A Sneak Peek at Trump’s New Travel Ban
After an appeals court suspended parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning certain travelers and refugees from…
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‘Pacific Standard,’ March/April 2017
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The True Cost of Mass Deportations Is Worse Than You Think
It’s American taxpayers who will bear the economic burdens of Trump’s immigration enforcement plans. By Jared Keller People…
Mexican Official Says Deporting Non-Mexicans to Mexico Is a ‘Non-Starter’
Key Mexican officials have emphatically rejected the latest Trump administration immigration proposal. By Marcelo Rochabrun U.S. Secretary of…
Even a Suspended Ban Puts This Iraqi Interpreter’s American Dream at Risk
An interpreter who risked his life working for the U.S. Marines is worried what leaving the country might…
What Life Is Like for Haitian Refugees in Tijuana
Despite Trump’s proposed wall, Haitians living in the shadows of Tijuana plan to risk dangerous journeys to make it to the U.S.
ICE Officials Arrested an Immigrant Protected by Obama‘s Executive Order
It’s still unclear if ICE officials meant to arrest a DACA participant last week, but it could be…
How One Iraqi Medical Student Made It to the U.S. Despite the Travel Ban
Four days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning people from seven Middle Eastern countries…
How Immigration Raids Lead to Lower Birth Weights
Researchers investigate the strange aftermath of the Postville raid. By Nathan Collins The slaughterhouse and meat packing plant…
Two Syrian Twins Were Separated by the Assad Regime in 1984 — Now They’re Reunited in Chicago
The Sarraj brothers spent 12 years apart—one as a free man, the other in the depths of Syria’s…