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The recently shuttered immigrant detention facility continued a long tradition of using alligators in ways that have reinforced demeaning racial stereotypes.
The economic outlook for World Cup host cities isn’t looking good – but there’s still time to change that.
At least 15 Florida state universities and colleges have signed agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that authorize campus police to carry out immigration enforcement.
After the government acquired a warehouse in PA to expand ICE operations, questions are mounting about transparency, cost and government real estate transactions.
For body cameras to function as transparency tools, wrongdoing would have to be consistently penalized, highlighting the consequences of noncompliance.
Children with a parent or family member who is detained, or are part of a drawn-out immigration court case, are twice as likely to have anxiety as young adults.
While federal immigrant agents need to produce a judicial warrant to enter a classroom, they can freely operate in public spaces at and around schools.
In a new book based on hours of body-cam footage, a legal scholar shows how local police in sanctuary jurisdictions still help ICE − and why true non-cooperation is nearly impossible to enforce.
President Donald Trump and his supporters cast their domestic opponents as disloyal, traitorous or worse, rather than seeing dissent as part of democracy.
Government agencies are contracting with Palantir to correlate disparate pieces of data, promising efficiency but raising civil liberties concerns.
The Sanctuary Movement emerged amid a restrictive US asylum process and as the Reagan administration refused to acknowledge the extent of human rights violations in the region.
White Americans, especially older citizens, tend to be more bothered than Black Americans or Latinos by demonstrators waving Mexican flags – and even US flags – during protests.
The 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act gives ICE broad power, including the right to arrest many noncitizens. The extent of this power is now being tested.
Last year, at least 686 migrants died trying to cross into the US from Mexico. Many had the option to call 911 but were too afraid of detection and deportation to seek help.
A new report on Mexicans in the US paints a troubling picture about the treatment of the country’s largest immigrant group.
Britain’s system of internal immigration enforcement is not working.
Some 200 Central Americans who fled violence at home want to apply for asylum in the US. Trump says they’re ‘not welcome.’ Here, key info on the ‘caravan’ to the US-Mexico border.
Three stories show how today’s deportations are reminiscent of what immigrants experienced during immigration raids under President Obama.
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Senior Research Director (IMIS, Osnabrueck), Head of Migration Department (DeZIM, Berlin), Research Affiliate (COMPAS, Oxford), Osnabrück University
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Lecturer at Ukrainian Catholic University and Research Associate at South East European Studies, University of Oxford
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Professor, University of California, Merced
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Adjunct Professor of Law, Rutgers University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Fellow and Graduate Researcher at Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego
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Graduate Researcher at Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego
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Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego
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Associate Professor of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor, University at Albany, State University of New York
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PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
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Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, UMass Boston
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Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar; Director, Center for Immigrant Justice, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico
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Associate Professor, School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State University