Vicki Squire (Warwick): Post/Humanitarian Border Politics Between Mexico and the US: People, Places, Things. No one is safer, no one is served: An immigrant family hides from Donald Trump in a Connecticut church. Law and Border: Jacob Levy on on the rule of law and risk of lawlessness. The case for migrant reparations: How should the United States compensate the parents and children harmed by the Trump administration's family-separation policy? This is how flags become symbols of hate: A faction of Americans have co-opted and weaponized “patriotism” to lord bigotry over immigrants — especially those this administration has separated from their families. Tina Vasquez on abolishing ICE: Beyond a slogan.
Daniel E. Martinez (GWU), Jeremy Slack (UTEP) and Ricardo Martinez-Schuldt (UNC): The Rise of Mass Deportation in the United States. From the Brookings Institution, Ryan Nunn, Jimmy O’Donnell, and Jay Shambaugh on a dozen facts about immigration. Under Trump, refugee admissions are falling way short — except for Europeans. Trump’s immigrant crackdown is worse than what climate dystopian novelists imagined. USCIS Director Lee Francis Cissna is the son of an immigrant, the son-in-law of a refugee and a man who says he’s just obsessed with the fair implementation of laws — so why is he making them so much harder for immigrants? A look at the shadowy network shaping Trump’s anti-immigration policies.
From the Congressional Research Service, a report on Temporary Protected Status: Overview and Current Issues. The border-security-industrial complex: Gabriel Schivone interviews Todd Miller, author of Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security. 3,121 desperate journeys: Exposing a week of chaos under Trump’s zero tolerance. Stephanie Leutert on who’s really crossing the U.S. border, and why they’re coming. America could learn from the EU’s open borders: Only libertarians advocate completely free movement, yet there is much to be said for a degree of openness in immigration policy.
