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DEPORTATIONS & THE ECONOMYICE Surges Have Triggered Massive Job Losses—Including Among Americans
The enforcement surge cost 668,000 jobs. Of the 668,000 jobs lost, an estimated 51,000-297,000 would have been held by American-born workers. Losses concentrated in immigrant-intensive sectors but spread well beyond them.
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DANGEROIUS SPEECHDangerous Speech in Disguise: The White House’s New “Aliens” Website Is Not a Joke
The official White House website has launched a new page titled, “Aliens,” which looks like a video game, with stars twinkling in a dark sky behind spooky neon green text. The page, echoing the rhetoric and the great replacement conspiracy theory, pushes inflammatory buttons familiar to experts on rhetoric, rhetoric which increases the risk of intergroup atrocities by instilling deep fear of members of another group. Such rhetoric, that one of us has named “dangerous speech” for its capacity to inspire violence, can demonize any human group.
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IMMIGRATIONDHS Threatens to Halt Customs Processing at Airports in Sanctuary Cities
Major airports across the country could soon freeze customs processing and cancel all international flights if sanctuary cities continue bucking federal immigration enforcement operations.
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GREEN CARDSDHS Quits Granting Green Cards—Almost Entirely
DHS announced Friday that it will cease granting green card applications except in extraordinary circumstances. Every legal immigrant must leave the country—that is, self-deport—even if they are qualified for a green card and even if leaving would disqualify them.
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GREEN CARDSHow a Proposed Green Card Application Policy Change Would Disrupt Lives by Assuming Legal Immigrants Are Evading the Law
As with other announcements during the second Trump administration, the real goal of the new policy may be to discourage immigration rather than effecting direct policy changes.
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IMMIGRATIONRed States Press Social Service Workers into Immigration Enforcement
An increasing number of conservative states are mandating that state and local social service providers verify and report the immigration status of the people they serve — in some cases threatening stiff penalties for public employees who fail to comply.
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IMMIGRATIONImmigration Street Sweeps Led to More “Collateral” Arrests of Noncriminals
A quarter of immigration arrests since August were labeled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as “collateral,” a type of arrest and detention that’s been challenged in court as an end run around civil rights. 70% of collateral arrests are for immigration-related crimes or violations only.
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IMMIGRATIONHeightened ICE Enforcement Harms U.S.-Born Workers, Shrinks Workforce
Heightened immigration enforcement during the second Trump administration has not expanded job opportunities for U.S.-born workers and is associated with a reduction of employment for U.S.-born men with no more than a high school degree.
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IMMIGRATIONNovel Study Maps Changes in U.S. Immigration Policy Landscape Since 9/11
Analysis in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine establishes a framework for further research into how federal, state, and local sanctuary and anti-sanctuary policies impact immigrants’ health
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IMMIGRATIONFear and Opportunity: Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders
Con artists posing as ICE agents and immigration officers are using WhatsApp and fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings with empty promises to fix immigration problems. As mass deportations continue, scam complaints soar.
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IMMIGRATIONAsylum-Seekers Could Lose Right to Work Under Proposed Trump Administration Rules
That option to work could close soon for asylum-seekers for the foreseeable future, as DHS says it could pause work permits until a case backlog of ‘between 14 and 173 years’ is cleared.
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IMMIGRATIONICE’s Heavy‑Handed Immigration Enforcement Was Tried Once Before – by Arizona’s Notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the Early 2000s
From 2006 to 2017, Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, implemented his own immigration detention program, instructing deputies to detain anyone who did not carry a valid identification and did not speak English. One U.S. Department of Justice attorney characterized Arpaio as overseeing “the worst pattern of racial profiling by a law enforcement agency in U.S. history.”
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IMMIGRATIONMinnesota County Charges ICE Agent in “Milestone” Prosecution
Minnesota prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a federal immigration agent for his actions during Operation Metro Surge. This comes as the state is pursuing more than a dozen additional investigations as part of Minnesota’s effort to scrutinize federal law enforcement.
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IMMIGRATIONPushback Leads Homeland Security to Compromise on Some Warehouse Detention Centers for Immigrants
Some of the Trump administration’s controversial new warehouse immigration detention centers are getting scaled back and postponed as states and cities fight back — one city even cut off the water to one of the centers — and new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin reviews actions taken by his ousted predecessor, Kristi Noem.
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DEMOCRACY WATCHCaught in the Crackdown: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled
Over the past 10 months, President Donald Trump’s administration has made much of its success in sweeping through U.S. cities, capturing unauthorized immigrants and arresting people who publicly oppose the operations, routinely accusing dissenters of being domestic terrorists or extremists. Less clear to the public is what has happened to those charged.
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The long view
IMMIGRATIONNovel Study Maps Changes in U.S. Immigration Policy Landscape Since 9/11
Analysis in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine establishes a framework for further research into how federal, state, and local sanctuary and anti-sanctuary policies impact immigrants’ health