The latest stories on the Trump administration's policy to separate immigrant parents from their children at border crossings.

In keeping with our commitment to promoting open and equal access to justice for all, we at the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library have assembled a list of online resources to help answer questions regarding the United States immigration process. Some of the resources provided are availa

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Border Patrol agents in Arizona have confiscated the turbans of dozens of Sikh men seeking asylum in the US, violating their civil rights and government policies, the ACLU says in a letter calling for an end to the practice.

Questions remain if the containers will act as a deterrent for migrants hoping to cross the border

When President Barack Obama introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012, it was a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the country illegally as children, so-called “Dreamers.”But for many of the years since, it has been in legal limbo — challenged in the courts, thrown out by the Trump administration — but so far, it’s survived.Now, the future of the program known as DACA lies in the hands of an appeals court panel of judges in New Orleans.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced an effort to stack more shipping containers to form a wall along the Mexico border, weeks after the federal government said some containers were placed illegally.

By Michael McArthur The final day of the 2022 IALL Annual Course opened with an eye-opening review of U.S. immigration law and policy, presented by the founding director of Stanford’s Immigrants’ R…

Lake and Hobbs' plans for border security and immigration vary widely.

The Covid-19 pandemic has spotlighted the crisis low wage immigrant and migrant (“im/migrant”) workers face when caught between the century-long collision betwe

DETAINED is an ongoing collaboration among former immigrant detainees, the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP), and the University of Arizona (UA) that collects and publicly archives the oral histories of asylum seekers formerly incarcerated by immigration authorities in Arizona. The multilingual, open-access archive, hosted by the UA Libraries, maintains a tangible record that counters the vast emergent landscape of the for-profit immigrant detention industry. This community archive is one of the few forums for former detainees to share their experiences, helping to fundamentally shift the historical narrative of immigration to the United States.

The Cocopah Indian Tribe says the state of Arizona acted against its wishes by stacking shipping containers on its land to prevent illegal border crossings.

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Welcome to the Global Detention Project's blog tracking the latest developments in migration-related detention practices and policies, urgent appeals, and emerging situations across the globe.

The fight for Black women’s equal pay must address race and gender biases that erode Black women’s wages and undermine their ability to thrive.

In this report, poverty rates are summarized by race and Hispanic origin for the United States, each state, and the District of Columbia.

ICE is turning away Arizona lawyers from immigration detention centers if they don’t have their own protective equipment.

Authorities lowered the death toll on Tuesday evening from 40 to 38 following visits to hospitals across Ciudad Juarez, where victims of the fire had been taken.

Muslims make up a little over one percent of the U.S. population, but they seem to take up an outsized space in the American imagination. On this episode we explore why that is.

Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik talks about the “ghoulish routine” in the media and among politicians that increasingly emerges in the aftermath of massacres of Muslims by white supremacists. The Intercept’s Murtaza Hussain explains why, as a non-white Western Muslim, he felt compelled to analyze the “manifesto” of the shooter. University of Chicago historian Kathleen Belew, author of “Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America,” discusses the history of white power movements and why she draws a distinction between white power and white supremacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Tuesday the Supreme Court handed the president a huge victory in Trump v. Hawaii, the case challenging the legality of his executive order barring citizens of five Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. The verdict upholding the ban generated a wave of condemnation across the country. On this special episode of Deconstructed, Mehdi Hasan speaks with Keith Ellison, the first Muslim-American ever elected to Congress, as well as Yemeni-American community organizer and anti-ban activist Debbie Almontaser. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three years after President Trump first issued his Muslim ban—an executive order banning travel from several mostly Muslim countries—its dangerous impacts continue to grow, further institutionalizing xenophobia and Islamophobia in the U.S. Here’s what you need to know.

U.S. Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-27) and U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), authors of the NO BAN Act, released the following statements in response to reports that the White House is considering expanding its Muslim Ban to additional countries. “The Muslim Ban is a dangerous policy rooted in bigotry and xenophobia, sold to the American public through misinformation and innuendo. That is why we are fighting back with the one thing Donald Trump’s policy lacks most: evidence,” said Rep. Chu.

As we counter Trump’s white nationalist agenda, it’s important that we never accept this racist policy. Here’s what you can do.

The ‘NO BAN Act’ has broad support among Democratic legislators but is unlikely to advance in the Republican Senate.

President-elect has pledged to immediately halt travel restrictions imposed by the Trump administration.

The Trump administration expanded its controversial travel ban to six new countries Friday, sparking widespread condemnation from civil rights groups who claim the new restrictions are motivated not by national security but anti-Muslim bias.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday let three American Muslim men sue several FBI agents who they accused of placing them on the government's "no-fly list" for refusing to become informants, rejecting a challenge to the lawsuit by President Donald Trump's administration.

On January 27, 2017, one week into his presidency, Donald Trump enacted Executive Order No. 13769, popularly known as the “Muslim Ban.” The Order named seven Muslim-majority nations and restricted, effective immediately, the reentry into the United States of visa and green card holders from these states.