While the vast majority of Americans have long given up on preventing the spread of COVID-19, the Biden administration has found it convenient to...
For three months now, I have been writing a series of columns about the myths, misunderstandings and disinformation surrounding the issue of...
“But, uncle,” you say, “your own great-grandmother was an immigrant! If she hadn’t come to America, we wouldn’t be here!”“Sure, but she came the...
When Trump kicked off his presidential campaign in 2015 by talking about how Mexico is “sending” us immigrants who are cold-blooded criminals, I...
For more than two years now, my MO for this column has been this: I pick a topic related to incarceration or immigration that I think is important...
As the Biden administration is preparing to confront yet another crisis at the southern border (https://politi.co/3G1bRJB), the anti-immigrant...
As with rising crime or environmental degradation, immigration crises are complicated social, political and economic phenomena that have no easy...
It’s a simple, rock-solid democratic principle: If the laws of a community (especially taxation and policing) affect you and your family over a...
I would have a much easier time debating immigration-related issues with the so-called immigration-skeptic crowd if their case wasn’t so often...
An estimated 70 million Americans have a criminal record. They’ve committed a crime sometime in their past and, when they’ve satisfied the terms of...
Systemic problems require systemic solutions. If the country has at long last realized that the war on drugs, the school-to-prison pipeline, the...
Almost exactly 10 years ago, having failed to persuade enough Republicans in Congress to pass the DREAM Act, President Obama signed an executive...