Tag: US immigration
How ‘dreamers’ and green card lottery winners strengthen the US economy
Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College
While President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have long decried illegal immigration and proposed remedies like the wall and mass...
Post-DACA: How Congress can replace Obama’s program and make it even...
Wayne Cornelius, University of California, San Diego
President Donald Trump has asked Congress to do what former President Barack Obama and his Deferred Action for...
Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrants 90 years ago: Why the global...
Moshik Temkin, Harvard University
Ninety years ago, on Aug. 23, 1927, two Italian immigrants were executed.
The deaths of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the...
Arpaio pardon could encourage more civil rights violations
Steven Mulroy, University of Memphis
President Donald Trump may pardon Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who illegally used racial profiling to enforce immigration laws.
It’s...
Is the US immigration court system broken?
Lindsay M. Harris, University of the District of Columbia
In the U.S. today, a single immigration case takes an average of 677 days...
San Francisco is using a Montana sheriff’s playbook to sue Trump...
Anthony Johnstone, The University of Montana
San Francisco is suing over President Donald Trump’s executive order against “sanctuary cities.” A federal court hearing...
Educating children in Guatemala before they decide to migrate to the...
Carmen Monico, Elon University
On March 8, 40 girls were killed in a fire at a home for abused youth in Guatemala. More...
The rise of anti-immigrant attitudes, violence and nationalism in Costa Rica
Caitlin Fouratt, California State University, Long Beach
Costa Rica is often thought of as the “Switzerland of the Americas.”
With a stable...