The growth of today’s aggressive immigration tactics traces back 25 years, when enforcement took on the dimension of counterterrorism.
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The violence we’re witnessing on our phones impacts us on both on an individual and societal scale. This grief needs to be processed.
About 1 in 4 doctors practicing in the US were born abroad.
An estimated 150,000 fewer international students are expected to be attending American universities and colleges this fall because of visa restrictions and other Trump administration policies.
The language around immigration in the US is almost as complicated as the system itself.
Judge James Boasberg’s order stops short of holding any government officials in contempt, but leaves open the possibility for these sanctions.
In 2023, approximately 51 million foreign-born people lived in the United States. Almost three-quarters were in the country legally. Half of the rest had some legal protection from deportation.
State-level immigration policies can have surprising ripple effects.
Fluctuating rates of illegal migration to the US over the past few decades show that the government’s approach of trying to stop migrants with more security has not worked.
Since the earliest days of the nation, any person born on US soil is a US citizen. A new Supreme Court ruling limits judges’ ability to block Trump’s order.
Trump focused on illegal immigration in his campaign and pledged to make a range of sweeping changes – some of which his administration could do without congressional approval.
Trump’s comments against immigrants of color have prompted comparisons to the Nazis. But American and British theorists coined the theory of eugenics long before the Nazis rose to power.
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Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth
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Research Fellow in End-of-life and Grief Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Mobile Media and Games., RMIT University
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Professor of U.S. Immigration Studies, Amherst College
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Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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Richter Professor Emerita of Political Science, Swarthmore College
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Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor of Political Economy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Emory University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
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Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Senior Program Director, Center for the Advancement of Human Rights, Florida State University
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Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice in Public Diplomacy, Tufts University