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According to Alex Nowrasteh, an analyst at the right-libertarian Cato Institute, crime statistics from Texas show that immigrants there, both documented and undocumented, have lower conviction and ar…
By David L. Wilson, MR Online February 7, 2018 https://mronline.org/2018/02/07/the-latest-nonsense-about-immigration-a-quick-guide/ We’ve seen and heard a lot about immigration in the past few weeks…
Recent Polls, DACA/TPS Fallout, MS-13 Solution, Border Deaths Polls show Americans are closer to Democrats than Donald Trump on immigration Americans want to help DREAMers, don’t want a wall, and don…
When Deportation Is a Death Sentence Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. may face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return? Laura S. Photo:…
Two excellent articles from the mainstream to close out the year.—TPOI editor The Teens Trapped Between a Gang and the Law On Long Island, unaccompanied minors are caught between the violence of MS-1…
Didn't Postville workers' families suffer too? Photo: Stephen Mally/NY Times On December 20 President Trump commuted the 27-year prison sentence of former kosher meatpacking magnate Sholom R…
New York City Democratic Socialists of America ( NYC DSA ) has started an online petition to demand that New York Chief Judge DiFiore bar ICE from courthouses to prevent further detentions of immigra…
SOA Watch December 6, 2017 On November 29, 2017, Border Patrol agents from the Tucson Sector shot and killed a migrant in a remote region of the Baboquivari mountains on the Tohono O’odham Nation. Ro…
"ICE out of the courts": protest, Brooklyn Borough Hall. Photo: Phil Josselyn By Amanda Ottaway, Courthouse News Service December 7, 2017 BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CN) – A week after public defenders…
After six days of deliberation, on November 30 a San Francisco jury acquitted Mexican immigrant José Inez García Zárate of murder and manslaughter charges in the July 2015 shooting death of Kate Stei…
The Trump administration is forging ahead with its assault on immigrants. For example, White House chief of staff John Kelly, a man the New York Times once labeled “ sensible ,” continues to display…
This is what the White House wants in exchange for saving Dreamers from deportation By Anita Kumar, McClatchy DC Bureau September 26, 2017 WASHINGTON The White House is expected to ask Congress to a…
Lars Schall: 70 years ago, on September 18, 1947, the National Security Act created the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA. Douglas, you refer to the CIA as “the organized crime branch of the U.S. gove…
He lost his seat in Congress, his audacious bid to resurrect his career as mayor of New York City, and his high-profile marriage. And he undermined Hillary Clinton’s shot at the presidency in the clo…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents continue to detain immigrants in New York City courthouses. Go here for an earlier report.—TPOI editor ICE Agents Make Arrests at Brooklyn Courthouse Democr…
In December 2014, the ACLU requested the full investigative files on complaints filed by minors “in order to shed light on longstanding allegations of abusive treatment of children by Border Patrol.”…
By Josh Meyer, Politico September 1, 2017 One of the four companies picked by the Trump administration this week for its Mexico border wall prototype paid more than $3 million to settle a Justice Dep…
Whites living in and around diverse sanctuary cities are substantially less likely to die from violent death than anywhere else. By Mike Males, YES! Magazine August 22, 2017 The latest manifestation …
The White House is now cutting out part of the Central American Minors (CAM) program that the Obama administration set up in 2014 to admit some underage refugees fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guat…
