Children can be especially vulnerable to being wrongly subjected to immigration enforcement actions.
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The 1929 immigration measure has become a focal point due to Trump’s crackdown on undocumented people, including families.
Why the government’s post-Brexit immigration proposals are particularly bad for women.
The U.S-Mexico border runs through Native American territories. A wall would further divide these communities, separating children from schools, farmers from water and families from each other.
Changes to immigration rules have left migrants without family and friends in the UK trapped in immigration detention – despite being granted bail.
Australia’s immigration department doesn’t keep a record of the number of people applying for asylum at airports. This means there is no oversight over the treatment of those seeking protection.
This help is often given in kind rather than in dollars and cents. Without it, these migrants might have nowhere to go and nothing to eat.
Britain’s system of internal immigration enforcement is not working.
The UK government presents itself as a pioneer in tackling modern slavery, but it doesn’t allow victims to remain legally in the UK. Time is apt for the system to be overhauled.
Details have been published of how EU citizens in the UK can apply for ‘settled status’ after Brexit. But it may have some teething problems.
Trump hopes migrants won’t come if they know their children will be taken away. That grim logic ignores the inescapable dangers that drive thousands of Central Americans to flee their homes each year.
Interviews with hundreds of unaccompanied minors in Los Angeles reveal that relationships with US sponsors can be complicated.
Kids often experience anxiety when separated from parents for short periods. Longer separations, happening with some immigrant children, is a different matter, a leading child psychiatrist explains.
Citizenship is increasingly becoming something that must be ‘earned’, but this undermines basic rights.
An immigration law expert on what it’s like to navigate the UK’s hostile environment.
Even if their partners or children are British, non-European men with precarious immigration status face potentially permanent separations from their families.
A scholar explains why the president’s plan to overturn his predecessor’s rule would be a big mistake and disproportionately harm women.
In 1921 the US imposed strict immigration quotas on Australians and detained the excess arrivals in terrible conditions. Contrast this with today’s treatment of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.
It is becoming harder and harder to access legal aid for immigration cases.
Trump’s decision to end the DACA program, as well as his support for a bill that would drastically curb legal immigration, would hurt the US workers he says he’s trying to help.
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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Professor and Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Social Studies Education, College of Charleston
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Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies & Baker Institute Political Science Fellow, Rice University
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law, Hofstra University
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Professor of Law, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Law, Temple University
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Founding Director, Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross