DREAM Advocates Begin a 3,000-mile March from California to Washington
Jose Gonzalez was born in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1987, but he has called California home for almost all of his 25 years. A community college graduate, as well as a…
Read MorePosted by Travis Wentworth | Mar 23, 2012 | Legislation, Reform
Jose Gonzalez was born in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1987, but he has called California home for almost all of his 25 years. A community college graduate, as well as a…
Read MorePosted by Walter Ewing | Jun 3, 2019 | Asylum, Border Enforcement, Economics, Enforcement, Humanitarian Protection
…a large portion of U.S.-Mexico trade consists of parts and raw materials from one country that are used in production and assembly operations in the other country, tariffs on Mexico…
Read MorePosted by Michele Waslin | Jul 27, 2009 | Demographics, Enforcement, Interior Enforcement, Reform
…authority to take that individual into custody. According to the report, these arrests are based on racial or ethnic profiling. Finally, the authors also found that ICE was illegally searching…
Read MorePosted by Mary Giovagnoli | Mar 2, 2010 | Enforcement, Humanitarian Protection, Reform
…be used to prosecute more serious criminals. DHS is also expanding partnerships with state and local law enforcement agencies (Secure Communities and 287(g) programs) in their search for “criminal aliens.”…
Read MorePosted by Katie Shepherd | Oct 12, 2020 | Detention, Enforcement, How the Immigration System Works
…when faced with a complex and terrifying immigration system. Being able to understand and communicate can mean the difference between life and death in immigration detention. Lack of language services…
Read MorePosted by Tory Johnson | Oct 15, 2020 | Abuses, Border Enforcement, Enforcement, Humanitarian Protection
…to demand CBP’s records related to this and previous raids. The request seeks footage CBP may have recorded during the events, agency communications, and search warrants requested or received. The…
Read MorePosted by Wendy Feliz | Jun 19, 2017 | Border Enforcement, Enforcement, Humanitarian Protection
…emergencies. Often migrants get lost and are poorly equipped for the treacherous journey, succumbing to the desert heat and exhaustion. As a result, in 2004 a coalition of community groups…
Read MorePosted by Tory Johnson | Jan 24, 2018 | Economics, Legislation, State and Local, State by State
…While the majority of these proposals sought to ban so-called “sanctuary” policies, only four such measures passed: Texas’ controversial Senate Bill 4, passed by the legislature in May 2017, sought…
Read MorePosted by Walter Ewing | Oct 18, 2016 | Border Enforcement
…York Times story on the prospect of a U.S.-Mexico border wall found that “the closer you get to the border, the fewer people think that it might work—even among Trump…
Read MorePosted by Walter Ewing | Apr 24, 2012 | Demographics, Economics, Enforcement
Net migration from Mexico to the United States, both legal and illegal, now stands at zero—or less. In other words, the number of migrants coming here from Mexico is equal…
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