Analysis of border apprehension numbers does not provide any evidence that the 2015 Flores court ruling increased the number of families arriving at the border.
The federal 287(g) immigration program has expanded significantly under the Trump administration, with ICE and local law enforcement agencies failing to ensure that proper public oversight is possible.
The Trump administration is prolonging the custody of an unprecedented number of immigrant children—and taking money from important programs to pay for it.
If DACA ends, recipients across the country will be at risk of losing their access to driver’s licenses, affordable higher education, and occupational licenses—but states can help protect them.
Immigrants are playing a key role in reviving and growing many rural communities and with the right policies could play an even bigger role in sustaining them.
The eight state attorneys general and two governors suing to terminate DACA are not considering the negative consequences of their efforts on their respective states.
A survey of DACA beneficiaries finds the program has had an outsize effect on participants, their families, and the U.S. economy as a whole—even as recipients face uncertainty about the future.
A nationwide injunction could spell the end of the DACA program that protects young immigrants.
Forcing women and LGBTQ immigrants to return to Mexico and Central America could put them in grave danger.
This column identifies the consequences of Trump’s redefined public-charge test for disabled immigrants’ health and safety.
Statistical analysis of data on southwest border apprehensions illustrates that policies of family separation and detention will not deter families from coming to the United States.
More than 100 million people in the United States—about one-third of the population—would fail Trump’s public charge test if they had to take it.
Bold anti-corruption solutions could help curb the huge power that the private prison industry has over immigration detention issues.
Spending any amount of time in family detention is detrimental to children’s mental, physical, and emotional health.
Private prison companies—which often do not operate in immigrants’ best interests and have donated large sums of money to President Trump—stand to make billions of dollars from the administration’s policy.