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10 Ways the Budget Reconciliation Bill’s Immigration Enforcement Funds Put Us All At Risk

10 Ways the Budget Reconciliation Bill’s Immigration Enforcement Funds Put Us All At Risk

Heidi Altman and Jennifer Whitlock

Apr 2, 2025 This explainer describes how a budget reconciliation bill will unlock the Trump administration’s ability to experiment with new and heightened authoritarian tactics through immigration enforcement, threatening basic constitutional rights and...

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    How ICE Uses Driver’s License Photos and DMV Databases

    How ICE Uses Driver’s License Photos and DMV Databases

    Joan Friedland

    Aug 6, 2019 Local, state, and federal law enforcement, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), have long relied on driver’s license databases to obtain information (such as addresses) about drivers and car owners. For many years, the...

    Updates on REAL ID and Increased Information Sharing by Departments of Motor Vehicles

    Updates on REAL ID and Increased Information Sharing by Departments of Motor Vehicles

    Joan Friedland

    Jan 4, 2018 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that, as of Jan. 22, 2018, airports may begin requiring travelers from certain states to present REAL ID–compliant driver’s...

    What Does it Mean That the Supreme Court Asked for the Solicitor General’s View on the Arizona DACA Driver’s License Case?

    What Does it Mean That the Supreme Court Asked for the Solicitor General’s View on the Arizona DACA Driver’s License Case?

    Jul 17, 2017 On June 26, 2017, the Supreme Court issued an invitation for the United States solicitor general to file a brief expressing the federal government’s view of our case Brewer v. Arizona Dream Act...

    New Lawsuit Challenges Arizona’s Discriminatory Denial of Licenses to Domestic Violence Survivors and Others

    New Lawsuit Challenges Arizona’s Discriminatory Denial of Licenses to Domestic Violence Survivors and Others

    Nicholas Espíritu

    Sep 14, 2016 Marcos had had an Arizona driver’s license for years, so he was shocked when he went to the Motor Vehicles Division (MVD) to renew it. Because Arizona would no longer accept his valid federal employment authorization document (EAD) as proof...