The Needless Cruelty of Trump's Border Policy
Trump's approach has been a model of brutality, inflicting unspeakable horror on children and parents.
Trump's approach has been a model of brutality, inflicting unspeakable horror on children and parents.
The administration says it will continue its "zero tolerance" approach to illegal immigration.
People who supported Trump's policy justified it by falsely claiming that today's critics never cared about Obama's detention facilities.
An unsatisfying answer to the question of why Trump country seems unfazed by immigrant family separation.
Improving smuggling efforts isn't ideal, but it's better than just watching kids get torn from their families.
Mike Pompeo celebrates World Refugee Day by bragging about America's "leadership" on the issue, but the numbers tell a different story
Trump can't escape responsibility for the predictably cruel consequences of his "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
Nazi analogies do not strengthen the case against forcibly separating illegal border crossers from their children.
ICE claimed tattoos are evidence of gang activity, grounds for deportation.
Kris Kobach suffers legal, factual, and professional humiliation at the hands of a federal judge, though his conspiratorial cause still lives on at the White House.
Reason editors discuss what anti-immigration fantasy looks like when translated into policy, and how education diversity goals lead to discrimination.
We'd be outraged by the unnecessary pursuit if Americans had been killed.
The president's policy of separating families at the border is wrong, but he's enabled by a lack of legislative action dating back decades.
Plus: More evidence emerges that Harvard University discriminates against Asians.
The main justification for the Trump administration policy of forcibly separating immigrant children from their families is that it is supposedly mandated by law. This claim is both false on its own terms, and an inadequate defense even if it were true.
Zero tolerance enforcement against illegal border crossings turns Wal-Marts into essentially jails for kids.
Ripping kids from migrant parents is both lawless and cruel.
The decision is legally dubious. But it also highlights the arbitrariness of rules that exclude victims of horrible injustices just as severe as those luck enough to qualify.
Congresswoman says asylum seekers are denied 'basic human rights,' abused by Border Patrol.
Guerrillas forced the applicant to cook and clean for them, after killing her husband.
In the name of punishing minor border violations, his administration has become lawless
The ruling is the latest in long line of defeats for the administration's efforts to cut federal grants to sanctuary jurisdictions. It breaks new ground by showing how the recent Supreme Court ruling in Murphy v. NCAA helps sanctuary cities.
We should be increasing legal immigration and making it easier than ever to work here.
The Supreme Court's ruling was based on state officials' apparent hostility to the bakers' religious beliefs. There is far stronger evidence of such hostility in the travel ban case.
Civil import violations carry penalties tied to either the value of the article itself or to the taxes you would have been assessed if you'd declared it.
But did you know that Obama's ICE arrested students at bus stops? Our immigration policy is a bipartisan nightmare.
The president and his detractors both bungle scare stories in the outrage-politics contest that passes for our immigration policy debate.
Immigrants who commit crimes should be punished. But no more than others who commit the same offense.
Innocent kids will likely bear a terrible cost to "make America great again."
Despite the administration's claims to the contrary, it appears that no such thing exists. Its absence strengthens the constitutional case against the travel ban.
Politicians, especially presidents, should be held accountable for telling patently false anecdotes about real people.
Caltech doesn't practice affirmative action, and its Asian American student population has increased. Harvard, on the other hand...
As our economy continues to grow, why are we still looking for scapegoats?
Americans have developed a nasty habit of inviting the state into people's lives for tiny offenses. Here are three ways to turn back the tide.
"If people are offended by his shirt-that's their right to be offended," said the student's attorney, state Rep. Mike McLane. "But it's also his right to have his opinion."
From falling birthrates to labor shortages, if you want to make America great again, the economic case for opening borders has never been stronger.
The feds may commandeer local police into administering neither federal gun control nor federal immigration policy.
Forget Yanni vs. Laurel. Donald Trump's latest controversy gets at the heart of what divides us.
He is questioning the legitimacy of private violence against women as valid grounds for asylum
Commentators are right to suggest that Murphy v. NCAA will help sanctuary cities, but wrong to claim it is like to undermine federal laws restricting state taxes.
From ripping families apart to nominating a torture-enabler as CIA director, the administration is calling the GOP's bluff, Reason editors argue.
I am reposting my 2016 post on this subject, on the occasion of Kevin Walsh's guest-blogging stint addressing the same issue.
Unemployment is down, but low- and high-skilled immigrants can't get in.
The Supreme Court's invalidation of a federal law preventing state legalization of sports gambling strengthens protection for state autonomy from the federal government.
The president hopes that forcibly separating parents from their kids will deter illegal entry.