Trump Is Using the Border Crisis to Stoke Human Trafficking Hysteria
Misleading claims about people smuggling serve only to justify the government's already bloated surveillance and law enforcement powers.
Immigration
Migrants Boost Per Capita Incomes and Lower Unemployment Finds Yet Another Study
Thirty years of data show "refugee burden" is a myth: Migrants to Europe have been a significant economic benefit
Beginning of the End of Trump's Zero Border (In)Tolerance?
He seems to be backing away from criminally prosecuting all unauthorized border crosses
Greyhound Should Just Say No to the Border Patrol's Bus Sweeps
The company has no legal obligation to let alien hunters harass its customers unless they have a warrant or probable cause.
Immigration Hardliners Lose Today in an 8-1 Supreme Court Ruling
The ruling also raises questions about the future viability of "Chevron deference."
Trump's Hostage-Taking Strategy on Border Enforcement Backfired
The great negotiator acts like a mafia boss
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 Signs Executive Order Reversing Family Separation Policy
The administration says it will continue its "zero tolerance" approach to illegal immigration.
The Factual and Rhetorical Silliness of Family Separation Whataboutism
People who supported Trump's policy justified it by falsely claiming that today's critics never cared about Obama's detention facilities.
The Government Unjustly Separates American Families Too. But Shouldn't That Make Us More Sympathetic?
An unsatisfying answer to the question of why Trump country seems unfazed by immigrant family separation.
How to Fight Inhumane Immigration Policies? Better Smugglers
Improving smuggling efforts isn't ideal, but it's better than just watching kids get torn from their families.
Worldwide Refugee Population Hits All-Time High, U.S. Intake Reaches All-Time Low
Mike Pompeo celebrates World Refugee Day by bragging about America's "leadership" on the issue, but the numbers tell a different story
If You Cross the Border, We'll Kidnap Your Child
Trump can't escape responsibility for the predictably cruel consequences of his "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
Yes, Trump's Immigration Policy Is Just Like the Holocaust, Except for the Genocide
Nazi analogies do not strengthen the case against forcibly separating illegal border crossers from their children.
Tattoos Shouldn't Be Cause for Deportation
ICE claimed tattoos are evidence of gang activity, grounds for deportation.
Judge Spikes Kansas Voter ID Law, Orders Trump's 'Voter-Fraud' Czar to Take Remedial Legal Classes
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.
Maybe Snatching Toddlers From Their Asylum-Seeking Parents Is Who We Are: Podcast
Reason editors discuss what anti-immigration fantasy looks like when translated into policy, and how education diversity goals lead to discrimination.
Fatal Texas SUV Crash a Result of Irresponsible Policing, Not Poor Border Security
We'd be outraged by the unnecessary pursuit if Americans had been killed.
Donald Trump Is Terrible on Immigration, But Congress Is the True Monster
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.
Trump's Policy of Separating Immigrant Families Makes for a Contentious Father's Day: Reason Roundup
Plus: More evidence emerges that Harvard University discriminates against Asians.
'Enforcing the Law' Doesn't Justify Separating Migrant Children from their Parents
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.
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.
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
