Robert Brodsky, Newsday, Aug. 23, 2024 "The number of new court cases involving immigrants lacking permanent legal status has plummeted on Long Island and around the country since President Joe...
On Aug. 19, 2024 DHS "announced a Federal Register notice to implement Keeping Families Together, a process for certain noncitizen spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens. This is part of an effort...
LAW-ABIDING IMMIGRANTS: THE INCARCERATION GAP BETWEEN IMMIGRANTS AND THE US-BORN, 1870–2020 "We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration...
Kate Sosin, The 19th, Aug. 21, 2024 "[A] new report, “ No Human Being Should Be Held Here ,” claims that nearly a third of *** detainees interviewed (18 out of 41) were sexually assaulted...
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Dara Lind, Vox, Apr. 11, 2019
"...What’s happening at the border is the result of a regional crisis in which — if current rates continue — close to 1 percent of the entire population of Guatemala and Honduras will attempt to immigrate to the US this year. The Mexican government, meanwhile, is vacillating between humanitarian rhetoric and militarized crackdowns, US border officials are openly begging for help, and Trump himself is throwing the mother of all temper tantrums.
Trump’s threats will likely cause massive collateral damage throughout North America and aren’t even likely to stop people from arriving at the US-Mexico border — his stated goal. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a problem here, or even a crisis. It just means it’s not one that’s going to be solved anytime soon...."