Temporary quarantines and other targeted restrictions might be justified. But pandemics do not justify more general migration restrictions. Indeed, the latter often actually imperil health.
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The latest sting went to elaborate lengths to target students themselves instead of illicit pay-to-stay visa mills.
An important and thoughtful opinion that potentially invalidates Trump Administration refugee and asylum policies.
The legal battle over immigration, federalism, and executive power heats up.
Apparently, conservatives believe in states' rights, except when they don't.
Lawmakers want to get tougher on touching "with the intent to sexually arouse."
The decision allows the Justice Department to impose immigration enforcement conditions on federal grants to state governments, and goes against numerous other court decisions striking down the exact same policy.
In between Trump's restrictionism and Democrats' Medicare-for-all-undocumented enthusiasm lies a party basically unified behind mass immigration without welfare.
The justices heard oral arguments this week in United States v. Sineneng-Smith.
The company cited a recent federal memo clarifying that agents are expected to obey the Constitution.
What’s at stake in United States v. Sineneng-Smith.
Raíces Venezolanas, or Venezuelan Roots, gives household items and a heavy dose of moral support to immigrant families showing up in South Florida.
Other possible legal challenges to Trump's expanded travel ban may be precluded by the Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. Hawaii. This one is not.
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My 2008 article on this subject is now available on SSRN.
The new lawsuits against the state of New Jersey and King County, Washington have many of the same constitutional flaws as the administration's other efforts to to target sanctuary cities.
They want to scrap the citizenship rights of Indian Muslims because America helped Soviet Jews and Christians.
A Harvard study's findings show how not to fight the restrictionist disinformation campaign.
The courts may not strike it down. But it remains both illegal and deeply unjust.
A potent combination of puritanism, racism, and political opportunism is putting Asian masseuses and the people who support them in needless danger.
Parts of Trump's expensive vanity project on the southern border have been blown over by stiff winds. Other sections will have massive holes in them, by design.
GOP attacks on internet smut are heating up, but the porn industry has more practical threats to worry about.
The tour may be canceled, but the book is benefiting from the controversy.
A century ago, the Wilson administration cracked down on immigrant anarchists. The raids lasted three months, and their impact was felt for decades.
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Conservatives want courts to consider the governments' bigoted motives in enacting anti-Catholic Blaine amendments, but not when it comes to Trump's travel ban. Liberals tend to be inconsistent in the opposite way.
In which the Board of Immigration Appeals decides it can ignore appellate court rulings and is nearly held in contempt.
E-Verify makes life harder on immigrants who want to work, but it doesn't make things better for anyone—-even those who want to see those immigrants leave.
The Trump administration is trying to make it harder for pregnant women to enter the country as tourists since they might give birth while here.
Sending Omar Ameen back to Iraq will likely result in his execution, and the case against him doesn't make sense. The Trump administration is fighting to do it anyway.
It will be published by Oxford University Press in April.
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Militarized borders and military intervention are two sides of the same coin.
And they're just as wrong and dangerous this time around.
Canada and Australia are scooping up the talent that America is spurning.
How the Punjabi diaspora rescued Canada's national sport
A new dump of emails shed light on Miller's agenda and motivations
Congress and President Trump should use 2020 to craft more sane policies on trade, immigration, and the budget.
The Democratic presidential candidate wants to keep prostitution customers criminalized while "decriminalizing sex work on the part of the seller."
The new memoir Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race is a powerful personal statement and national call to arms.
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