Immigration Archives

A mother and child await transport to a processing center for undocumented immigrants on July 24th, 2014, in Mission, Texas.

Social Justice

Advocates Fear the New Trump Administration Rule Will Keep Migrant Children in Detention for Even Longer

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.

Massoud Hayoun

Social Justice

Immigrant Rights Advocates Say Jeff Sessions Is ‘Trivializing Domestic Violence’

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.

Massoud Hayoun

A man is searched while being in-processed at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement center on April 28th, 2010, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Social Justice

Immigration Agencies Are Facing Accusations of Rampant Racial Profiling

But holding the agents accountable has proven especially difficult considering the accusers are often undocumented immigrants with limited legal rights.

Kavitha Surana

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, pictured here in February of 2017.

Social Justice

A Ruling by Jeff Sessions Could Keep Abuse Victims From Claiming Asylum

The ruling will likely be challenged by immigration advocates, who have continually pushed back against Sessions' efforts to tighten immigration laws.

Rebecca Worby

Social Justice

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.

Ashley Hackett

Hundreds of immigrant rights advocates and others participate in a rally at the Federal Building in lower Manhattan against the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy on June 1st, 2018.

Social Justice

The Immigration Stories You Should Be Watching

#WhereAreTheChildren has been making headlines, but there's much more going on.

Ashley Hackett

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.

Ashley Hackett

News in Brief

ICE Agents Arrest More Than 100 Employees at an Ohio Landscaping Company

The raid was one of the largest stings in recent years.

Kate Wheeling

An undocumented immigrant from Peru holds her son at their home on June 6th, 2017, in Thornton, Colorado.

Social Justice

Uncovering the Truth Behind #WhereAreTheChildren

Amid the outrage over missing migrant children, some of the facts have gotten murky.

Ashley Hackett

The Supreme Court has agreed to bypass lower appeals courts and review a case about a question on the 2020 census asking about citizenship status.

Social Justice

Immigrant Rights Groups File a Lawsuit Challenging the Census’ Citizenship Question

The suit's plaintiffs say the question could discourage certain ethnic minorities from completing the census due to fears that their responses could be used against them.

Rebecca Worby