Immigration

The president may have power to suspend immigration given the Supreme Court's green light. The key question is about abuse of that power.

"We asked six infectious disease epidemiology experts to respond to the CDC's public health justifications for closing the border to asylum seekers." Their unanimous response:…

Relying on obscure 1944 provision that provides no such authority, CDC tries to block all asylum seekers and unaccompanied minors in violation of congressional statutes, writes…

Some of the sharpest critics of the Trump administration’s immigration policies are the former immigration judges who were once charged with enforcing them. But there’s a reason…

Rare opportunity to criminally prosecute a person implicated in extremely grave human rights abuses in a U.S. court.

Labeling highly militarized, defense-based policies as forms of migration “deterrence” masks their true nature.

While observers of the Middle East focus on the spiraling escalation of US-Iran tensions, a humanitarian crisis with potentially far greater consequences is rapidly unfolding in…

Nationality-based restrictions will separate families and are the wrong tool to promote public safety and national security.

The Trump administration has established its wall on the U.S.- Mexico border without putting one brick in place.

Exclusions to refugee status in U.S. law -- originally developed to prevent Nazi war criminals from attaining asylum -- have dramatically expanded in scope, preventing many innocent…

While Gambia wrestles with its past and decides how to hold those accused of human rights violations to account, the United States must similarly determine what to do with a former…

A complaint to the ICC on Australia's detention practices highlights a very clear risk that this precedent represents an emerging global normalcy of human degradation when it comes…