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In four days at the end of July, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained 650 immigrants in the agency’s largest series of raids since it made 680 arrests in February. Focused on the biza…
The president of the United States is explicitly encouraging police violence. By Dara Lind, Vox July 28, 2017 In a speech to law enforcement officials in Long Island on Friday, the president of the U…
Officials and politicians naturally expressed shock and horror at the deaths of 10 migrants crammed into a sweltering tractor-trailer in San Antonio the night of July 22. The political class blamed h…
Nearly four decades later, we rounded up some less familiar details about the case: The news media called the gunman the .44-caliber killer — for his weapon of choice — until he left a note at the si…
This blog post by Alex Nowrasteh, an analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, presents an important response to claims about a supposed “illegal alien crime wave.” In 2015 Fox News tried to counter…
Northern Mexican cities are among the hemisphere's most violent. Across the border, it's a different story. Border fence between San Diego and Tijuana. Public domain. By Juan Carlos Garzón-Ve…
ICE continues its practice in New York of detaining immigrants when they make scheduled court appearances. In the latest case, ICE agents were spotted waiting near a special court intended to hel…
Trump With Stolen Lives Families. Photo: AP Victims of immigrant crime say they were taken advantage of by Trump and a non-profit group backing him. By Kenneth P. Vogel, Politico June 1, 2017 More th…
ICE agents apparently aren't welcome in New York City. They detained a Guyanese man in Queens’ Richmond Hill neighborhood on May 30 as he was heading to Kew Gardens for a court appearance, but t…
Tea Partier Labrador. (Kyle Mills/Lewiston Tribune) From the Immigration Action Bulletin Number 15 May 19, 2017 Welcome to the “Anti-Immigrant Wish List” edition of the Bulletin. Last week, with …
Trump administration arbitrarily revoked DACA status of Jessica Colotl By American Civil Liberties Union May 23, 2017 Jessica Colotl, Photo: Democracy Now! NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Uni…
“As a leader in the UndocuBlack Network, an organization comprised of and advocating for currently and previously undocumented Black immigrants, I find USCIS’s investigation very troubling, even crim…
Anthony D. Weiner, the former Democratic congressman whose sexting scandals ended his political career and embroiled him in a tumultuous F.B.I. investigation of Hillary Clinton before the election, p…
The second edition of The Politics of Immigration is due out in a little more than a week, but we’ve already started facilitating events and making additions to our blog and our website . We’re …
Most news coverage of unauthorized border crossing operates on the assumption that the act is obviously a crime and always has been. Actually, it didn’t become a crime until 1929. UCLA history profes…
Exile from one’s home is historically considered one of the worst punishments the state could employ; it was, after all, one of the traditional Greek and Roman punishments for murder, their alternati…
By Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker April 18, 2017 Ever since Donald Trump became President, mayors and city council members in “sanctuary cities”—places where local law-enforcement officials limit th…
Donald Trump tweeted at 5:39 a.m. on April 18 that the spread of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) resulted from weak immigration enforcement under Obama. The gang is actually a homegrown product whose power …
Among the right’s favorite talking points are claims that “illegals” are “swarming over the border” and “sanctuary cities” are “breeding crime.” The anti-immigrant forces never present evidence, for …
While the media remain focused on Syria and Russia, the Trump administration is signaling its intention to step up the repression of immigrants—and maybe their supporters as well. Yesterday Attorney …
