Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Urgent action is needed to rein in this part of DHS that has too much power and is subject to too little oversight.

The act needs work, but could set a new standard in limiting Interpol abuse for assassinations, abductions, financial blacklisting and more.

Creating DHS, escalated the adversarial approach to immigration by blurring the lines between national security and immigration enforcement.

The president may ultimately be judged not on any so-called border “crisis,” but for whether he remains true to his principles in the face of opposition.

The administration has the authority to protect people and comply with international law and best practices. That requires concrete steps immediately.

If we want to re-build a better, stronger immigration system, we need to start with immigration courts.

An under-reported policy change has left asylum-seekers in inhumane detention conditions, unable to access legal counsel. The Biden administration must end the policy.

The abuses they faced under the Trump administration's immigration policy echo those revealed in a new Human Rights Watch investigation.

Trump’s immigration policy increasingly undermines U.S. foreign policy goals, as seen with the recent deportation of Cameroonian asylum-seekers.

In the next installment of our President and Immigration Law series, Tom Jawetz argues that an unnecessarily narrow concept of “enforcement" frames appropriate administrative…

Next in our President and Immigration Law series, Josiah Heyman explores how an emphasis on enforcement transforms U.S. borderlands into enforcement zones of maximal executive…

Next in our series on The President and Immigration Law, Margo Schlanger argues that the current immigration detention regime – a co-production of Congress and the executive…