Undocumented Immigrants

The number of people arrested crossing the southern border skyrocketed last month, according to new statistics. But what's happening is more complicated than the numbers show.

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.

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

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.

Immigrant rights analysts warn that there's much room for error in the SSA's records—and that notifications could cost people their jobs.

Jin Park, a Harvard pre-med student, became the first DACA recipient to win a Rhodes Scholarship after a rule change made him eligible.

Social science (and history) shows that repealing birthright citizenship is rarely an effective solution for an overburdened nation.

A new report reveals disorganization and a lack of communication between the government agencies responsible for apprehending undocumented migrants and caring for migrant children separated from their families.

The Department of Justice urged a federal appeals court to overturn a judge's order blocking officials from restricting abortion access for minors in immigrant detention.

Despite its numerous failures in keeping the children it's housing safe, an Arizona facility may keep its federal funding due to a lack of other options.

Conservatives see Mollie Tibbetts' murder as proof of a need for more stringent immigration policies. Here's why they're wrong.

The end of the contract comes amid concerns that customs enforcement was using the information to target law-abiding undocumented immigrants.

The Victims of Immigration Crime (VOICE) office's quarterly report offers case studies, but it does not include statistics on crime rates.

Interviews with numerous former employees at facilities run by Southwest Key network, the largest licensed shelter provider for immigrant children caught crossing the border.

Former Department of Homeland Security official Peter Boogaard weighs in on immigration policy under Trump.

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

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.

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.

Acceding to a request from the Trump administration, the Supreme Court has voided a federal appeals court's ruling upholding the right of teens in immigration custody to seek abortions.

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

A political philosopher investigates the question of how a citizenship question on the 2020 census could create bias in public policy that would lead to injustice.

Border Patrol agent Robert Rodriguez tracks for signs of undocumented immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas, on March 26th, 2018.