• H-1B VISAS
    Clara Fong and Diana Roy

    The H-1B visa program has helped fill gaps in critical sectors like health care and technology, though it has faced criticism that it adversely affects American workers. The Trump administration’s move to sharply increase the fee for new H-1B petitions has raised concerns about its potential effects on the U.S. economy.

  • CLIMATE & MIGRATION
    Ula Chrobak

    How does climate change affect human migration and what does it mean for border policies? Learn about the complex relationship between weather and cross-border migration across different demographic groups, and the role for future policies.

  • DEPORTATION BUSINESS
    Avi Asher-Schapiro, Jeff Ernsthausen and Mica Rosenberg

    A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said.

  • SURVEILLANCE
    Barbara Barrett

    The Trump administration is seeking personal data on millions of Americans., but some states refuse to hand over the information to the government. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it is suing six states —California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania —that have refused to turn over detailed voter roll data demanded by federal attorneys earlier this year.

  • SHOOTING AT ICE FACILITY
    Uriel J. García, Colleen DeGuzman and Nicholas Gutteridge

    Officials said the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and no ICE personnel were among the victims. FBI Director Kash Patel said an anti-ICE message was found on an unspent shell casing.

  • POLARIZATION

    A recent study provides a nuanced understanding of the mechanisms driving polarization and issue alignment on Twitter/X and reveals how political polarization is reinforced and structured by two distinct types of highly active users: influencers and multipliers.

  • IMMIGRATION
    Caroline Boda, <em>The Center Square</em>

    The U.S.’s foreign-born population shrunk this year for the first time since the 1960s, new data shows. After rapidly growing for more than 50 years, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. reached a record high of 53.3 million in January 2025.

  • DEPORTATIONS
    David J. Bier

    Illegal profiling accounts for a substantial portion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests in 2025. Mass deportation is a socially and economically damaging goal regardless, but it’s certainly not a goal for which we should sacrifice a sliver of our liberty or the Constitution. Only time will tell whether ICE and Border Patrol can continue to get away with these tactics.

  • DEPORTATIONS
    Tim Henderson

    Inside immigration courts around the country, immigrants who crossed the border illegally and were caught and released are required to appear before a judge for a preliminary hearing. But in a new twist, the Trump administration has begun using an unexpected legal tactic in its deportation efforts. Rather than pursue a deportation case, it is convincing judges to dismiss immigrants’cases —thus depriving the immigrants of protection from arrest and detention —then taking them into custody.

  • BORDER SECURITY
    Diana Roy, Amelia Cheatham, and Claire Klobucista

    President Trump’s renewed focus on militarized enforcement of the southern U.S. border has recentered national security in the debate over U.S. asylum, border, and deportation policies.

  • DEPORTATIONS
    Tim Henderson

    Despite Trump administration rhetoric accusing Democrats of protecting violent criminals and drug-dealing immigrants, the administration’s arrests have been catching a smaller share of criminals overall, and a smaller share of people convicted of violent and drug crimes, than the Biden administration did in the same time frame..

  • IMMIGRATION
    Bethany Blankley, <em>The Center Square</em>

    Congress has created several programs to allow illegal border crossers claiming to be minors to remain in the U.S. Despite years of documented abuse of the programs, Congress continues to fund them to the tune of billions of dollars.

  • DEPORTATIONS & BUSINESS
    Kevin Hardy

    President Donald Trump’s deportation plans could cost nearly 6 million jobs, according to a new analysis. The analysis warns that jobs held by both immigrants and US-born workers are at risk.

  • DEPORTATIONS & BUSINESS
    Berenice Garcia

    The South Texas Republican’s “Bracero 2.0” legislation —named after a 1940s temporary labor program —would raise wages for migrant farmers and simplify applications for employers, amid other changes.

  • IMMIGRTION
    Thérèse Boudreaux, <em>The Center Square</em>

    After decades of extensions, DHS will not renew Temporary Protected Status for Honduran and Nicaraguan citizens residing in the U.S., per new agency announcements.

  • DEPORTATIONS
    Tim Henderson

    As President Donald Trump sends mixed messages about immigration enforcement, ordering new raids on farms and hotels just days after saying he wouldn’t target those industries, he has hardly mentioned the industry that employs the most immigrant laborers: construction. Almost a quarter of all immigrants without a college degree work in construction.

  • GENOCIDE
    By Sarah Roderick-Fitch, <em>The Center Square</em>

    ICE officials say Vincent Nzigiyimfura, 64, residing in Dayton, Ohio, is accused of lying on applications for a green card and U.S. citizenship documents by “concealing his past role as a leader and perpetrator” of the 1994 Rwandan genocide responsible for the deaths of an estimated 800,000 of the Tutsi ethnic group, a minority group in the country.

  • DEPORTATIONS
    Alejandro Serrano

    With border crossings at record lows, state authorities are being sent to arrest people accused of committing crimes in Texas after entering the country illegally.

  • ARGUMENT: THE MILITARY & IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT

    President Donald Trump has federalized 2,000 California National Guard troops to quell immigration protests pursuant to an obscure provision in federal law–10 USC §12406–which has not been used since 1970, when President Richard Nixon federalized the Guard to deliver mail during a postal strike. William Banks and Mark Nevitt write that “the last time the National Guard was federalized over a governor’s objection was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson deployed the Guard to Selma, Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators.”

  • IMMIGRATION
    David J. Bier and Alex Nowrasteh

    President Trump signed a proclamation that, with few exceptions, bans nineteen nationalities from entering the United States, supposedly based on “security” concerns, and went into effect on June 9. The president claims that there is no way to vet these immigrants. Yet that is precisely what his consular officers and border officials were successfully doing for decades—up until June 9.