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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.
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Biden Showers Cash on Ex-CIA Contractor to Transfer Migrants
BUILD BACK BETTER?“This is a really abusive company that has profited off of the worst of this country’s policies regarding detention, torture, and widespread abuses.”
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U.S. Won’t Let Him in—Even Though His Docs Say He’s American
Pandemic PurgatoryUnder a controversial Trump administration COVID order that Joe Biden has left in place, Óscar Luis Cortes García is stuck in limbo.
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Trump Obliterated Immigration Law. Congress Let Him.
DO YOUR JOBS!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.
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The Coronavirus Is Making Immigrant-Haters’ Dreams Come True
‘ANY CLASS OF ALIENS’Already, the president’s allies in Congress are pushing the argument that the skyrocketing unemployment rate is a reason to terminate immigration altogether.
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Who Counts as American for Trump’s Coronavirus Cash?
‘NON-PEOPLE’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.”
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DA Backs Off Hardline Stance on Immigrants Caught With Weed
‘POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCE’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.
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Trump’s Immigration Goon Squad Pretends to Be Police in NYC
ROGUE ‘RUSES’ICE agents have been resorting to deceptions that go way beyond just identifying as ‘police.’
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