About 48% of Latino US citizens fear deportation for themselves, their loved ones or their communities. That’s up from 41% in 2007.
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The United States is at risk of lacking data from more than 10 million undocumented immigrants in the 2020 census.
The number of migrants living in churches has spiked recently in anticipation of threatened immigration raids, but churches have long protected refugees in an act of faith-based civil disobedience.
Deportees and other migrants return home wealthier, more educated and with more work experience than people who never left. This ‘brain gain’ benefits the whole community, financially and politically.
Trump has expanded and escalated the most punitive policies he inherited from his predecessors.
Changes to Australian immigration law have resulted in a sharp increase in deportations, particularly among New Zealanders of Maori and Pacific Island descent.
The new NHS charging regime will have a severe impact on the most vulnerable people in society.
Simply based on how they are housed, forcibly separating immigrant kids from their families is bound to make a bad situation worse.
What kind of a country is Canada? One which truly welcomes and respects immigrants and their lives and safety? Or one which just says it does but brutally detains and deports them?
Conservatives on migration claim that allowing the DACA recipients to stay shows disrespect for the law. The moral principles that underlie the American legal system, however, tell a different story.
An anthropologist went to Mexico and interviewed more than 50 people who were deported. It was like being sent to the moon, they told him.
Deportations of EU nationals in the UK have risen by 20%, despite EU laws protecting their rights.
Three stories show how today’s deportations are reminiscent of what immigrants experienced during immigration raids under President Obama.
In 1954, US Border Patrol’s Operation Wetback promised to deport millions of undocumented Mexicans. It fell far short of its target, but made a mark in the minds of immigrants who lived in fear.
Trump’s orders on deportations and immigration enforcement signal a hard-line approach without consideration for important factors in the lives of migrants.
Following through on campaign promises to forcibly evict several million illegal immigrants, Trump has set in motion a plan to deport those with criminal records. But doing so won’t come cheap.
Donald Trump has done what decades of American feminism could not: unite women worldwide in solidarity.
Students and faculty are demanding universities declare themselves sanctuary campuses. Historically, sanctuary offered both legal and moral protection for the vulnerable.
Before the United States kicks out millions of Mexicans, perhaps Trump – and we – should ask whether Latino deportees are really criminals, and consider the origins of that errant notion.
Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina boast that their business experience would make them excellent presidents, yet their immigration policies fall short of the lessons from Business 101.
Top contributors
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Dean of Law, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Deputy Director, Global Migration Center, University of California, Davis
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Reader in Sociology, City, University of London
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Associate Professor of English Studies and Coordinator of American Studies, Fitchburg State University
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Associate Professor of Social Work and Economics, University of Michigan
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Deputy Director, Intellectual Forum at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge, and Researcher for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, University of Cambridge
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Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, New York University
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Professor of Sociology, Brown University
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Associate Professor, University of Arkansas School of Law, University of Arkansas
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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies, Tufts University
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Associate Professor, Department of Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona
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Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
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Professor of Political Science, Birmingham-Southern College
