Greg Abbott's Border Wall Plan Is Doomed To Fail
The Texas governor wants to keep incoming migrants out at all costs. But those costs are insurmountable.
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Lawsuit: Immigrant Kids Are Suicidal, Eating Rotten Food in Secretive Detention Facilities
"I feel like I've given up," says a 17-year-old from Guatemala. "I feel like I'll never get out of here."
International Travel Is Partially Back, but It's Worse Than Before
Border restrictions and testing requirements make vacation a bit less relaxing and a lot more expensive.
Biden Keeps Another Trump Border Policy in Place
Title 42 prevents migrants from legally seeking asylum in the United States.
Kamala Harris Says She Isn't 'Discounting the Importance of the Border.' Why Won't She Visit It?
When pressed by NBC's Lester Holt in a Tuesday interview, Harris laughed the question off.
Kamala Harris Campaigned on a Kinder, Gentler Migration Policy. Now She's Telling Guatemalans, 'Do Not Come.'
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.
Abolish ICE? Actually, Biden's Budget Proposal Hikes Spending on America's Immigration Cops.
More spending on more intrusive government is the Biden agenda all the way down.
New Border Migration Trends Cast Doubt on Biden's Approach
Migrants from over 160 countries have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months.
Warrantless Border Searches Draw Call for Supreme Court Action
The feds say they can paw through your phone and laptop any time you enter or leave the country.
Immigration Politics Are Killing the Debate Over Immigration Policy
The latest crisis at America's southern border isn't the result of short-term policy changes but of long-term bureaucratic failures.
Immigration, Trade, and Narrative-Warping
Why border activity doesn't look that much different under the Biden administration, and how the media framed the Atlanta shootings
Colombia Is Giving Legal Status to Migrants Fleeing Venezuela
The country just gave almost 2 million Venezuelans a pathway to citizenship.
Biden's Immigration Plan: The Good, the Bad, and the Unclear
Plus: Legal cannabis workers now outnumber electrical engineers in the U.S., Portland cops defend dumpsters from hungry people, and more...
This Forfeiture Victim Waited 2 Years Without a Hearing. Is That Due Process?
The Institute for Justice wants the Supreme Court to rule that the Fifth Amendment requires a prompt post-seizure hearing.
Unreasonable Rules Fueled a Black Market in Negative COVID-19 Test Results
Before putting testing rules in place, officials should have considered whether the public would be willing and able to comply.
Pandemic Restrictions Are Eroding Our Freedom To Travel
Officials have never liked it when people are free to move about—and beyond their reach.
COVID-19 Is No Excuse for Suspicionless Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border
The coronavirus is not in your phone. Why should it be used to justify border searches?
Supreme Court: Mexican Family Can't Sue Border Patrol Agent in Cross-Border Shooting
"A cross-border shooting claim has foreign relations and national security implications."
The Wall Isn't Working
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.
Iranian Americans Targeted by U.S. Authorities in the Wake of Soleimani's Death
The Trump administration is treating people of Iranian origin like a potential fifth column.
When Border Defense Becomes Border Offense
Militarized borders and military intervention are two sides of the same coin.
Judge Rules Feds Need Reasonable Suspicion Before Searching Tech Devices at the Border
Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless searches are reduced when entering the country, but they’re not completely erased.
Trump Wanted Snipers and Electrified Spikes to Defend Border Moat Full of Alligators and Snakes, Says New Report
Plus: Rudy Giuliani threatens to sue The Swamp, UPS gets approval for delivery drones, and more...
Biden Gets Pummeled for Obama's Ugly Immigration Record
Plus: Tulsi Gabbard is most searched candidate, Kirsten Gillibrand attacks Biden's record on women, and more...
Incensed by Warrantless Border Searches of Americans' Tech Devices? These Senators Have the Cure.
Ron Wyden and Rand Paul team up to stop Border Patrol from snooping in your stuff without good reason.
The Supreme Court Case That Could Change Immigrant Representation in U.S. Courts
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.
Xenophobia and Pseudoscience Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy
Historian Daniel Okrent looks back at the bigoted "intellectual justification" for anti-immigration policies.
Today's Anti-Immigration Script Was Written 100 Years Ago by America's Elite
Historian Daniel Okrent's new book, The Guarded Gate, recounts the history of bigotry, eugenics, and the "intellectual justification" of anti-immigration policies.
If Trump Closes the Mexican Border, America Will Run Out of Avocados in 3 Weeks
Oh, and the U.S. auto industry wouldn't even last that long.
Kirstjen Nielsen and John Kelly Keep Lying About 'Zero Tolerance' and Child Snatching, While Donald Trump Tells the Truth
The president, unlike his subordinates, admits that family separation was a deliberate policy aimed at deterring illegal border crossing.
Luckily, Trump's Border Speech Was a Big Nothingburger: Reason Roundup
Democrats' response did produce some good memes.
Eight Minutes of Televised Trump Tonight Could Cause Chaos: Reason Roundup
Plus: Israel boycott bill divides Democrats, Cyntoia Brown gets clemency, and the "skills gap" was a lie.
Border Backlog Fuels Human Smuggling Spike: Reason Roundup
Plus: The TSA mask is slipping and government shutdown goes on.
CBP Faces New Scrutiny After Second Child Dies in Their Custody
The agency has announced new policies in response.
An Immigrant Girl's Death in CBP Custody Draws Criticism
"Our Border Patrol stations were built decades ago to handle mostly male single adults in custody, not families and children."
CBP Paid a Contractor $13.6 Million to Hire 2 Agents
$13.6 million might be a drop in the bucket. But this is still incredibly wasteful.
John Kelly Was President Trump's Top Authoritarian Fearmonger. Good Riddance.
Trump's chief of staff was there to add a veneer of respectability to some of the president's worst positions.
Deploying Troops to the Border Is Expensive and Unnecessary, but at Least They're 'Getting Training Out of' It
"Training" is not a good enough justification for spending $200 million to send 8,000 troops to the border.
Pentagon Reportedly Admits Migrant Caravan Doesn't Pose Threat, Might Still Spend $220 Million to Stop It
Trump can probably find someone better to set up barbed wire fences on the border.
Trump Takes Full Ownership of His Anti-immigrant Nativism with Latest Ad
Candidates used to let political operatives do the dirty work so they could appear above it all. Not Trump.
The Trump Administration's Border War Is Actually Catching Fewer Drug Traffickers
This is what happens when "zero tolerance" meets the limitations of government resources.
Canadian Marijuana Users, Workers, Investors Will Face Lifetime Bans from Entering the U.S.
"If you work for the industry, that is grounds for inadmissibility."
If Californians Want to Secede, Americans May Be Ready to Let Them Go
There's growing tolerance for splitting off chunks of what our social studies teachers insisted was an "indivisible" union.
This Border Patrol Agent Resigned After Changing His Mind About Immigration
"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."
