Trump Threatens Mass Immigration Action Next Week, Though No One's Sure What He Means
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The benefits of a backlash
Warren faced up to 20 years in federal prison for providing humanitarian aid to two undocumented immigrants.
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The agency is mum on how many people are impacted
When Tucker Carlson and Elizabeth Warren agree on trade, regulation, and social media, it's time to rethink a few things.
ICE agents told investigators they were "unaware" of policies to avoid deporting veterans—the same policies the agency assured me it was following in 2016.
The postwar era has been an endless series of rebukes to social conservatives—and a win for libertarians.
"My intent was to provide them with some basic humanitarian aid."
It took 39 hours for every child to be reunited with their parents.
To state Rep. Jillian Gilchrest, “Raising women up” apparently means depriving them of employment opportunities.
The Senate majority leader says he will not allow a vote on it, despite widespread support for the measure.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Somin family's arrival in America.
The seventh post in the Volokh Conspiracy symposium on "Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative" (ed. by Joshua Claybourn).
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So far, the answer is "maybe."
'We know what we want to do with our bodies, and we don't need government interference.'
The decision does not reach the merits of President Trump's attempt to divert military funds to build his border wall.
Pondering the right-commentariat's populist-nationalist vs. classical liberal split, on the latest Reason Podcast
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The President's effort to coerce Mexico into blocking the emigration of its own people undermines the distinction between keeping people out and locking them in. It thereby makes US immigration policy analogous to the Berlin Wall.
Americans have long provided migrants with food and water. Why are we now treating that like a crime?
And that whole Voting Rights Act justification? Kinda the opposite, actually.
The presidential hopeful released his immigration plan on Wednesday.
Recent articles by Tyler Cowen and Farhad Manjoo highlight anti-immigrant effects of many Democrats' policies on zoning and other issues. The party is not quite as bad as the Republicans. But that's damning with faint praise.
The first court decision on Trump's plan to reallocate federal funds to "build the wall" goes against the administration.
What happens when cities and counties have their own ideas about a law that authorizes the seizure of guns from people who are mentally ill?
Still, it's better than the administration's previous proposals to cut legal immigration in half.
Historian Daniel Okrent looks back at the bigoted "intellectual justification" for anti-immigration policies.
Matthew Bowen hit a man who crossed the border. Then he sent a text calling him a "human pit maneuver."
The latest bad idea from Bernie Sanders is depressingly popular, sayeth the podcast crew.
Bill de Blasio's coming humiliation is just the latest evidence of the outer-borough president's revenge on Manhattan.
One of the migrants was gravely ill.
A history lesson for Americans
Historian Daniel Okrent's new book, The Guarded Gate, recounts the history of bigotry, eugenics, and the "intellectual justification" of anti-immigration policies.
But even that's a bridge too far for immigration restrictionists.
"The victims are the sex workers…getting harassed and locked up in cages by the cops."
Police often accuse people of "sex trafficking." Usually, it’s simply prostitution.
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The bill also targets strip clubs
Restrictionist allies seethe as Jared Kushner's reform plan fails to reduce overall numbers.
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It's not clear if congressional Democrats will comply.
My new book chapter is now available for free on SSRN. It desccribes how "voting with your feet" played a central role in American history, how foot voting is at the heart of much of the nation's success, and the recent rise of dangerous new obstacles to foot-voting. Part of a new book, "Our American Story: The Search for a National Narrative."
The plan is likely to backfire and cause more illegal border crossings by the people most desperately in need.
He says his plan will prioritize highly skilled immigrants and will "maintain our country's humanitarian values."
Outraged by that video of freelance border guards detaining migrant families? Wait til you find out what the official border cops have been up to...