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...
If we call those who come to the U.S. illegally “illegal aliens,” why don’t we call those who employ them illegally “illegal employers”? Why don’t...
When the Trump administration started incarcerating all undocumented immigrants, regardless of the degree of risk they posed to public safety, all...
If you went to school in America, or at least grew up watching American TV, you know the theory: the U.S. government has three co-equal branches —...
Two years ago, I started this monthly column dedicated to immigration and incarceration by writing about the Amherst-Pelham Regional School...
Although the U.S. does not usually allow its residents to “adopt a refugee,” it does have one emergency procedure that might make it possible for...
Four main things cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally: drugs, undocumented immigrants, dirty money and guns. We hear all the time about the first...
There may be no better example out there of the power of words than the way American immigration authorities deploy the “migrant“/“refugee” pair of...
When you deny a minority group access to housing, to education, to the labor market, and to political opportunity, you’re not only infringing on...