Kelly was talking about seizing children as a way of discouraging unauthorized border crossing a year before Sessions announced "zero tolerance."
The president's commitment to increased physical barriers on the Southern border is dumb and he is smart to back down.
The Tibbetts family is not letting their daughter's death be used to support Trumpist immigration policies.
2018 was a mixed bag, but that means there was still a lot of good news.
The agency has announced new policies in response.
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.
No but really, the shutdown is probably going to happen.
The campaign isn't actually about ladders.
The man behind the "Deportation Bus" said he wanted to round up criminals. Looks like he should have started with himself.
The president needs to experience a political shellacking before he'll back off.
A national strategy for arresting sex buyers and letting local cops wiretap sex workers are among the approved changes.
It's a bad idea in more ways than one.
It sounds like Trump is folding, which is probably for the best.
"It's separating family-literally separating family from each other."
The best we can hope for is that Trump gives in.
"Our Border Patrol stations were built decades ago to handle mostly male single adults in custody, not families and children."
The administration is trying to reinterpret a 2008 agreement with the Vietnamese government.
$13.6 million might be a drop in the bucket. But this is still incredibly wasteful.
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.
A Tucson Weekly investigation finds that federal funds to "fight sex trafficking" are actually perpetuating it.
Trump's chief of staff was there to add a veneer of respectability to some of the president's worst positions.
The statute is "unconstitutionally overbroad," the appeals court says, because it criminalizes "a substantial amount of protected expression."
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.
"The decline is due almost entirely to a sharp decrease in the number of Mexicans entering the country without authorization."
Central planning doesn't work. The labor market is no exception.
But not according Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Many face getting tossed out of the country for minor crimes. This ruling could result in big changes.
The church faced a dilemma: "choosing between respect for the government and protecting the rights of a child."
Plus: Postmodern marketplaces or fraud? And the Reason webathon continues!
CityWell United Methodist Church sheltered an undocumented immigrant until they said he was lured to an immigration office under false pretenses.
Reason editors check their premises on immigration.
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.
"Operation Faithful Patriot" is nothing more than a very expensive, politically motivated P.R. campaign.
His anti-asylum proclamation is illegal and an abuse of his executive powers.
Plus: Trump endorses sentencing reform and Bitcoin's value continues to fall.
How indie media entrepreneurs James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt.
The porn wars haven't died, they're just packaged differently.
He has manufactured a fake border crisis to justify an illicit power grab.
"Training" is not a good enough justification for spending $200 million to send 8,000 troops to the border.
Liberty is not divisible. The rights of immigrants and Americans are inextricably linked.
Candidates who channeled Trump on immigration got roundly smacked.
Polling uncertainty and a surge in voter enthusiasm could make tomorrow an embarrassing day for many in the political class.
Trump can probably find someone better to set up barbed wire fences on the border.
This common argument has multiple flaws - including implying that the ancestors of most Americans were wrong to immigrate here.
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