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    More Spending on Border Will Secure Only More Suffering

    More Spending on Border Will Secure Only More Suffering

    Holly Straut-Eppsteiner

    Published Jan 30, 2019 After a catastrophic and unprecedented government shutdown, lawmakers are convening this week to negotiate a border security plan amid persistent threats from the president that he might shut the government down again three weeks from now. The...

    Trump-McConnell Bill Is an Anti-Immigrant Wish List

    Trump-McConnell Bill Is an Anti-Immigrant Wish List

    Avideh Moussavian, Patrick O’Shea, and Holly Straut-Eppsteiner

    Published Jan 23, 2019 For over a month, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader McConnell have remained at the helm of what is by far the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Both Trump and McConnell are responsible for holding the paychecks of...

    Trump’s Wall Demands Hurt People Already Hurting the Most

    Trump’s Wall Demands Hurt People Already Hurting the Most

    Holly Straut-Eppsteiner

    Published Jan 14, 2019

    Senate Must Not Confirm Nominee Who Disregards the Rights of the Most Vulnerable

    Senate Must Not Confirm Nominee Who Disregards the Rights of the Most Vulnerable

    Jessie Hahn, Patrick O’Shea, and Josh Rosenthal

    Published Sep 13, 2018

    Information Vacuuming: Massive Collection of Data for Government’s Surveillance and Deportation Machine

    Information Vacuuming: Massive Collection of Data for Government’s Surveillance and Deportation Machine

    Joan Friedland

    Published Aug 22, 2018

    Questions Remain Weeks After Trump Administration Fails to Reunite Children and Parents

    Questions Remain Weeks After Trump Administration Fails to Reunite Children and Parents

    Published Aug 14, 2018 President Trump’s family separation policy has harmed about 2,500 migrant children over the past several months, and serious questions remain about how the administration is treating immigrant families once they are...

    Should I renew my DACA now?

    Should I renew my DACA now?

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Aug 7, 2018 Lately people have been asking, Why the uptick in chatter about renewing DACA now? Starting this summer, advocates began encouraging people to renew as soon as possible, even though the option to renew has been around since...

    Where Are the Children? Not in Trump’s Priorities

    Where Are the Children? Not in Trump’s Priorities

    Published Jun 26, 2018

    Untangling Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda

    Untangling Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda

    Published Jun 15, 2018 Since its colonization of indigenous lands, the United States has built its immigration policies on principles of racial exclusion and exploitation. The immigration struggles that our communities face today are not unique to the Trump...

    What to Look for in Any “DACA Solution”

    What to Look for in Any “DACA Solution”

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Jun 14, 2018

    What Does the Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling Mean for Immigrant Communities?

    What Does the Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling Mean for Immigrant Communities?

    Josh Rosenthal

    Published Jun 5, 2018

    The Promise of America?

    The Promise of America?

    Published May 8, 2018 Early in the morning late last month, while it was drizzling, cold, and still a little dark, I stood with a dozen others on the steps of this country’s highest court feeling a lot of anxiety and some hope as I waited in line to get a seat for...

    3 Important Points to Know about Texas’s DACA Lawsuit

    3 Important Points to Know about Texas’s DACA Lawsuit

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published May 4, 2018 On May 1, 2018, Texas and six other states filed a lawsuit against the federal government challenging the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. They filed the case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern...

    Government’s Supreme Court Argument Tries to Divorce from Trump’s Own Words and Record His Ban on Travel from Muslim-majority Countries

    Government’s Supreme Court Argument Tries to Divorce from Trump’s Own Words and Record His Ban on Travel from Muslim-majority Countries

    Esther Sung

    Published Apr 25, 2018

    Trump’s Ban As Experienced by Yemeni-Americans

    Trump’s Ban As Experienced by Yemeni-Americans

    Published Apr 25, 2018