Allyson Hobbs and Ana Raquel Minian on a firsthand look at the horrors of immigration detention — a practice so cruel that the United States ended it for a quarter-century. “No one will believe baboon complaints”: Racist abuse in immigration detention on the rise in Trump era, report says. Renee Romano on the trauma of internment: What lies ahead for the children in detention. Family reunification has long been a cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy. Separated immigrant children are all over the U.S. now, far from parents who don’t know where they are. Trump will reunite separated families — but only if they agree to deportation.
The Trump administration’s family values: The policy of separating children from their parents at the southern border was the purest distillation yet of what it means to be governed by a president with no moral center. Americans love families, American policies don’t: Falling short of other countries, from the left and the right, in meeting real needs.
Trump: Obama was for “open borders” — also, his immigration policies were the same as mine. Most immigrants who enter the country do so legally, federal data shows. ICE is a tool of illegality — it must be abolished. The ideological limits of asylum: We must grant refuge to migrants fleeing poverty and violence and increase the free movement of all people — but we can’t forget that the conditions Central American migrants are fleeing stem directly from US intervention in the region. Current Affairs helps you navigate through the asylum process.
