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Religious, racial and class-based differences often get politicized.
When host communities unexpectedly receive large numbers of migrants, the influx can tax local services – and relations between migrants and residents.
A 1994 US policy was supposed to deter migration by securing popular access points. Instead, it drives people to enter the US by more hazardous means, such as being crammed in hot tractor-trailers.
Asylum-seekers will now be prevented from applying for asylum in the United States if they could have pursued asylum in another country first.
Children can be especially vulnerable to being wrongly subjected to immigration enforcement actions.
As part of a new ‘metering’ policy, US officials are turning asylum seekers away at ports of entry along the southern border. Thousands wait, straining the resources of Mexican border towns.
Thousands of Central American migrants are trying to cross the U.S. southern border. One scholar followed their paths to find out why they make the dangerous, sometimes deadly, journey.
In Texas’ Lower Rio Grande Valley, Border Patrol agents must ignore blistering heat and 25 mile-an-hour winds. Their job is simple: Catch terrorists, people without papers or those carrying drugs.
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Professor of sociology, East Carolina University
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Assistant Professor of Human Security, American University School of International Service
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PhD Candidate, International Studies., Old Dominion University
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Director of the Mexico Security Initiative, The University of Texas at Austin
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Senior Researcher, University of Notre Dame
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law, Hofstra University
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Professor of Geography, Vassar College
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Graduate Student Researcher at the Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School
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Professor of History, Quinnipiac University
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Research Associate Professor at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, Old Dominion University
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Professor of Law and Director of Immigration Law Clinic, Albany Law School
