Monthly Archives: March 2019

Research and analysis on immigration doesn’t get as much air time as political rhetoric. Today—take a look at two insightful articles that tackle issues of immigration policy failures and disparate treatment of citizens and non-citizens in federal prisons.

Without fanfare and without Congressional approval, the Trump administration is shutting down legal immigration. In one visible move, it plans to shut down U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) abroad. Less visible moves have already dramatically reduced legal immigration: cutting … Continue reading →

Today House Democrats introduce HR 6, the Dream & Promise Act, offering a path to citizenship for people with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). These people have lived in the … Continue reading →

“It is important to recognize that we are talking about human beings,” Judge Sabraw said at a hearing in February, “that every person needs to be accounted for.” Turns out the Trump administration was taking children away from immigrant parents … Continue reading →

Remember COINTELPRO? According to official records, “The FBI began COINTELPRO—short for Counterintelligence Program—in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, … Continue reading →

The Trump administration’s “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP), which bear as much relation to protecting migrants as Trump’s Twitter stream does to reasoned discourse, have been in effect for nearly a month now. “Remain in Mexico” is a more common, and … Continue reading →

From toddlers crying in the cold as they wait for hours on the border to the dangers that asylum seekers fled to pregnant women held by ICE without adequate medical care, immigration horror stories abound. Hope comes from the helpers, … Continue reading →

They are children, babies even, the youngest under a year old. They are held in immigration detention in Texas. RAICES says there are “more than two dozen” in the Karnes Detention Center. The American Immigration Council, American Immigration Lawyers Association … Continue reading →