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…

The coronavirus crisis should not function as a cover for repressive action under the guise of protecting health, especially in already vulnerable populations.

The vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers has been long recognized, yet the vast majority of countries have not even included refugees and asylum seekers in their pandemic…

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.

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…