Stalled Senate Sex-Trafficking Bill Should Stay That Way
This is one time that lawmakers using abortion as a political tool may be a boon for civil liberties.
Immigration
Could Sheriff Joe Arpaio End Up Wearing Pink Underwear In His Own Jail?
It couldn't happen to a nicer guy
Sex Worker Laura Lee to Launch Legal Challenge to Northern Ireland Prostitution Law
In Northern Ireland people can be convicted of paying for sex starting in June.
Abortion Funding Battle Doomed Human-Trafficking Bill and Loretta Lynch Vote To Be Continued in April
But gridlock may be the best we can hope for with the "Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act."
Enhanced Penalties for Prostitution Patrons in New York's New Human Trafficking Measure
"Tough on crime" doesn't die, it just takes new forms
Did President Obama Admit the US is Controlled by Space Aliens?
Obama UFO joke on Jimmy Kimmel Live throws conspiracy theorists into a frenzy.
Sex-Trafficking Victims Hurt Most by Senator's Crusade Against Classified Ads
Closing sites like Backpage.com puts trafficking victims at even more risk.
Here's What the Senate's Massive Sex-Trafficking Bill Would Actually Do
The legislation addresses much more than preventing and punishing traffickers.
Parking in 'Designated Area of High Prostitution Activity' Could Get Your Car Impounded in Spokane, Washington
What the plan lacks in likelihood to yield results, it makes up for in ensuring police harassment.
64 Face Jail After Elaborate Sting Aimed at 'Ending Demand' For Prostitution in Houston
At least 270 arrested in Houston prostitution stings since start of 2014
FBI Raids Alleged "Birthing Centers" For Rich Chinese Tourists
Twenty sites across Southern California were raided, with operators arrested on charges of fraud. The women were taken to hospitals.
Unchecked Checkpoints
A federal appeals court gives a pass to unconstitutional harassment by border cops.
House Passes Clean DHS Funding Bill: Republicans Divide Themselves Instead of Democrats
They passed a clean bill with no poison pills against the Obama executive order
House Democrats Join Restrictionists in Rejecting the Three-Week DHS Funding Extension
They wanted to give Republicans rope to hang themselves
Jeb Bush and the Gospel of Economic Growth
Jeb Bush defends himself on Common Core and immigration while talking up economic expansion.
Senate Passes A Clean DHS Funding Bill while House Republicans Consider "Options"
House Republicans don't grok that there is no way to win this fight
Obama Is No BFF of Latino Immigrants or Civil Liberties
His Criminal Alien Removal Initiative is brutal and hypocritical.
Obama's Incompetence Might Doom his Immigration Executive Action
Asking the 5th Circuit Court to overturn last week's block might be too little too late
Four Reasons Why Freedom Lovers Should Cheer a Restrictionist-Led DHS Shutdown
It's an incompetent and evil agency. Shutting it down will halt the spread of its notorious new stop-and-frisk CARI program.
Republicans on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Over Obama's "Executive Amnesty"
They can't figure out a way to fund the DHS and defund Obama's executive action
SAVE Act Would Hold Websites Criminally Liable for User-Generated Content
Lawmakers target classified ad sites
DHS to Start Collecting Iris and Facial Recognition Images at Border
It's Philip K. Dick's world. We just live here.
Boehner Uses the Snowstorm as an Excuse to Pull Border Security Bill
McCaul bill's untimely death shows the impotence of the House leadership on immigration reform
The Coming House Vote on Building a Berlin Wall on the Rio Grande
This week will test if Rep. McCaul's strategy of restrictionist appeasement and border security first is politically viable
WATCH: No Asylum - Immigrants Locked Up in U.S. after Fleeing Violence
A look inside America's rapidly expanding immigration detention system
Hyphenated Americans Don't Undermine America
Their hyphen makes them appreciate America in a way that natives can't
No Asylum: Immigrants Locked Up in U.S. after Fleeing Violence
A look at America's expanding immigration detention system
Why Bobby Jindal is Wrong to Tell Hyphenated Americans to Lose the Hyphen
They are good for America just the way they are
What Both Pauls Got Wrong About the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
Ron Paul's blowback didn't cause the attack and Rand Paul's war on immigration won't cure it.
Immigration Roundup: The Good, Bad and Ugly in the GOP-controlled Congress
Congressional Republicans are divided and could break out into a major civil war on immigration
Charlie Hebdo: Rand and Ron Paul's Lowpoint
Blowback isn't the cause and immigration restrictions aren't the cure
Jeff Sessions' Handbook of Immigration Lies
Sessions' anti-immigration narrative has little basis in the economic literature
Let (a Lot More of) Them In
Comprehensive immigration reform isn't coming anytime soon. Here's what to do in the meantime.
Why Obama's Immigration Policy Is Constitutional
Obama's immigration order does not undermine the rule of law-but the expansion of federal criminal law does.
