Tearing Babies from Their Mother's Breasts Is Now Your Government at Work
Zero tolerance enforcement against illegal border crossings turns Wal-Marts into essentially jails for kids.
Immigration
America Needs to Declare Zero Tolerance for Trump's Border Abuses
Ripping kids from migrant parents is both lawless and cruel.
Jeff Sessions' Ruling Denying Asylum to Victims of Domestic Violence Highlights Arbitrary Cruelty of Our Immigration Policy - a Problem that Goes Well Beyond the Current Administration
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.
'This Is a New Low…To Separate Mothers from Their Children': Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Congresswoman says asylum seekers are denied 'basic human rights,' abused by Border Patrol.
Justice Department Rejects Salvadoran Woman's Application for Asylum Because She Provided "Material Support" to Terrorists - by Working as a Slave Laborer for Them
Guerrillas forced the applicant to cook and clean for them, after killing her husband.
Trump's Zero Tolerance Cruelty at the Border
In the name of punishing minor border violations, his administration has become lawless
Trump Suffers Another Defeat in Philadelphia Sanctuary City Case
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.
Unemployment Is 3.8%, So Feds Raid Ohio Landscape Company, Arrest 114 Illegal Immigrants
We should be increasing legal immigration and making it easier than ever to work here.
How the Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision Strengthens the Case Against Trump's Travel Ban
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.
Don't Let Uncle Sam Seize Your Salami
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.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Did Not Say Schools Should Call ICE on Immigrant Kids
But did you know that Obama's ICE arrested students at bus stops? Our immigration policy is a bipartisan nightmare.
Why Can't Anyone Get Their Immigration Facts Straight?: Podcast
The president and his detractors both bungle scare stories in the outrage-politics contest that passes for our immigration policy debate.
The Case Against Deporting Immigrants Convicted of Crimes
Immigrants who commit crimes should be punished. But no more than others who commit the same offense.
Government Has 'Lost' 1,475 Unaccompanied Minors It Apprehended at the U.S. Border*
Innocent kids will likely bear a terrible cost to "make America great again."
Evidence Indicates there is no "Extensive" Analysis Backing Trump's Travel Ban
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.
Lies About Chain Migration Are Donald Trump's 'Welfare Queen,' a Tall Tale To Comfort the Base
Politicians, especially presidents, should be held accountable for telling patently false anecdotes about real people.
Study: Elite Colleges' Race-Conscious Admissions Discriminate Against Asian Applicants
Caltech doesn't practice affirmative action, and its Asian American student population has increased. Harvard, on the other hand...
Immigration Hawks Dig in, but Why?
As our economy continues to grow, why are we still looking for scapegoats?
A Nation of Narcs
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.
High School Trump Fan Sues Over School Discipline for Border Wall T-Shirt
"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."
America Needs Immigrants Now More Than Ever
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 Constitutional Case for California's Sanctuary State Laws
The feds may commandeer local police into administering neither federal gun control nor federal immigration policy.
Do You Hear "All Immigrants Are Animals" or "MS-13 Are Animals"?
Forget Yanni vs. Laurel. Donald Trump's latest controversy gets at the heart of what divides us.
Would AG Sessions Have Sent Ayaan Hirsi Ali Back to Somalia to be Killed?
He is questioning the legitimacy of private violence against women as valid grounds for asylum
Broader Implications of the Supreme Court's Sports Gambling Decision
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.
Is Trump Just Doing the Crazy Things Republicans Always Promised?: Podcast
From ripping families apart to nominating a torture-enabler as CIA director, the administration is calling the GOP's bluff, Reason editors argue.
The Case for Abolishing the Requirement that the President Must be a "Natural Born" Citizen
I am reposting my 2016 post on this subject, on the occasion of Kevin Walsh's guest-blogging stint addressing the same issue.
Trump's Restrictionist Policies Hurt U.S. Businesses Along with Immigrants
Unemployment is down, but low- and high-skilled immigrants can't get in.
Sports Gambling Decision is a Major Victory for Federalism
The Supreme Court's invalidation of a federal law preventing state legalization of sports gambling strengthens protection for state autonomy from the federal government.
Trump's Official Policy: If You Cross the Border, We'll Kidnap Your Children
The president hopes that forcibly separating parents from their kids will deter illegal entry.
Undocumented Immigrants Make America Safer
Don't believe the falsehoods peddled by Trump and Sessions.
Human Trafficking Court in Delaware Shuts Down for Lack of Human-Trafficking Victims
The Delaware Criminal Justice Council found it difficult to "justify the resources that have been expend on so few" participants with such a "low rate of success."
Why the Trump Administration Keeps Losing in Court on Sanctuary Cities
It's all about the Constitution.
Do Family Values Stop at the Rio Grande for Conservatives?
They are crying for baby Alfie in England but ignoring the plight of families being separated at the border
Donald Trump Is Driving Ann Coulter Insane
Maybe she'll move to Mexico if he implements a guest worker program
Mike Pence Calls Lawbreaking Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio a 'Champion of the Rule of Law'
Because nothings says "rule of law" like a sheriff held in contempt for refusing to follow a judge's orders.
Undocumented Immigrants Are Less Crime Prone Than Native-Borns
More undocumented immigration meant less violent crime.
Conservatives Are Weeping Over the Plight of Britain's Baby Alfie. But Where Are Their Tears For Border Families Being Torn Apart by the Trump Administration?
Does their commitment to family values stop at the Rio Grande's edge?
My New Article on "Foot Voting, Decentralization, and Development"
This forthcoming article discusses how we can massively expand economic opportunity by making it easier for people to "vote with their feet," both domestically and through international migration.
The Sex Trafficking Charges Against Smallville Actress Allison Mack Are Totally Bogus
The federal charges against Mack highlight how human trafficking hysteria harms vulnerable women.
Thoughts on the Travel Ban Oral Argument
The justices' comments in the oral argument suggest this will be a close case that could easily go either way. The outcome could well turn on the views of that perennial swing voter, Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Why All Libertarians Should Hope that the Supreme Court Throws Out Trump's Travel Ban
Giving the government blanket power to check the Bill of Rights at the border won't serve the interests of citizens or immigrants
Pardon Jack Johnson
The White Slavery Panic of the late 19th/early 20th centuries caused Congress to pass the vaguely-worded Mann Act. It allowed the FBI and prosecutors broad discretion to go after individuals they didn't like.
My "The Hill" Op Ed on the Bill of Rights and the Travel Ban
Prof. Michael Mannheimer and I have coauthored an op ed explaining why the Bill of Rights limits federal power over immigration, and renders Trump's travel ban unconstitutional.
A Roundup of My Volokh Conspiracy Posts on the Travel Ban
On the eve of the of Supreme Court oral argument in the travel ban case, here are links to some of my more notable VC posts on the subject.
