The number of migrants dying while trying to cross the US-Mexico border is at an all-time high. But these figures are still likely an underestimate.
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A record 95,079 child migrants had arrived alone at the US’s southern border by July this year. The US is legally responsible for these children, but it is struggling to give them adequate care.
Children and families have been fleeing to the US in rising numbers for nearly a decade. So why is the current situation at the US-Mexico border being viewed as something new?
The U.S. wanted to use the coronavirus pandemic as a reason to send the military to its northern border. The idea is part of America’s desire to “Mexicanize” the world’s longest undefended border.
A 15-year-old fleeing violence in El Salvador came to the US in 1985. Her immigration case sparked a Supreme Court decision that would affect how authorities treat children in detention.
As part of a new ‘metering’ policy, US officials are turning asylum seekers away at ports of entry along the southern border. Thousands wait, straining the resources of Mexican border towns.
Searching a smartphone is different from searching luggage. Our smartphones carry our innermost thoughts, intimate pictures, sensitive workplace documents and private messages.
An immigration expert breaks through the alphabet soup of federal agencies responsible for enforcing immigration laws.
As searches of smartphones and other digital devices at US borders become more common, can research and computer science help protect travelers’ privacy?
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Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina
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Graduate Student Researcher at the Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Physician and Clinical Fellow in Health Policy and Social Emergency Medicine, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of Geography, Vassar College
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Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama; Institute for Humane Studies
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Associate Professor of the Practice, Texas A&M University
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DrPH Student in Prevention and Community Health; Licensed Clinical Social Worker, George Washington University
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Director of the Mexico Security Initiative, The University of Texas at Austin
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Fellow for the Middle East, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
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Professor of Computer Science, Elon University