When Roland Gramajo invited Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to a town-hall meeting about federal immigration raids, he hoped to assuage the community’s…
In a May 24, 2019 decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals presented the face of a typical Central American asylum seeker through the…
Almost a year ago President Donald Trump tweeted the view that undocumented immigrants should be immediately returned “from where they came” – no judges,…
The United States is indeed facing an asylum crisis. The American Immigration Council defines asylum as a “protection granted to foreign nationals already in…
The Trump administration frequently refers to the U.S.-Mexico border as a “crisis” zone that can only be fixed by building a border wall. The…
Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015 with a direct, blatant racist appeal. A 2018 study by the Proceedings of the Academy of…
There was a time in this country in the not too distant past when there was a difference between illegal immigration and asylum. President…
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Republican candidate promised potential voters that he would “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. and “make our government honest…
Racist fears have been the underpinnings of President Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policies. He has infected the social debate on this issue with the blatant…
Public outrage may have forced the Trump administration to cease separating immigrant children from their parents, but the administration’s “zero tolerance” policies remain in…
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