"Answering the Call": Arizona Law's Maria Elena Cruz Makes History on Arizona Supreme Court
Arizona latest state to consider bounties to aid Trump deportations
Arizona's legislature is set to vote on legislation to pay police $2,500 for every illegal immigrant they help deport, marking it the latest U.S. state to consider bounties to support President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies.
4 things to know about the Alien Enemies Act and Trump's efforts to use it
President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua members, provoking a legal fight. Here's what to know about the controversial law, which was last used during World War II.
Trump Targets Law Firms Over Steele Dossier, Diversity Moves (1)
President Donald Trump on Thursday suspended security clearances for Perkins Coie and ordered investigations of at least 15 law firms over diversity programs.
The hidden truth about migrant deaths at the Canada-U.S. border
Tougher Canadian border measures in response to Donald Trump’s threats may make crossings more dangerous for migrants.
When the Door Slammed Shut
Heraldo’s parents and two-year-old brother had arrived in Nogales, Sonora, a few days earlier, two months after fleeing their village in Venezuela.
Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Consequences’ by Manuel Muñoz
Broken into ten short stories, “The Consequences” takes place in California’s Central Valley in the 1980s. The frank stories depict Mexican and Mexican American laborers, their families, their enemies, and their communities. La Migra hangs like a spirit over each story -- sometimes seen, but always felt. “The Consequences” succeeds in bringing humanity back to a group of people that have been relegated to a “mass” – mass deportations, mass raids, mass arrests, mass round-ups – by the United States government. “It may not seem political,” says Muñoz, “But the very act of confronting one human being and understanding their situation? Absolutely.”
What Mexican firefighters tell us about U.S.-Mexico relations | Analysis - Click pic for more:
U.S. and Mexican officials have spent decades building trust and confidence, and the presence of Mexican firefighters in Los Angeles is the product of the often invisible diplomatic and technical cooperation that breaks down historical barriers and overcomes bureaucratic hurdles.
Arizonans aren't anti-immigrant. These polls reveal our real border concerns
UA professor Samara Klar has conducted polling on immigration for years. She says while Arizonans might have for Trump on the promise of mass deportations, they’re not anti-immigrant.
‘It’s an absolute travesty’: fears for border wildlife as Trump takes office
Environmentalists are braced for new construction on the president’s signature border wall – and the damage that would wreak
Arizona latest state to consider bounties to aid Trump deportations
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - Arizona's legislature is set to vote on legislation to pay police $2,500 for every illegal immigrant they help deport, marking it the latest U.S. state to consider bounties to support President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies. Arizona's so-called bounty bill would be paid for by taxing international money transfers and has a good chance of passing the
President Petersen Calls on Arizona's Public Universities to End Illegal, Discriminatory DEI Programs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 10, 2025President Petersen Calls on Arizona's Public Universitiesto End Illegal, Discriminatory DEI Programs PHOENIX, ARIZONA— Senate President Warren Petersen is calling on Arizona's public universities to end all illegal Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) programs, and to restore commonsense merit-based opportunities for students, faculty, and staff. In a letter sent today to A
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No court, no hearing: Trump revives fast-track deportations, expands reach nationwide
The Trump administration has revived a border security policy that legal experts say paves the way for mass deportations — without even a court hearing — and threatens to put Latino Arizonans, regardless of their citizenship status, at risk of racial profiling and removal from the country. On Friday, the White House officially reinstated a […]
Democrats in full retreat on immigration
John Fetterman, whose wife was famously undocumented, now pushing to deport people like her
Trump immigration proposals could hurt public safety, experts say
Legal experts and researchers say incoming President Donald Trump's promised mass deportations could actually end up undermining goals of public safety and national security.
Trump's Homeland Security Dept. OKs immigration raids at schools, churches
The Homeland Security Department has scrapped a Biden policy that kept immigration authorities away from sensitive community places.
Attorney General Mayes Files Lawsuit Against Trump’s Unconstitutional Order on Birthright Citizenship
PHOENIX — Attorney General Kris Mayes announced today that she is joining a multistate federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional order attempting to unilaterally strip citizenship from citizens across the United States, including thousands of babies born in Arizona each year.
Unbuild walls : why immigrant justice needs abolition - Silky Shah
"In the wake of post-9/11 xenophobia, Obama's record-level deportations, Trump's immigration policies, and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice, the US remains entrenched in a circular discourse regarding migrant justice. As organizer Silky Shah argues in Unbuild Walls, we must move beyond building nicer cages or advocating for comprehensive immigration reform. Our only hope for creating a liberated society for all, she insists, is abolition. Unbuild Walls dives into US immigration policy and its relationship to mass incarceration, from the last forty years up to the present, showing how the prison-industrial complex and immigration enforcement are intertwined systems of repression. Incorporating historical and legal analyses, Shah's personal experience as an organizer, as well as stories of people, campaigns, organizations, and localities that have resisted detention and deportation, Shah assesses the movement's strategies, challenges, successes, and shortcomings. Featuring a foreword by Amna A. Akbar, Unbuild Walls is an expansive and radical intervention, bridging the gaps between movements for immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition." --
Border enforcement policies are effective—at driving up migrant deaths
Enforcement tactics do not in the end deter asylum seekers, who are typically fleeing life-threatening circumstances, but stricter enforcement does push border crossers to more dangerous paths.
Journal on Migration and Human Security - Volume 12, Number 3, Sep 01, 2024
Table of contents for Journal on Migration and Human Security, 12, 3, Sep 01, 2024
Sanctuary cities respond to Trump deportation plans: ‘We’re preparing to defend our communities’
Leaders from Los Angeles to Chicago organize in preparation of a vengeance-filled Trump agenda
ACLU of Arizona Statement on the Passage of Proposition 314
Arizona voters have approved Proposition 314, a sweeping and divisive law that will incite the discrimination and harassment of immigrants, Latine communities, and people of color. The ACLU of
The Looming Fight to Make Local Cops Part of Trump’s Deportation Machine
Arizona voted to grant state and local police the authority to make immigration arrests, going against Supreme Court precedent.
Arizona Border Measure Stays Below Radar Despite Immigrant Furor
Arizona voters will decide Nov. 5 whether to make illegal border crossings a state crime in a ballot measure that has drawn little public debate.
The Immigration Lawyer Who Helped Too Many People
In Tucson, a legendary attorney was suspended for two years from representing clients in immigration court. Was the punishment warranted?
Undocumented Immigration: The Reality Behind Rising Concerns
As immigration emerges as a top election issue, our corps members documented the complex truth about immigration to the United States
Language brokers : children of immigrants translating inequality and belonging for their families - Hyeyoung Kwon
"How successfully families in the U.S. navigate various institutional contexts frequently relies on a parent's ability to be continuously available for and capable of supporting their children. But what happens when one or both parents are immigrants who have limited English proficiency? This us the case for two-thirds of immigrant families in the U.S., and more often than not the children in these families must support their parents by acting as "language brokers," or translators, often in high-stakes situations. In Language Brokers, Hyeyoung Kwon shines a light on these lived realities for working-class Mexican- and Korean-American youth in Southern California. Focusing especially on healthcare and criminal justice contexts, Kwon shows that the work of translating is about much more than just words. These children learn early about the harsh financial realities their parents face. They are burdened with portraying their parents as "normal" Americans who deserve full citizenship rights, not as inassimilable and undeserving free riders of social welfare. Kwon's stirring account proves that, as long as immigrants' values and behaviors are blamed for what are actually structural problems, children of immigrants will have to perform Americanness to cultivate a sense of belonging"--
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UA exhibit of photos, poetry shows Tohono O’odham transformed by U.S.-Mexico border
The Show's Sam Dingman visits the "The Place Where Clouds Are Formed" exhibit and asks the co-curators about the stories behind the effort to illustrate a heavily guarded barrier between two regions of the ancestral O’odham homelands.