Immigration Archives

Members of the United States Border Patrol check a woman's identification at a Greyhound bus station in Phoenix, Arizona.

Social Justice

Immigrant Rights Groups Are at Odds With Greyhound Over Its Right to Forbid Immigration Enforcement From Entering Buses

The bus company argues it has no choice but to cooperate with Customs and Border Protection agents' searches and interrogation of its passengers.

Massoud Hayoun

Honduran migrants taking part in a caravan heading to the United States cross the Suchiate River, a natural border between Guatemala and Mexico, in a makeshift raft, in Ciudad Tecun Uman, Guatemala, on October 20th, 2018.

News in Brief

The Caravan of Honduran Migrants Reveals the Failures of Deterrent Immigration Policy

The policy doesn't work when migrants are fleeing for their lives.

Jack Herrera

Viewfinder: Hondurans Head North to the U.S.

Migrants carry the flag of Honduras while on a caravan of immigrants en route to the Mexican border on October 18th, 2018, in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Pacific Standard Staff

People eat outside in a Brooklyn neighborhood.

Social Justice

How Increasingly Diverse Neighborhoods Affect White Anxiety

New research shows what happens in the minds of white Americans when they see demographic change—the results were mixed.

Tanvi Misra

A woman receives a flu shot in Chicago, Illinois.

Social Justice

With Flu Season Nearly Here, Medical Experts Warn That Trump’s Immigration Policy Is a Public-Health Threat

Proposed changes by the Trump administration that discourage immigrants from using public services come just ahead of flu season, according to epidemiologists.

Massoud Hayoun

President Donald Trump talks to the press as he leaves the White House on October 9th, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

Social Justice

Research Suggests Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Is Making Americans More Xenophobic

White Americans hold many negative stereotypes about undocumented workers.

Tom Jacobs

A Honduran man walks with his daughter near Metropolitan Detention Center on October 2nd, 2018, in Los Angeles, California.

Social Justice

The Sudden Release of Asylum Seekers Highlights the Trump Administration’s Failure to Respond to a Surge in Family Arrivals

Hundreds of family asylum seekers were released in Arizona this week without shelter, overwhelming churches and non-profits as communities scrambled to accommodate them.

Jack Herrera

Central American immigrant families depart ICE custody in McAllen, Texas, pending future immigration court hearings, in June of 2018.

The Trump Administration’s Proposed Public Charge Rule Is the Next Step in an Ongoing Immigration Crackdown

The rule will impede family-based immigration, but its perceived effects are already widespread—and perhaps even more dangerous.

Emily Moon

Two migrants lean against a rail next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, Mexico, on August 10th, 2018.

Social Justice

How Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Provoking Insecurity at the U.S.-Mexico Border

The administration's mass deportations and refusal to take in escapees from disaster may be fueling organized crime in Tijuana and other border towns.

Massoud Hayoun

An immigration detainee stands near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement grievance box in the high security unit at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, California, on March 14th, 2017.

What You Need to Know About the ACLU’s Case Against the Mandatory Detention of Immigrants

The case—Brett Kavanaugh's first as a Supreme Court justice—deals with mandatory detention laws to keep immigrants in prisons during trials, even if they aren't a public danger or flight risk.

Jack Herrera