“This is a really abusive company that has profited off of the worst of this country’s policies regarding detention, torture, and widespread abuses.”
Felipe De La Hoz is a reporter focusing on policy and investigative immigration coverage. He is the co-founder of BORDER/LINES, a weekly newsletter that breaks down changes in federal immigration policy.
Under a controversial Trump administration COVID order that Joe Biden has left in place, Óscar Luis Cortes García is stuck in limbo.
Congress is supposed to make laws, right? But there’s a section of immigration law that lets the president do whatever he wants. And Trump has.
Already, the president’s allies in Congress are pushing the argument that the skyrocketing unemployment rate is a reason to terminate immigration altogether.
There are calls to exclude people without legal status to be excluded. Rand Paul says “taxpayer money shouldn’t go to non-people.” Steven Mnuchin stresses it's for “Americans.”
The abrupt reversal ends the office’s argument against a state law intended to protect minor drug offenders who agreed to pretrial diversion program from deportation.
ICE agents have been resorting to deceptions that go way beyond just identifying as ‘police.’