Maurizio Guerrero, Prism, Oct. 2, 2024 "Hundreds of unaccompanied migrant children are incorrectly placed each year in adult immigration detention centers in the U.S. due to the illegal use of dental...
Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact, Oct. 3, 2024 "Temporary Protected Status and humanitarian parole do not provide people a pathway to citizenship. So, people with humanitarian parole or Temporary...
CMS: The Untold Story: Migrant Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border and Beyond October 16, 2024 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (ET) The Journal on Migration and Human Security will soon release a special edition...
Angelo Paparelli, Manish Daftari, Oct. 3, 2024 "Recent developments have upended many of our earlier predictions of the likely post-election immigration landscape in the United States. These include...
Reece Jones, Oct. 2, 2024 "“Open borders” has become an epithet that Republican use to attack Democrats, blaming many problems in the United States on the lack of attention to the border...
In the July 4, 2004 issue of Bender's Immigration Bulletin I published this essay. As we head into the long weekend...and an even longer 2024 election cycle in which immigration will loom large...it might be useful to review how we got here. Here are the opening and closing paragraphs:
"If legislation could take out personal ads, the most forlorn entry would read: "CIR Seeks PLS": Comprehensive Immigration Reform seeks Perfect Legislative Storm. ... The next round of (positive) comprehensive immigration reform will require a perfect storm with the following elements: presidential leadership willing to stand up to the restrictionist Right; congressional compromise (as exemplified by AgJobs) demonstrating a preference for action over posturing; and an educated public willing to accept a more rational immigration system as the price for abolishing what is, in effect, a national “plantation” system, with 10 million human beings acting as our less-than-equal servants. Flashing back to 1965, LBJ and the last (positive) perfect legislative storm calls to mind another gem from that year, Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues: “...I’m on the pavement, thinkin’ ‘bout the government.”