Undoing Trump-Era Policies is Not Enough to Transform the Immigration System
The Biden and López Obrador administrations should take the lead from solidarity organizations in the U.S. and Mexico and decriminalize ...
The Deportation Machine (Review)
Goodman provides insight into today’s crises, by documenting the history of three mechanisms of expulsion: formal deportation, voluntary departure (“return”), ...
Abolish ICE! Fighting for Humanity over Profit in Immigration Policy
No extent of reform can humanize an agency designed to criminalize migrants, deny their humanity, and profit off their detention ...
When Will Immigration Policy Include Undocumented Parents?
Despite the trauma of family separation, current immigration policy leaves out parents whose children can legally stay in the United ...
How Deportation Created A New Class Of Disposable Soldiers
The Department of Homeland Security has deported thousands of U.S. military veterans in recent years, giving new meaning to the ...
Immigrant Detention in the United States: Hope and Change, or More of the Same?
While the Obama administration is touting its new immigration detention guidelines and showing off the federal government’s new detention facility ...
Who Killed Joaquin Luna?
Last Friday, 18-year-old Joaquin Luna shot and killed himself in south Texas. Luna, an unauthorized immigrant who had lived in ...
Children as Collateral Damage
A new report illustrates the tragic intersection of immigration policing and child welfare. Like the "collateral damage" brought about about ...