NIJ, Sept. 12, 2024 "[U]ndocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for...
Paromita Shah (she/her) at Just Futures Law writes: "Enclosed is a letter signed by over 140 tech, immigrant rights, labor, civil rights, government accountability, human rights, religious and privacy...
Bill De La Rosa and Zachary Neilson-Papish, Sept. 10, 2024 "The language we use to describe people living in the United States without authorization can reveal our political positions on immigration...
ABA, Sept. 6, 2024 "**Please note the Family Unity Parole in Place as part of the Keeping Families Together program is currently being litigated. The videos and Toolkit are current as of their publication...
UCLA Law, Aug. 2024 " This excerpt is the Introduction to: Hiroshi Motomura , Borders and Belonging (Oxford University Press forthcoming early 2025). Borders and Belonging is a comprehensive yet...
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Dec. 6, 2022
"In 2008, I wrote about the first border walls built after 9/11 in Texas, and over the last 15 years I’ve continued to document walls, walls, and more border walls under every president since George W. Bush. But Governor Doug Ducey’s double-decker shipping container wall is altogether something next level. And it is being built illegally through the Coronado National Forest at breakneck speed by a Florida disaster remediation firm, which is ironic if you think about it. If you want to call it a wall. I was not prepared for what I was about to see when I arrived at the construction site last Tuesday: A slapped together—a friend called it scrap-dash—collection of rusting shipping containers topped with razor wire. In many places the old boxcars are jammed together leaving huge gaps, which the contractors have tried to weld together with scraps of aluminum. I was so alarmed, I posted a few photos I took at the site on Twitter. The tweet went viral. More than one million people have seen these photos, which is mind boggling. The most common comment—even from MAGA folks—has been “This is a joke, right? Is this real?” ..."
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Please read the entire article. Major failure by the mainstream media (so far) in covering this story. Massive kudos to Melissa del Bosque and other independent journalists and everyday citizens for shining a light.]