Immigration

Political communication scholars explain how, for Trump, telling lies, shifting blame, and asserting his own greatness help him keep his core supporters.

Protesters took to the streets at more than 140 events across the United States on Monday to oppose President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the country's southern border.

Recent polling reveals that most Americans oppose the expansion of the border wall, and two-thirds oppose Trump using emergency powers to fund its construction.

We've highlighted Pacific Standard's best stories on the national emergency over a border wall.

What the agency actually wants is the funding to detain more people than ever before.

Immigration activists shout slogans as they protest outside Trump International Hotel during a march on February 12th, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

At the heart of the confrontation is the National Guard's unique role in the country's armed forces.

In his State of the Union, President Donald Trump honored a survivor of both the Holocaust and the Tree of Life shooting. Now, a Jewish refugee advocate says Trump is sending mixed messages.

For a politician who wants to trigger nativist revulsion, a metaphor can be as effective as an explicit insult.

As a result of the shutdown, an estimated 80,000 court hearings will have to be rescheduled.

As a Honduran man was returned to Mexico under the new plan, questions remained unanswered on both sides of the border.

ICE officers have expanded their scope to target all undocumented immigrants, regardless of background.

The Catholic Church's youth rally has drawn 200,000 pilgrims from around the world to Panama City.

Due to Trump administration policies, upwards of 6,000 children were held at the Texas facility over its lifetime. It was the largest migrant child shelter in the country.

The Supreme Court just granted Dreamers a lifeline.

Multiple courts across the country have issued injunctions preventing to the administration from repealing DACA. But that does not mean the program has been saved.

Members of a caravan of Central American migrants walk along a highway on their way toward the United States on January 20th, 2019, in Huixtla, Mexico.

Colleen Kraft repeatedly warned the government that migrant children were in danger during her year as president of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her worst fears were realized when two children died in government custody at the end of her term.

After a judge blocked the administration's attempt to categorically deny asylum to those fleeing domestic violence and gang violence, administration officials acquiesced and sent out new guidance to asylum officers and immigration judges.

Immigrant rights groups rejoiced as authorities reunited a Guatemalan woman and her daughter Friday.

Drugs enter through official ports and Border Patrol checkpoints, not through the open land where walls might be built.

Numbers offer the clearest picture of the situation at the border.

Following the president's primetime address, we collected Pacific Standard's most pertinent stories on immigration, border security, and the wall proposal.

In the president's Tuesday night address, he claimed Democrats supported barriers but changed their tune once he took office.