Ling Tat for the Orange County Register provides information on more than two dozen immigration-related bills are making their way through the California legislative process: "Some would make it harder for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or U.S. Border Patrol agents to operate in California or aim
NEW YORK CITY, NY — The NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic (“IRC”) today released Debt and the Deportation Agenda: Immigration Fines under the Second Trump Administration. The report exposes the harms of the second Trump Administration’s civil fines program, which has imposed more than $84 billion in massive, unpayable debts on
Immigration remains a stronger issue for President Donald Trump than the economy or Iran, according to a new AP-NORC poll, even after three people were killed in encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in one week in July. The new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
An NPR review of court records reveals how the Department of Justice is using a statute to bring forth charges of conspiracy to impede or injure an officer. Since Trump took office last year, the department has charged more than three dozen people. All of the cases involve people protesting
Phoebe Huss for CalMatters reports on what appears to be successful student activism. Students and faculty at UC San Diego protested against campus police for collaborating with Border Patrol through a federal grant program. The university will stop participating in the program and aiding patrols.
Immigration arrests at airports have been on the rise. As for the latest in TSA-ICE collaboration news, American Oversight published a previously undisclosed agreement between the two agencies that is likely a driving force behind airport arrests nationwide, according to reports from immigration lawyers and ICE sources.
CBS News reports that detentions hit a monthly record high for the second Trump administration in July with over 46,000 arrests: "The statistics, which have not yet been publicly disclosed by the federal government, show that a summer enforcement surge by ICE continued to intensify in July, as
FROM ACLU Press Release: "In recent weeks ICE has killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine, following the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. Dozens more people have died in ICE's detention centers. Federal law enforcement are
As I've written before, our country's crap treatment of Afghan wartime allies sends me through the roof. I'm not the only one. MS NOW (the weird re-brand of MSNBC) has an opinion piece from Jason Houser, former chief of staff for ICE. Every word
I'm pleased to share one of my most recent articles: From Militarization to Military Enforcement: The U.S. Armed Forces and Immigration Control in the Second Trump Administration forthcoming in the Kentucky Law Journal. Here's the abstract: The U.S. Armed Forces have taken an unprecedented
Mexican Immigrants in the United States By Andres Ayala and Jeanne Batalova Mexican immigrants remain the largest foreign-born group in the United States, but their numbers are down. The U.S. Mexican-born population has fallen modestly from a 2007 peak of more than 11.7 million. Mexican immigrants are concentrated
Although the data shows a different story, the Trump administration claims to be focused on removing the "worst of the worst." Now, the administration claims that the "Worst of the worst" judges are sabotaging its immigration agenda. As reported by Fox News, "DHS General Counsel