Massoud Hayoun is a contributing writer to Pacific Standard.
Lawmakers are decrying what some say appears to have been an orchestrated attempt by immigration enforcement to coax Samuel Oliver-Bruno out of sanctuary.
Advocates estimate there are dozens of similar cases of immigrant parents separated from their children who have American citizenship.
While many Christians are struggling to offer immigrants sanctuary, others are in favor of the Trump administration's immigration policies.
At best, the issue of Uyghur re-education camps will come up as leverage to achieve Trump's economic policy objectives with Beijing, analysts predict.
New research finds that residents of the Southeast, Midwest, and Mountain Northwest are more likely to view the caravan as a threat than their counterparts in the Northeast and Southwest—where immigrants make up a larger share of the local population.
Months after Los Angeles denied federal funding to surveil its communities, the California government is poised to pay non-profits to do the same.
The convenience store giant may have played a role in immigration enforcement sweeps at franchises across the country.
Indigenous high schoolers are organizing to let their families vote in an election they argue is designed to block them from the polls.
It now appears Native American North Dakotans are unable to vote, even when they have proof of their residential addresses.
Activists fear that, by publishing a piece that sympathizes with a far-right group, the paper is promoting hateful, potentially violent rhetoric.
The bus company argues it has no choice but to cooperate with Customs and Border Protection agents' searches and interrogation of its passengers.
Proposed changes by the Trump administration that discourage immigrants from using public services come just ahead of flu season, according to epidemiologists.
Rights activists are urging communities of color to get creative about circumventing attempts to suppress their vote ahead of next month's decisive mid-term elections.
The administration's mass deportations and refusal to take in escapees from disaster may be fueling organized crime in Tijuana and other border towns.
On the verge of a Kavanaugh confirmation, immigrant rights advocates doubt the courts will continue to uphold protections against what one judge this week called racist policymaking.
A court decision in favor of an Orange County city seeking to exempt itself from the California Values Act likely marks the escalation of a protracted legal standoff.
With Jeff Sessions reportedly pressuring judges to deport immigrants, diocese across the country are gathering fee money for the legal representation that many undocumented people lack.
Other Asian-American advocacy organizations applaud attempts to secure access to education for communities of color.
The government is reportedly sending undocumented immigrants court summonses with false dates that rights defenders say are designed to skirt a recent Supreme Court ruling.
A group of immigration judges is skeptical about the attorney general's promise to add more to their ranks—part of an apparent attempt to slash a growing backlog of cases.
China has used the U.S.'s Global War on Terror as a pretext to further repress the embattled Muslim minority.
The battle to commemorate Japanese-American incarceration in northern California comes as Congress is set to deliberate whether to continue to fund such sites nationwide.
Immigrant rights advocates say the GOP is simply looking to capitalize on the Trump administration's apparent hostility to immigrants to motivate voters ahead of the November mid-term elections.
Immigration authorities are now making it dangerous for non-citizen abuse victims to seek legal protections from their aggressors.
Rights advocates suggest the president's hostile rhetoric and policies on American Muslims jeopardize his administration's ability to advocate against abuses abroad.
Most of the Islamophobic incidents detailed in a new report involved restricted travel following the administration's repeated attempts to enact a travel ban affecting people from Muslim-majority nations.
The social media company says it's working to resolve concerns that the policy will silence countless activists, particularly undocumented people decrying the Trump administration.
Three decades after their movement garnered a government apology for their wartime incarceration, Japanese-American community leaders are still battling for civil liberties for all Americans.
The Trump family's business ties have magnified controversy surrounding Washington's EB-5 visa program for wealthy immigrants.
Islamophobic incidents are up, but so is Muslim-American engagement in politics.
By law, Nixon cannot, and Ocasio-Cortez would face overwhelming opposition from fellow lawmakers, analysts say.
But analysts anticipate the war between Sacramento and Washington will go to the Supreme Court.
The Trump administration has directed funds originally intended to counter radicalization—including white nationalist violence—toward the targeted surveillance of Muslim communities.
Activists behind the movement say their ranks are swelling by the day with people opposed to the White House's raids and separation of immigrant families.
Trump's call to modify Flores v. Reno follows similar gestures by the administration that could keep more kids in detention for longer.
The administration's weaponization of ICE may hurt its existing lawsuit against the Golden State's sanctuary protections, analysts say.
The ACLU warns that a new rule allowing the government to look into potential guardians' immigration status will leave the children with nowhere to go but detention facilities.
The attorney general's decision to bar domestic abuse survivors from obtaining asylum seems out of step with a country engaged in a burgeoning movement against assault, advocates say.
Muslim-American leaders are suspicious of an administration that they say is hostile to their communities at home and abroad.
As questions of children left unaccounted for by immigration authorities mount, rights advocates say the Trump administration's separation of parents and children remains the real issue.
In the fight over immigration policy, the state and its municipal opponents are gearing up for a series of legal battles.
Lawsuits challenging earlier TPS cancelations charge the Trump administration was guided not by calculations over the nations' safety, but by racism.
The Department of Homeland Security maintains that it does not habitually separate detained asylum-seekers from their children without just cause.
The Trump administration is appealing earlier court decisions securing due process for the Iraqi nationals and preventing them from what advocates say is unlawful detention.
Analysts say the decision breaks the Trump administration's promise to cut the immigration court backlog.
Opinions vary on the ethics of Trump's weekend airstrikes, but everyone agrees that they will do little to halt the Assad administration's reported use of chemical weapons.
A bid by Republican legislators to identify residents' immigration status on state-issued identification would have marked them for discriminatory policing, activists say.
The San Gabriel City Council just voted in favor of a resolution to bar local authorities from supporting federal immigration enforcement.
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno reportedly responded to the South Congregational's sanctuary project by calling for the city to look into whether the church's housing facility was up to code.
Zinke's Japanese-language gaffe shows his true colors when it comes to who can truly be considered American.