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In a Desperate Search for Detention Space, the U.S. Moves 1,600 Immigrants to Federal Prisons

Over the weekend, 1,600 people being detained at the border were transferred to federal prisons because current detention infrastructure can no longer house the overwhelming number of detainees.

Demonstrators protest Trump administration policy that enables federal agents to separate undocumented migrant children from their parents at the border on June 5th, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.

Social Justice

U.S. Border Stations Are Now Overflowing With Migrant Children

Customs and Border Protection agents are running out of space to shelter the hundreds of migrant children who have been separated from their parents at the United States border as part of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy.

Pro-migrant caravan demonstrators rally on the Mexican side of the border wall on April 29th, 2018, in San Diego, California.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Protesting the Border Wall in San Diego

Pro-migrant caravan demonstrators rally on the Mexican side of the border wall on April 29th, 2018, in San Diego, California.

Pacific Standard Staff

A view of the U.S.-Mexican border fence at Playas de Tijuana in Tijuana, Mexico.

Economics

Why National Borders Are Bad for Workers

As long as national borders are strictly enforced, workers at the bottom of the labor ladder will be pitted against one another.

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Taking Freedom: ‘Build That Wall!’: A Local History

On how politics and fear, rather than the day-to-day risks and realities of life at the U.S.-Mexico border, have historically shaped border policies.

Remains of the former border wall stand at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse on February 5th, 2018, in Berlin, Germany. It has been 10,316 days since the Berlin Wall officially fell, the same number of days that it stood between 1961 and 1989.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: The Berlin Wall Has Been Down for Longer Than It Stood During the Cold War

Remains of the former border wall stand at the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse on February 5th, 2018, in Berlin, Germany.

Pacific Standard Staff

A migrant child watches behind the main door of a shelter in Tapachula, Mexico, where he's taken a rest during his attempt to reach the border between Mexico and the United States.

Social Justice

Crossing the Border as an Unaccompanied Child

For unaccompanied migrant children, the only thing harder than crossing the border is the journey back home.

Economics

Over 730 Companies Join the List of Vendors Interested in Trump’s Border Wall

Customs and Border Protection will now sift through those vendors’ proposals.

Israeli soldiers patrol in East Jerusalem along the concrete separation barrier bordering Abu Dis, West Bank, in 2006.

News in Brief

A Tour of Contested Walls Around the World

It’s not just Trump's proposed border: We live in a wall-building age.

News in Brief

The U.S. Immigration System Is Only Getting Worse

Too many migrant children entering the country are effectively doomed to bureaucratic limbo. By Jared Keller A boy…

Pacific Standard Staff