A CIA veteran explains that a polygraph campaign is not likely to eliminate leaks, but it may divert investigative energy from essential security priorities.
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Congress never built a path from temporary status to permanent residence, leaving many people facing deportation with little recourse.
There is a strange nostalgia in realizing that something once so immediate now belongs increasingly to people who know it only as the past.
US colleges and universities hosted nearly 1.2 million international students in the 2024-25 school year, an all-time high.
Scholars have defined the elements of what qualifies as a concentration camp system. Based on those, ICE detention facilities meet the definition of concentration camps.
The combined political and legal roles and responsibilities of the US attorney general can create conflicts. Some attorneys general yielded to political pressure from the president – many did not.
New US requirements for visa-free travel could involve sharing large amounts of biometric and law enforcement data, prompting concerns about privacy.
A new DHS policy could result in the detention of thousands of people who have lawful immigration status.
The growth of today’s aggressive immigration tactics traces back 25 years, when enforcement took on the dimension of counterterrorism.
A ‘domestic terrorism’ label that comes before the facts teaches the public to treat the term as propaganda rather than factual diagnosis.
A policing scholar and former FBI special agent lays out the established principles of policing and constitutional law that govern how federal immigration enforcement efforts should be carried out.
Children with a parent or family member who is detained, or are part of a drawn-out immigration court case, are twice as likely to have anxiety as young adults.
Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front lawns.
Asian Americans have drawn parallels between today’s attacks on Latinos and a historically exclusive immigration policy that favors some families over others.
District courts have dismissed the administration’s efforts to detain virtually all undocumented immigrants without a bond hearing while they await deportation proceedings.
Kristi Noem’s claim that antifa is like the Islamic State group blurs the line between protest and terrorism – a political move unsupported by evidence.
Blood-and-soil style violent nationalism infuses everything the Trump administration is doing.
The triple whammy of deep staff cuts, shutdown furloughs and the expiration of an information-sharing law leaves national cybersecurity in a perilous state.
Historically, farm work in the United States has been carefully constructed to appear natural, including the racism and labor exploitation that characterizes it, a scholar writes.
The elimination of offices within Homeland Security and the State Department may force US counterterrorism efforts to rely on a solely military approach, which has proven ineffective.
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Professor of Practice, International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Associate Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University
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Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health and Latino/Latina Studies, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas
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Political Science Profesor, Torcuato di Tella University
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Research Director of the Program on Extremism, George Washington University
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Professor, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Criminal Justice, City University of New York