Last week, Wisconsin Judge Lynn Adelman struck down Wisconsin’s voter ID law, ruling that it violated the 14th Amendment and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. According to Adelman, the law would have affected about 300,000 registered Wisconsin voters … Continued
This week, two Colorado sheriffs announced that they will stop honoring requests from Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold immigrant detainees. The sheriffs join a growing number of Oregon counties and the city of Philadelphia as the latest municipalities … Continued
Earlier this week, the UN released a report revealing that significant measures are urgently needed to avoid an environmental and humanitarian disaster. Meanwhile, some population control extremists are manipulating environmental discourse to blame immigrants for climate change. In our haste … Continued
Authors Guy Abel and Nikola Sander show data on 196 countries from 1990 through 2010 In the United States, many of us think of immigration flows only in relation to our southern border. If we stretch a bit, we … Continued
In advance of immigrant rights mobilizations planned for April 5, an anti-immigrant think tank published a misleading report titled “Catch and Release.” In the report, author Jessica Vaughan accuses the Obama administration of releasing “68,000 convicted criminal aliens” in 2013 … Continued
In Florida, the House is expected to vote today on one of many bills that would allow undocumented residents to pay the same tuition rates as other Florida students. On Tuesday, a Senate education committee narrowly approved a similar … Continued
Yesterday was the official launch of a campaign to end the bed mandate, a little known provision in the federal budget that requires the US to lock up 34,000 immigrants each day. This bed mandate, or quota, is rolled into … Continued
As state and local policies that would roll back entanglements between local law enforcement and ICE authorities advance, anti-immigrant groups have honed their messaging in order to dupe the public and to block common-sense legislation. A recent district court ruling … Continued
Last week, a series of disturbing photos surfaced, depicting border patrol agents showing children to shoot targets that look like migrants. Ironically, the photos were taken at a 5K run and community event in San Diego last June, designed to … Continued
Yesterday, residents of Fremont, Nebraska voted to keep a discriminatory ordinance designed to drive undocumented immigrants out of town. The two-part policy bars undocumented immigrants from working and renting in town. Originally approved in 2010 by a popular vote, the … Continued