
Corruption Behind Bars
The egregiously corruptthough technically legalsystem of private detention in the United States exploits immigrants, lining the pockets of jailers while ...

Punishing Lawfulness: Trump’s Assault on Authorized Migration
The Trump administration's crackdown on unauthorized immigration obscures his larger effort: to prevent lawful forms of immigration for migrants and ...

Trump and Immigration: A Crisis of His Own Making
Trump rides into the White house with a convulsive immigration plan dipped in a soup of nativism, Islamophobia, and anti-Mexican ...

The Corrections Industry’s Larger Footprint: Migrant Detention
Beyond trying to fix the migrant detention regime with incremental reforms, migrant rights' activists should demand the detention regime be ...

Rhetoric and Reflections on a Crisis
The media attention on last summers unprecedented influx of child migrants to the U.S. southern border gave airtime to arguments ...

Detained in Obscurity: The U.S. Immigrant Detention Regime
In March 2013 the New York Times reported that hundreds of immigrants detained throughout the United States were being ...