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A public opinion researcher explains why this group’s declining faith goes beyond partisanship and reflects a fundamental question about its sense of belonging.
Congress never built a path from temporary status to permanent residence, leaving many people facing deportation with little recourse.
Rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap federal funds during hard times.
Two new executive orders take aim at aspects of birthright citizenship the high court did not address in its June 2026 ruling.
Long before synthetic fertilizers, the global guano trade reshaped farming, fueled American expansion and exposed the hidden human costs of feeding the modern world.
Pointing to the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, the high court ruled that all babies born in the United States ‘are citizens by birth.’
The uncertainty of Haitian TPS status in the US is a significant source of stress for Haitian migrants, particularly women.
In many cases, a single, shocking crime allegedly involving a foreign-born suspect was quickly reframed into a broader indictment of minorities.
Limits on healthcare for undocumented women are reshaping pregnancy and family health.
Unless Congress acts, 1 in 5 Americans who receive Social Security could see an across-the-board benefit cut of roughly 22% starting in 2032.
The economic outlook for World Cup host cities isn’t looking good – but there’s still time to change that.
Contrary to the belief that an immigration crackdown would lead to more jobs for US-born workers, ICE enforcement hasn’t produced economic gains for Americans.
Latinos were the first Coloradans, and yet they are portrayed by the administration as intruders in an era of immigration enforcement.
Denaturalization risks becoming a tool of political control, creating a permanent vulnerability for more than 20 million naturalized Americans.
The Trump administration’s immigration detention policies appear to be, in part, inspired by the heavy-handed tactics of the former Arizona sheriff.
Trump promised to fix the economy, and that helped increase his Latino support in 2024. But the cost of living and ICE raids may be bringing Latinos back to the Democrats in 2026.
A new DHS policy could result in the detention of thousands of people who have lawful immigration status.
As immigration enforcement crackdowns expand across the US, communities can mobilize to lessen the public health impacts.
The growth of today’s aggressive immigration tactics traces back 25 years, when enforcement took on the dimension of counterterrorism.
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Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Professor, and Director, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law, Hofstra University
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Richter Professor Emerita of Political Science, Swarthmore College
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Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor, History and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Sociology and Chair, University of Colorado Boulder
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Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Law, University of California, Davis