• POLARIZATIONInfluencers, Multipliers, and the Structure of Polarization: How Political Narratives Circulate on Twitter/X

    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.

  • IMMIGRATIONPew: U.S. Immigrant Population Declines for First Time in Nearly 60 Years

    By Caroline Boda, The Center Square

    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.

  • DEPORTATIONSOne in Five ICE Arrests Are Latinos on the Streets with No Criminal Past or Removal Order

    By 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.

  • DEPORTATIONSICE Has a New Courthouse Tactic: Get Immigrants’ Cases Tossed, Then Arrest Them Outside

    By 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 SECURITYHow the U.S. Patrols Its Borders

    By 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.

  • DEPORTATIONSFewer Than Half of ICE Arrests Under Trump Are Convicted Criminals

    By 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..

  • IMMIGRATIONReport: Feds Allowed 1,000s of Juvenile Gang Members, Criminals to Become Citizens

    By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square

    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 & BUSINESSTrump’s Deportations Could Cost 6M Jobs: Report

    By 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 & BUSINESSTexas Lawmaker Proposes Beefing Up Temporary Worker Program to Ease Farm Labor Shortages

    By 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.

  • IMMIGRTIONDHS Revokes Temporary Protected Status for Two More Latin American Countries

    By Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square

    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.

  • DEPORTATIONSIf Trump Wants More Deportations, He’ll Need to Target the Construction Industry

    By 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.

  • GENOCIDEICE Arrests 'Leader and Perpetrator' of Rwandan Genocide

    By By Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square

    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.

  • DEPORTATIONSAmid Trump Immigration Crackdown, Texas Reins in Border Spending and Shifts Focus to Deportations

    By 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 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.”

  • 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.