Mitt Romney Is Both Right and Wrong: Podcast
The #Resistance GOP mixes tonal civility with foreign-policy hawkishness and immigration amnesia.
Immigration
Arizona Officials Insist That Dragging Migrant Children is Not Cause for Concern
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office reluctantly turned over footage of shelter employees dragging, slapping, and pushing migrant children.
Bernie Supporters Slam Beto O'Rourke's Progressive Bona Fides but Mostly Ignore Pot, Immigration, and War
Democratic socialists prioritize economics first.
House Dems' Plan to Reopen the Government Probably Won't Work. Thank Trump.
It all comes down to one man.
Sanctuary Cities Aren't to Blame for Killing of California Cop
The suspect's previous DUI arrests didn't even put him on ICE's radar.
John Kelly Blames Jeff Sessions for Family Separations That Kelly Touted As a Deterrent to Illegal Immigration
Kelly was talking about seizing children as a way of discouraging unauthorized border crossing a year before Sessions announced "zero tolerance."
'We've Moved Off the Five.' Trump Already Caving on Border Wall Demands. Good for Him.
The president's commitment to increased physical barriers on the Southern border is dumb and he is smart to back down.
Mollie Tibbetts' Mom Takes in the Son of Undocumented Immigrants
The Tibbetts family is not letting their daughter's death be used to support Trumpist immigration policies.
Hello, FIRST STEP Act! Goodbye, Jeff Sessions! The Year in Criminal Justice Reform
2018 was a mixed bag, but that means there was still a lot of good news.
CBP Faces New Scrutiny After Second Child Dies in Their Custody
The agency has announced new policies in response.
Supreme Court Blocks Trump's Attempt To Change Asylum Law
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services allows those who are physically present in the U.S. or have entered at a port of entry to apply for asylum.
The Government Is Definitely Going to Shut Down Tonight. Maybe.
No but really, the shutdown is probably going to happen.
GoFundMe Page Trolls Border Wall With 'Ladders' Campaign, Raises $80,000 for Immigration Nonprofit
The campaign isn't actually about ladders.
A Law and Order Candidate Is Indicted for Committing a Crime
The man behind the "Deportation Bus" said he wanted to round up criminals. Looks like he should have started with himself.
Even Opponents of Trump's Wall Should Root for a Government Shutdown Today
The president needs to experience a political shellacking before he'll back off.
Congress Ramps Up War on Sex Workers and Their Customers With Secret Votes on Four New 'Protection' Laws
A national strategy for arresting sex buyers and letting local cops wiretap sex workers are among the approved changes.
A GoFundMe Has Raised More Than $1 Million for Trump's Border Wall
It's a bad idea in more ways than one.
It Looks Like Trump Won't Shut Down the Government Over Border Wall Money
It sounds like Trump is folding, which is probably for the best.
Yemeni Mother Can't See Dying 2-Year-Old Because of Trump's Travel Ban, Family Says
"It's separating family-literally separating family from each other."
Trump's Border Wall Is a Bad Idea. So Is a Government Shutdown.
The best we can hope for is that Trump gives in.
An Immigrant Girl's Death in CBP Custody Draws Criticism
"Our Border Patrol stations were built decades ago to handle mostly male single adults in custody, not families and children."
Why Is the Trump Administration Trying to Deport Thousands of Vietnamese Immigrants?
The administration is trying to reinterpret a 2008 agreement with the Vietnamese government.
CBP Paid a Contractor $13.6 Million to Hire 2 Agents
$13.6 million might be a drop in the bucket. But this is still incredibly wasteful.
Rep. Justin Amash: Spending Deal 'Will Be Bad for the American People'
Drama over a possible government shutdown came to a head today. But Amash is sure of "one thing": The eventual deal won't be good for the country.
Human Trafficking Grant Goes to Arrest Suspected Victims in Tucson
A Tucson Weekly investigation finds that federal funds to "fight sex trafficking" are actually perpetuating it.
John Kelly Was President Trump's Top Authoritarian Fearmonger. Good Riddance.
Trump's chief of staff was there to add a veneer of respectability to some of the president's worst positions.
9th Circuit Says a Federal Law Making It a Felony to 'Encourage' Illegal Immigration Violates the First Amendment
The statute is "unconstitutionally overbroad," the appeals court says, because it criminalizes "a substantial amount of protected expression."
Federal Court Rules Against Trump in Sanctuary Cities Case Brought by Seven States and New York City
The ruling is the latest in a long line of setbacks for the administration's efforts to punish sanctuary jurisdictions by withholding federal law enforcement grants.
Illegal Immigrants Are at a 10-Year Low, So Can We Chill for a Minute?
"The decline is due almost entirely to a sharp decrease in the number of Mexicans entering the country without authorization."
Immigration Won't Spark a Civil War
Central planning doesn't work. The labor market is no exception.
8 Years in Prison for Voting Illegally Is Way Too Much
But not according Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
New York's Top Court Rules Immigrants Are Entitled to Jury Trials for Crimes that May Lead to Deportation
Many face getting tossed out of the country for minor crimes. This ruling could result in big changes.
Dutch Church's Month-Long, 24/7 Service Is Saving a Family of Refugees From Deportation
The church faced a dilemma: "choosing between respect for the government and protecting the rights of a child."
Trump Wants $5 Billion for a Border Wall. Here Are Some Better Alternatives: Reason Roundup
Plus: Postmodern marketplaces or fraud? And the Reason webathon continues!
A Church's Dramatic Attempt to Stop a Deportation Reflects the Crackdown on Sanctuaries
CityWell United Methodist Church sheltered an undocumented immigrant until they said he was lured to an immigration office under false pretenses.
Does Trump Have a Point About Asylum?: Podcast
Reason editors check their premises on immigration.
The Case that Started All the Fuss
Judge Tigar's (ND CA) asylum decision is an especially inappropriate target for Trump's ranting, given the weakness of the Administration's position on the legal issues raised by the case.
The Military Is 'Securing' a 1,900-Mile Border with 22 Miles of Razor Wire
"Operation Faithful Patriot" is nothing more than a very expensive, politically motivated P.R. campaign.
Trump's Border Lawlessness
His anti-asylum proclamation is illegal and an abuse of his executive powers.
Facebook Supported 'Sex Trafficking' Law FOSTA to Cozy Up to Republican Critics: Reason Roundup
Plus: Trump endorses sentencing reform and Bitcoin's value continues to fall.
The Backpage Scandal Isn't What You Think
How indie media entrepreneurs James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt.
Anti-Porn Republicans Haven't Gone Anywhere
The porn wars haven't died, they're just packaged differently.
Trump's Illegal Anti-Asylum Presidential Proclamation
He has manufactured a fake border crisis to justify an illicit power grab.
Deploying Troops to the Border Is Expensive and Unnecessary, but at Least They're 'Getting Training Out of' It
"Training" is not a good enough justification for spending $200 million to send 8,000 troops to the border.
