Austin Fisher, Source NM, Dec. 8, 2023 "When human waste flooded part of a U.S. immigration prison in central New Mexico last month, guards ordered incarcerated people to clean it up with their...
The Lever, Dec. 8, 2023 "As the country’s immigration agency ponders a significant expansion of its vast, troubled immigrant surveillance regime, private prison companies are telling investors...
Seth Freed Wessler, New York Times, Dec. 6, 2023 "People intercepted at sea, even in U.S. waters, have fewer rights than those who come by land. “Asylum does not apply at sea,” a Coast...
Alina Hernandez, Tulane University, Dec. 5, 2023 "A new report co-authored by Tulane Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic shows that more than 100,000 abused or abandoned immigrant youths are in...
Bipartisan Policy Center, Dec. 5, 2023 "In this week’s episode, BPC host Jack Malde chats with four distinguished immigration scholars at Cornell Law School on their new white paper “Immigration...
Melissa del Bosque, Nov. 7, 2023
"Despite his promises to not build “one more foot of wall,” President Joe Biden is now speeding ahead with a contract for 17 miles of new wall in rural Starr County, Texas. Border residents say they were stunned by the stealth $229 million contract issued to Sullivan Land Services Company (SLSCO), a Galveston-based firm. The deal was never publicly announced and was first reported by The Texas Observer on November 2. In Starr County, residents haven’t been notified that their properties are slated for new wall construction. And a map released online by Customs and Border Protection shows seven sections—from a half mile to two miles long—crudely drawn with a black marker, which makes it difficult for landowners to determine whether their property will be affected. ... "