The men, women, and children found dead in a tractor-trailer this week were just the latest casualties of an immigration approach that encourages dangerous journeys.
Texas taxpayers might be stuck footing the hefty bill for Abbott's busing scheme.
Human smugglers at Mexican border won’t be sought after if migrants can come to the U.S. legally.
If you put infants in federal custody, you're obliged to feed them.
There's no reason to have one set of rules for airline passengers and another for people who cross the border in a bus, train, or car.
The inspections caused great economic harm, and may also have violated the Dormant Foreign Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
The U.S. has taken in more Ukrainians through other migration pathways, but the low refugee tally shows how ill-prepared the U.S. refugee resettlement program was to help Ukrainians.
Given his track record, it isn’t surprising that Abbott would opt for a blusterous anti-migrant spectacle that comes at the expense of Texas taxpayers.
The controversial public health order will finally meet its end after U.S. immigration officials used it to carry out 1.7 million expulsions.
There are no public health gains from booting kids out of the country.
A federal judge wrote that migrants could face "horrific consequences" if expelled to certain places, particularly Mexico and Central American countries.
Visa pathways are limited for people like the Patels.
COVID-19 policies eroded liberty and many people want it back.
"It's abundantly clear he has no regard for the suffering of the Venezuelan people," then–presidential candidate Biden said of Trump's deportation flights.
Some good changes have flown under the radar. But there have been few wins—political or practical.
Joe Biden promised to do better by migrants upon taking office, but he fell short in 2021.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s crusade is costing the state huge sums just to try to prosecute thousands of misdemeanor trespassing cases.
Plus: Children's vaccine passports in San Francisco, investors' inflation fears are on the rise, and more...
The Trump-era border measure relegated 70,000 migrants to dangerous conditions in Mexico while they awaited immigration court dates.
Plus: Debt myopia, tech trade groups sue over Texas social media law, abortion providers ask SCOTUS to reconsider, and more...
We’re on our way to having to ask for permission to go about our daily lives.
Today's mediagenic crowds at the border in Del Rio, Texas, are a predictable and unnecessary result of restrictive migrant policies.
People and economies are retreating, or being pushed, back behind restricted frontiers.
We can stop obsessing about Islamic terrorists crossing the Southern border.
One of America's most isolated communities has struggled to weather the pandemic.
Plus: Enough about FOSTA's "unintended" consequences, another blow to the FTC's Facebook case, and more...
Border restrictions and testing requirements make vacation a bit less relaxing and a lot more expensive.
Title 42 prevents migrants from legally seeking asylum in the United States.
By discouraging Guatemalans from coming to the U.S., Harris hopes to keep migrants away from a legal immigration pathway they’re eligible to pursue.
Migrants from over 160 countries have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months.
The feds say they can paw through your phone and laptop any time you enter or leave the country.
People on both the left and right assumed Biden would lift Trump’s draconian immigration restrictions. But for some hopeful immigrants, things have actually gotten worse.
The country just gave almost 2 million Venezuelans a pathway to citizenship.
Plus: Legal cannabis workers now outnumber electrical engineers in the U.S., Portland cops defend dumpsters from hungry people, and more...
Plus: What Jeffrey Toobin teaches us about Section 230, Wisconsin's Foxconn boondoggle, Breonna Taylor juror speaks out, and more...
Gerardo Serrano, whose truck was seized over five forgotten handgun rounds, waited two years for a hearing he never actually got.
The new Netflix docuseries is a damning indictment of ICE.
Plus: how Hyperloop could reshape the Midwest, crowdfunding social media, the billionaires behind Democratic candidates, and more...
There are Middle Easterners hidden among the Latin Americans seeking entry at the U.S. border. But they're not who you think.
Plus: Rudy Giuliani threatens to sue The Swamp, UPS gets approval for delivery drones, and more...
A disturbing picture of a president willfully condoning not only the use of eminent domain to seize private land from Americans for a pet project, but also suggesting—perhaps ordering—his underlings to violate laws in pursuit of that objective.
Plus: Tulsi Gabbard is most searched candidate, Kirsten Gillibrand attacks Biden's record on women, and more...
The young man was finally released from custody this week.
Department of Homeland Security
A policy that allows for quicker deportations near the border could expand nationwide.
Short-term holding tanks marked by poor food and unsanitary conditions as immigrants are imprisoned for weeks longer than they should be.
Americans have long provided migrants with food and water. Why are we now treating that like a crime?
Plus: Protests against prostitution-loitering laws in NYC, Denver mushroom measure passes, misinformation about Section 230, and more...
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