Jeff Sessions

Advocates argue that asylum seekers aren't just fleeing domestic abuse—they're fleeing gender-based violence.

• By Jack Herrera

Before leaving office, Sessions signed an order to ensure that the Department of Justice disengaged from its role in investigating and reforming police departments that repeatedly violate citizens' civil rights.

• By Ian MacDougall

Here's how Sessions, who resigned Wednesday at Trump's request, will be remembered.

• By Kate Wheeling

Anyone who enters the U.S. has a right to claim asylum, but the process isn't easy.

• By Emma Sarappo

With Jeff Sessions reportedly pressuring judges to deport immigrants, diocese across the country are gathering fee money for the legal representation that many undocumented people lack.

• By Massoud Hayoun

The government is reportedly sending undocumented immigrants court summonses with false dates that rights defenders say are designed to skirt a recent Supreme Court ruling.

• By Massoud Hayoun

The real harm against disabled Americans isn't the president's ableist rhetoric; it's his ableist policies.

• By David M. Perry

A group of immigration judges is skeptical about the attorney general's promise to add more to their ranks—part of an apparent attempt to slash a growing backlog of cases.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Immigration authorities are now making it dangerous for non-citizen abuse victims to seek legal protections from their aggressors.

• By Massoud Hayoun

The proposal follows several other efforts to combat the ongoing epidemic on both the state and federal levels—some more effective than others.

• By Emily Moon

After a year of battle in the courts, young immigrants fear that their protection from deportation could soon end.

• By Jack Herrera

Essentially, normal assumptions about judicial independence and freedom from political influence do not apply in immigration proceedings.

• By Fatma Marouf

Marches occur across the country while, simultaneously, children and families are detained at the U.S. border.

• By Ashley Hackett

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.

• By Massoud Hayoun

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

• By Rebecca Worby

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

• By Ashley Hackett

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

• By Ashley Hackett

As of September of 2018, over 350,000 immigration cases had been closed and never re-opened, saving some immigrants from deportation and allowing judges to move through cases more quickly.

• By Ashley Hackett

The research the attorney general drew his conclusions from had some serious flaws.

• By Ashley Hackett

A new "zero tolerance" border enforcement policy will launch a crackdown on people crossing the border illegally.

• By Ashley Hackett

Several Republican senators agree a hearing is necessary to ensure that the former FBI deputy director's ousting was not politically motivated.

• By Kate Wheeling

The attorney general vowed to use the Department of Justice to confront America's gun problem. Well, sort of.

• By Jared Keller

In Massachusetts, state officials are looking to utilize sanctuary laws similar to those used for immigration to protect the legalization of cannabis.

• By Teresa Mathew

McCabe has been a frequent target of President Donald Trump's ire.

• By Kate Wheeling