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ARGUMENT: THE MILITARY & IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENTThe Mounting Crisis of Militarizing 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.”
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IMMIGRATIONTrump’s Lawless, Baseless Immigration Ban
By 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.
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TRAVEL BANA Guide to the Countries on Trump’s 2025 Travel Ban List
By Mariel Ferragamo
The White House’s latest travel ban imposes restrictions on citizens from nineteen countries. Many of those affected are contending with crises at home.
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IMMIGRATIONStates, Sheriffs Puzzle Over Trump’s Error-Filled List of Immigration Sanctuaries
By Tim Henderson
A list of 14 states, 298 counties and 200 cities deemed immigration sanctuaries by the Trump administration has disappeared from a government website but continues to hang over the heads of officials who face threats of losing federal funding. “The list is gone. Am I satisfied that it was rectified? Yes. Am I satisfied that it’s over? No,” said Sheriff Charles Blackwood of Orange County, North Carolina.
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DRUG CARTELSTrump Administration Moves to Block the U.S. Travel of Mexican Politicians Who It Says Are Linked to the Drug Trade
By Tim Golden
In what could be a significant escalation of U.S. pressure on Mexico, the Trump administration has begun to impose travel restrictions and other sanctions on prominent Mexican politicians whom it believes are linked to drug corruption.
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IMMIGRATIONU.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants
By Uriel J. García
It’s the second military zone the Trump administration has created at the border, following one on the New Mexico-Mexico border, where a group of migrants were arrested on Monday.
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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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