By discouraging Guatemalans from coming to the U.S., Harris hopes to keep migrants away from a legal immigration pathway they’re eligible to pursue.
More spending on more intrusive government is the Biden agenda all the way down.
Migrants from over 160 countries have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months.
The feds say they can paw through your phone and laptop any time you enter or leave the country.
The latest crisis at America's southern border isn't the result of short-term policy changes but of long-term bureaucratic failures.
Why border activity doesn't look that much different under the Biden administration, and how the media framed the Atlanta shootings
The country just gave almost 2 million Venezuelans a pathway to citizenship.
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The Institute for Justice wants the Supreme Court to rule that the Fifth Amendment requires a prompt post-seizure hearing.
Before putting testing rules in place, officials should have considered whether the public would be willing and able to comply.
Officials have never liked it when people are free to move about—and beyond their reach.
The coronavirus is not in your phone. Why should it be used to justify border searches?
"A cross-border shooting claim has foreign relations and national security implications."
Parts of Trump's expensive vanity project on the southern border have been blown over by stiff winds. Other sections will have massive holes in them, by design.
The Trump administration is treating people of Iranian origin like a potential fifth column.
Militarized borders and military intervention are two sides of the same coin.
Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless searches are reduced when entering the country, but they’re not completely erased.
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Ron Wyden and Rand Paul team up to stop Border Patrol from snooping in your stuff without good reason.
Nine years after his shooting death on the border, the family of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca may finally get a chance to hold the border agent accountable.
Historian Daniel Okrent looks back at the bigoted "intellectual justification" for anti-immigration policies.
Historian Daniel Okrent's new book, The Guarded Gate, recounts the history of bigotry, eugenics, and the "intellectual justification" of anti-immigration policies.
Oh, and the U.S. auto industry wouldn't even last that long.
The president, unlike his subordinates, admits that family separation was a deliberate policy aimed at deterring illegal border crossing.
Democrats' response did produce some good memes.
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Plus: The TSA mask is slipping and government shutdown goes on.
The agency has announced new policies in response.
"Our Border Patrol stations were built decades ago to handle mostly male single adults in custody, not families and children."
$13.6 million might be a drop in the bucket. But this is still incredibly wasteful.
Trump's chief of staff was there to add a veneer of respectability to some of the president's worst positions.
"Training" is not a good enough justification for spending $200 million to send 8,000 troops to the border.
Trump can probably find someone better to set up barbed wire fences on the border.
Candidates used to let political operatives do the dirty work so they could appear above it all. Not Trump.
This is what happens when "zero tolerance" meets the limitations of government resources.
"If you work for the industry, that is grounds for inadmissibility."
There's growing tolerance for splitting off chunks of what our social studies teachers insisted was an "indivisible" union.
"They just want a better life. I think most people in their shoes would do the same. And I stopped being able to reconcile that."
And abolishing ICE without changing the law isn't the way to fix it.
"You may learn about eminent domain, but until you are in the crosshairs of the government, you don't understand how it really works."
The late travel host changed television—and my life.
The political advantages of the president's zigzagging on family separation and the "Muslim ban" are not obvious.
Improving smuggling efforts isn't ideal, but it's better than just watching kids get torn from their families.
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