When a child loses mom or dad to deportation, the harm can be severe and lasting. New immigration bills in the House and Senate seek to avoid family separation and allow deported parents back home.
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At least 92 US military veterans were deported between 2013 and 2018. These deportees are not currently included in Biden’s effort to reunite families as part of his new immigration reform plan.
Some school districts are starting to remove police. A team of researchers explains why that could be a welcome trend.
About 48% of Latino US citizens fear deportation for themselves, their loved ones or their communities. That’s up from 41% in 2007.
The United States is at risk of lacking data from more than 10 million undocumented immigrants in the 2020 census.
The number of migrants living in churches has spiked recently in anticipation of threatened immigration raids, but churches have long protected refugees in an act of faith-based civil disobedience.
Deportees and other migrants return home wealthier, more educated and with more work experience than people who never left. This ‘brain gain’ benefits the whole community, financially and politically.
Trump has expanded and escalated the most punitive policies he inherited from his predecessors.
Changes to Australian immigration law have resulted in a sharp increase in deportations, particularly among New Zealanders of Maori and Pacific Island descent.
The new NHS charging regime will have a severe impact on the most vulnerable people in society.
Simply based on how they are housed, forcibly separating immigrant kids from their families is bound to make a bad situation worse.
What kind of a country is Canada? One which truly welcomes and respects immigrants and their lives and safety? Or one which just says it does but brutally detains and deports them?
Conservatives on migration claim that allowing the DACA recipients to stay shows disrespect for the law. The moral principles that underlie the American legal system, however, tell a different story.
An anthropologist went to Mexico and interviewed more than 50 people who were deported. It was like being sent to the moon, they told him.
Deportations of EU nationals in the UK have risen by 20%, despite EU laws protecting their rights.
Three stories show how today’s deportations are reminiscent of what immigrants experienced during immigration raids under President Obama.
In 1954, US Border Patrol’s Operation Wetback promised to deport millions of undocumented Mexicans. It fell far short of its target, but made a mark in the minds of immigrants who lived in fear.
Trump’s orders on deportations and immigration enforcement signal a hard-line approach without consideration for important factors in the lives of migrants.
Following through on campaign promises to forcibly evict several million illegal immigrants, Trump has set in motion a plan to deport those with criminal records. But doing so won’t come cheap.
Donald Trump has done what decades of American feminism could not: unite women worldwide in solidarity.
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Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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President, Dickinson College
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Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
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Dean of Law, Australian Catholic University
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Senior researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Reader in Sociology, City St George's, University of London
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Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Cultural Relations, American University School of International Service
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Deputy Director, Global Migration Center, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico
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Associate Professor of English, University of California, Irvine
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Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Founding Director, Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Penn State
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Clinical Professor, School of Law, Boston University