If You Oppose Punishing and Deporting Undocumented Workers, You Should Also Oppose Punishing Employers that Hire Them
Punishing employers is unjust for many of the same reasons as punishing the workers. And doing so harms the workers, too.
Immigration
Authoritarian Rulers Mobilize Private Violence To Advance Their Goals
Trump's incendiary rhetoric and selective law enforcement is encouraging anti-immigrant violence.
Assessing Justice Sotomayor's First Ten Years on the Supreme Court
The concerns I expressed about her record on property rights when I testified at her 2009 confirmation hearing were justified. But she has compiled an admirable record on several other issues.
Workplace Immigration Raids Prove America Is Still Land of Opportunity
ICE has already released 300 of 680 detainees, some on "humanitarian grounds."
Children Left Crying in Streets After ICE Arrests Parents in Massive Mississippi Raid
Plus: Chelsea Manning's latest motion is denied, Prager University's Google lawsuit is nonsense, and more...
Ashton Kutcher Helped Promote a Bogus Sex Trafficking Claim. Will We Ever Shake It?
The claim that 100,000 to 300,000 underage people were being sex trafficked in the United States was used in effort to destroy Backpage.com's founders.
Selling Drugs to Sex Workers Could Be Human Trafficking Under the Senate's New 'PROTECT Act'
The bipartisan bill says "using drugs or illegal substances to cause a person to engage in a commercial sex act" or in any kind of labor counts as human trafficking.
Trump Calls for Linking New Gun Control Legislation to Immigration Reform
The president offers the worst of both worlds.
After El Paso and Dayton Shootings, Threatened Crackdowns on Guns, Immigrants, and Internet Speech
Plus: the trouble with "national conservatism," the decline of the mortgage interest deduction, and more...
The Perils of Zero-Sum Worldviews Revisited
The El Paso shooter's combination of anti-capitalism, bigotry, and xenophobic nationalism highlights the dangers of zero-sum thinking on left and right. His worldview resembles that of the perpetrator of a similar attack in New Zealand earlier this year. Sadly, these ideas are not confined to a few extremists.
El Paso Walmart Shooter Allegedly Wrote Anti-Immigrant Manifesto Calling Hispanics 'Invaders'
Plus: A second shooting in Dayton leaves 9 dead, dozens injured.
Biden Gets Pummeled for Obama's Ugly Immigration Record
Plus: Tulsi Gabbard is most searched candidate, Kirsten Gillibrand attacks Biden's record on women, and more...
Biden to America: Massive Amounts of Executive Power Is Just Fine So Long as Trump Isn't President
In a testy exchange about immigration, the former vice president argued that Trump alone was the problem.
Trump Administration Has Separated 900 More Children From Their Parents, Says ACLU
An ACLU lawsuit argues that the government is using minor criminal histories to take children from their parents.
Democrats Need To Talk About Immigrants as Assets, Not Supplicants Needing Handouts
They are letting President Trump's bogus anti-immigration narrative dominate their conversation
Penn Law Should Not Fire Amy Wax
The professor's immigration views are wrong, but removing her would compromise academic freedom.
Supreme Court Stays Lower Court Ruling Against Trump's Border Wall Construction
It's a win for Trump; but only on procedural grounds. The broader legal battle over the wall is far from over.
U.S. Citizen Was on the Verge of Self Deporting After Being Detained for Weeks at Squalid Immigration Facility
The young man was finally released from custody this week.
Conservative Nationalists, Not Immigrants, Are Having Trouble Assimilating in America
Their orgy of statism is un-American.
A Federal Judge Has Put Trump's Anti-Asylum Rule on Ice
His border lawlessness keeps growing
Lawsuit Challenges State Department Policy Discriminating Against Foreign-Born Children of Same-Sex Married Couples
The policy denies citizenship to some children of married US-citizen same-sex couples if the child is born abroad, in situations where the child of opposite-sex couples are automatically considered citizens. It is a clear case of unconstitutional sex discrimination.
The Nationalist Right Is Wrong: More Immigration Doesn't Reduce Wages
The reason: Immigrants help increase labor demand as well as labor supply.
Nashville Neighbors Send ICE Packing. Let's See More of That for All Sorts of Law Enforcement.
It's not always safe, but it's certainly justifiable to sabotage unjust laws and malicious government.
More on Liberals and Federalism
In this follow-up to my Washington Post article on the same subject, I consider whether current liberal support for federalism is purely opportunistic, and whether the political left is inherently pro-centralization.
Department of Homeland Security
Papers, Please! DHS Wants Power to Deport People Faster with Less Judicial Oversight
A policy that allows for quicker deportations near the border could expand nationwide.
Trump's Message: If You Hate Me, You Hate America, and You Should Leave the Country
Lindsey Graham, who once called Trump a "race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot," seems to agree.
Child Sex Trafficking Prosecutions Down Under Trump
For the second year in a row, federal prosecutions for sex trafficking of children have dropped.
Trump's Asylum Ban Violates Standing American Law
It is unlikely to withstand legal scrutiny
President Trump's New Asylum Ban Will Lead to More Illegal Immigration
It will backfire bigly. The better border solution is more work visas for Central Americans
The Injustice of Demanding that Migrants Go Back and "Fix their Own Countries"
Trump's recent bigoted tweet is an opportunity to highlight the flaws of this oft-heard, but weak, argument.
ICE Begins Nationwide Raids on Undocumented Immigrants
The raids will continue for several days as the Trump administration tries to track down immigrants for arrest and deportation.
Trump Administration Finally Wins a Sanctuary City Grant Condition Case
The ruling comes after a long string of losses blocking other administration efforts to deny federal law enforcement funds to sanctuary jurisdictions. The different result in this case is largely a product of the unusual nature of the program involved.
My New Washington Post Op Ed on How Federalism Became Great Again on the Left
In recent years, many liberals have come to develop a new appreciation for constitutional limits on federal power. Whether the trend continues remains to be seen.
Backpage Prosecutors Want to Seize Assets First, Answer Questions Later
Aggressive asset forfeiture collides with First Amendment rights.
Acosta Resigns as Labor Secretary
He says his role in Jeffrey Epstein's plea deal has become a distraction.
Trump's Census Surrender Hints at the Real Reason He Tried to Add a Citizenship Question
Even if the president's motives were partisan, a more plausible cover story would have been enough to pass judicial muster.
Rand Paul Plan Aims to Attract More High-Skilled Immigrants
Plus: Trump drops Census citizenship quest, veterans says wars weren't worth it, millennials make good nuns, and more...
No Citizenship Question on 2020 Census as Trump Backs Down
Instead, the president signed an executive order directing government agencies to sift through documents and databases to determine Americans' citizenship status.
Department of Homeland Security
AOC Wants To Kill the Department of Homeland Security. Libertarians Have a Plan For That.
Libertarians have a lot of ideas about how to dismantle one of the most bloated, ineffective government departments ever.
Trump—Who Once Said Jeffrey Epstein 'Likes Beautiful Women as Much as I Do'—Moves to Distance Himself From the Disgraced Palm Beach Billionaire
Plus: Gabbard slams Harris' "political ploy," a fair use win for Vanity Fair and Andy Warhol, Hawaii decriminalizes marijuana, and more…
Blame Wilbur Ross's Clumsy Lies for the Census Mess
The commerce secretary could easily have reinstated the citizenship question if he had been less transparently dishonest.
Does Justin Amash Libertarianism Have a Future?
Dissecting the meaning of a congressman's newfound independence
Would Counting Illegal Immigrants Make the Census Pro–Democratic Party?
The Census fight overlooks the fact that the number of unauthorized residents is declining.
Jeffrey Epstein in Court Today on Sex Trafficking Charges
Plus: How the French could kill U.S. speech, do economic centrists exist?, and more...
Appeals Court Rules Against Trump in Border Wall Case
The ruling upholds a trial court decision holding that the president cannot divert military funds to builds his proposed border wall.
Foreign Lung Doctors Can Help Coal Country Residents. We Should Let Them.
But we first need to pass a bill to let more of them into the U.S.
Filthy, Overcrowded Border Detention Sites Called a 'Ticking Time Bomb'
Short-term holding tanks marked by poor food and unsanitary conditions as immigrants are imprisoned for weeks longer than they should be.
Prosecutors Will Retry the Volunteer Who Gave Humanitarian Aid to Migrants
Scott Warren is accused of harboring two undocumented immigrants after he gave them food, water, and a place to sleep.
