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Face Recognition and Driver’s License Photo–Sharing
Published Oct 1, 2019 This resource provides information about ICE’s use of DMV photos and states’ face-recognition technology for immigration enforcement as well as some steps that states can take to restrict access to photos in their DMV databases and to limit...
New DACA Survey Results Confirm Gains for Recipients, Highlight Risks of Uncertainty as Cases Head to the Supreme Court
Published Sep 25, 2019 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has provided approximately 825,000 immigrant youth with work permits and temporary protection from deportation since 2012. In September 2017, the Trump administration announced it was rescinding...
I spent a week at the border with families seeking asylum. Here’s what they’re facing.
Published Sep 13, 2019 Last week I was sitting on the floor of a stiflingly hot building in Tijuana with an 18-month-old girl. We were scribbling in a coloring book. She was sprawled on her stomach with a concentrated look on her tiny face, handing each crayon back...
How ICE Blurs the Line between Enforcement of Civil Immigration Violations and Enforcement of Criminal Laws
Published Aug 27, 2019 When Congress heads back to Washington, DC, after its long August recess, it will resume the ongoing debate over how many taxpayer dollars the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should be allocated to do its work. Much of that debate...
3 Things You Should Know about Trump’s Immigration Wealth Test
Published Aug 20, 2019 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently published its final set of regulations on “public charge,” which amount to a racially-motivated wealth test on immigrant families and individuals pursuing a healthy, stable future in...
How ICE Uses Driver’s License Photos and DMV Databases
Published 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...
HUD’s “Mixed-Status” Rule Is the Latest Attack on the Immigrant Community
Published Jul 8, 2019 From family separations at the border to a proposed “public charge” rule that would punish immigrant families for using health, housing, and nutrition programs, the Trump administration has been issuing policies that strike fear within...
One Year After the SCOTUS Ruling: Understanding the Muslim Ban and How We’ll Keep Fighting It
Published Jun 23, 2019 The report, designed to raise awareness of the Muslim ban and its harmful effects, reviews the four versions of the ban, the flawed waiver system, its direct and collateral impacts, and concludes with the No Muslim Ban Ever Campaign’s future...
Hard Work by Brave People Made House Passage of the Dream and Promise Act Possible, but Much Work Remains
Published Jun 7, 2019 The coming-of-age experience of someone with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), like me, is very different from that of someone who is fully undocumented. Though my family did have to come up with an almost prohibitive sum of money...
Lessons from East Tennessee: A Toolkit for Organizations Responding to Mass Worksite Immigration Raids
Published May 29, 2019 This resource is designed for advocates to respond immediately when ICE conducts a worksite raid in their community.
Trump Demands Border Wall in the Face of Evidence Documenting Harms to Migrants, Border Communities, and the Environment
Published May 7, 2019 In February, President Trump declared a national emergency so that he could allocate $6.7 billion in taxpayer dollars, without congressional appropriation, to construct more wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. In February, a 16-state coalition...
Funding for ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Is Funding for Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda
Published Apr 29, 2019 As the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies have increasingly come under scrutiny, Homeland Security Investigations has played a significant role in carrying out brutal tactics to target immigrants for...
Research Shows a Citizenship Question Would Suppress Participation among Latinxs and Immigrants in the 2020 Census, Undermining Its Reliability
Published Apr 22, 2019 The U.S. Constitution requires a decennial census of all persons living in the country, and our nation has carried out this duty since 1790. Specifically, the census must count all people living in the U.S. and record where they live. These...
Worksite Immigration Raids Terrorize Workers and Communities Now, and Their Devastating Consequences Are Long-Term
Published Apr 11, 2019 Early in the Trump administration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials promised to increase worksite enforcement actions that specifically target immigrant workers. Subsequently, raids conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs...
Home Is Here, and We’re Here to Stay
Diana Pliego
Published Oct 25, 2019 Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in three consolidated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) cases. But it will be doing more than that. Its deliberation, on any scale, is a debate over whether I and hundreds...