Some states are trying to challenge a long-held precedent that undocumented children are allowed to attend public school free of charge.
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An unprecedented occupational health study on takeaway delivery workers in France reveals shocking working conditions amid Europe-wide debate on their entitlement to standard employee rights.
The Heritage Foundation released a policy document in February 2026 that spells out how states can try to challenge a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that enshrined immigrant students’ right to attend school.
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.
Educators must obey the law, meaning schools cannot impede a criminal investigation. But students and teachers have rights, too.
Lawful permanent residents hold many of the same rights that US citizens have, but the government can deport them on certain, often vague, security grounds.
Biden’s executive action will shield approximately 500,000 undocumented spouses of US citizens, as well as 50,000 children, from deportation and give them the legal right to stay in the US.
More than 11 million migrants who lack papers live in the United States, and many of them are ineligible for health coverage.
Discontinuing expanded health-care funding will result in less prenatal care for uninsured patients, more health risks, higher costs to the health system, and moral distress for health-care providers.
The U.S. has promised to take in 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. But there is concern that this could further complicate efforts to welcome and resettle Afghan evacuees.
The federal government must make good on its throne speech language about making it easier for migrant workers to formally become Canadian by instituting a comprehensive regularization plan.
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Associate Professor of Social Studies Education, College of Charleston
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Research Fellow, Center for Racial Justice, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor, Midwifery Education Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Senior Professorial Lecturer of Global Governance, Politics and Security, American University School of International Service
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Criminal Law, Immigration, and Race and Law, University of California, Davis
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Assistant Professor of Policy and Educational Leadership, University of Michigan
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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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Ingénieur d'étude, économie et statistiques, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Chargée de recherche en démographie de la santé, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)
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Directrice de recherche, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Chargé de Recherche, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)
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Directrice de recherche, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
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Assistant Professor of History, University of North Florida