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PRIVACYCan Border Patrol Go Through Your Phone? A Legal Expert Explains What Rights Travelers Have Entering the U.S.
By Cody Mello-Klein
A Northeastern legal expert explains the complexities involved with searches of phones and social media and what rights citizens and visitors have when entering the country.
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IMMIGRATIONTrump’s New Immigration Ban: An Arbitrary, Discriminatory Legal Immigration Rewrite
By David J. Bier
President Trump claims he wants a “merit-based” immigration system, but a system banning people based on their nationality is the opposite of merit-based. It is a national embarrassment.
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IMMIGRANTS & CRIMERisk Analysis of Mass Shootings Committed by Immigrants and Native-Born Americans
By Alex Nowrasteh
Foreign-born people are not disproportionately responsible for deaths or injuries caused by mass shootings. The chance of being murdered in a mass shooting committed by a native-born American was about 1 in 10.5 million per year, about 6.5 times higher than the chance of being killed by a foreign-born mass shooter, which was about 1 in 68.4 million per year.
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DEPORTATIONSBlue States Fear Invasion by Red-State National Guard Troops for Deportations
By Matt Vasilogambros
There’s an emerging blue-state nightmare: Inspired by President Donald Trump’s call to round up immigrants who are in the country illegally, Republican governors would send their National Guard troops into Democratic-led states without those leaders’ permission.
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MIGRATION Trump’s Tariff Threats Fit a Growing Global Phenomenon: Hardball Migration Diplomacy
By Nicholas R. Micinski
As an expert on migration policy and international affairs, I have observed the evolution of this global trend: nations leverage migration policies for geopolitical ends. While migration diplomacy does work both ways, richer countries by and large have the upper hand. And Trump’s threats against Colombia –and others –are just one example of this hardball migration diplomacy.
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IMMIGRANTS & CRIMEWhy Do Illegal Immigrants Have a Low Crime Rate? 12 Possible Explanations
By Alex Nowrasteh
The evidence is overwhelming that immigrants in the United States have had a lower crime rate than native-born Americans since at least the 19th century. When people learn that fact, they aren’t surprised that legal immigrants have a lower crime rate than native-born Americans, but they are surprised that it’s also true for illegal immigrants.
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IMMIGRATIONDiseased Illegal Immigrants Aren’t “Invading” the United States
By Alex Nowrasteh and Krit Chanwong
My research at the Cato Institute on crime and terrorism committed by illegal immigrants conclusively shows that they commit less crime than native-born Americans and have murdered zero people in domestic attacks since 1975. We also fond no statistically significant relationship between the size of the immigrant population, the illegal immigrant population, or the legal immigrant population and the spread of serious communicable diseases.
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BORDER SECURITYGreg Abbott Seeks $11 Billion in Federal Reimbursements for Border Security
By Ayden Runnels
In a letter to U.S. congressional leaders, the governor blamed previous border security policy for leaving Texas “defenseless,” forcing state officials to spend billions.
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CARTELSCartels Turn to Social Media to Lure Americans into Human Smuggling as Texas Enforces Stricter Laws
By Alejandro Serrano
Thousands of people have been arrested under Texas’ human smuggling law. Now they face at least a decade in prison under sentencing guidelines that took effect this year.
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GANGSVenezuelan Prison Gang Crime, Arrests Confirmed in 22 U.S. States
By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square
Over the last two years, an unknown number of violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua prison gang members illegally entered the United States. Police records and official law enforcement statements confirm TdA-linked crime and arrests have occurred in 22 U.S. states.
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MASS DEPORTAATIONSupreme Court Unanimous Ruling May Pave Way for Mass Deportation
By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square
A unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court may pave the way for challenges to a federal deportation plan under the incoming Trump administration to be defeated.
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DEPORTATIONSDenver Will Stand in the Way of Mass Deportation
“More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep [National Guard units from other states] out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said. “It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right? You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them.”
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DEPORTATIONSTexas Offers Land for Use for Trump Deportations
By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square
Trump has said he plans to declare a national emergency on his first day in office, citing the border crisis. In an effort to aid the administration, Texas offered state property in Starr County, where more than 1,400 acres could be used to construct deportation facilities and staging areas.
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DRUG CARTELSAn Idea Whose Time Should Never Come: Using Special Forces Against the Cartels Would Be a Colossal Mistake
By Brandan P. Buck
While this idea is not new, it has become hazardous now given the Mexican drug cartels’ increased military capacity and tactical competence.
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BORDER SECURITYBeefing Up Border Patrol Is a Bipartisan Goal, but the Agency Has a Troubled History of Violence and Impunity
By Ragini Shah
On border policy, Trump and Harris have remarkably similar positions: They want to send more money, Border Patrol agents and technology to the U.S.-Mexico border. Yet, as my research on the history of border enforcement reveals, flooding the zone with funding, law enforcement and technology will not necessarily make the border safer.
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