immigration reform

System Meltdown: Migrants climb over concertina wire after crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S. from Mexico, last Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.

Open-border zealotry only gets us more closed-border bigotry

Tim Padgett

COMMENTARY Borders matter — and liberals who embrace open-border ideology simply undermine the compassionate cause of migrant rights they claim to champion.

They Will Come: A Latin American migrant holding her infant daughter gestures to U.S. Border Patrol agents as she waits to apply for asylum on the U.S.-Mexico border at San Diego last Friday, May 12, 2023.

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Ron DeSantis looks ridiculous on immigration — but so does America

Tim Padgett

COMMENTARY Call Florida's governor "Ron Quixote" as he storms the border this week, but both liberals and conservatives are responsible for our immigration disaster.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (right) speaking at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora in Miami on Monday with Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez.

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A GOP immigration reform bill has no chance in a GOP that calls immigrants 'disgusting'

Tim Padgett

COMMENTARY GOP U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar's legislation is welcome — but ugly remarks by GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signal why it's likely doomed.

Vice President Harris arrives at Soto Cano Air Base in Comayagua, Honduras, to attend the inauguration ceremony for Honduran President-elect Xiomara Castro on Jan. 27.

Vice President Harris looks for a fresh start on migration issues in Honduras

Franco Ordoñez

The fact that Vice President Harris is even attending the inauguration is a sign of the importance the White House is placing on finding a partner in the fight against root causes of migration.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has promised to pursue alternative paths to include immigration reform in a budget bill after the chamber's parliamentarian ruled against his party's effort.

In A Blow To Democrats, Senate Official Blocks Immigration Reform In Budget Bill

Claudia Grisales

The Senate parliamentarian said including a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants was beyond the scope of the process Democrats are using to pass key legislation without GOP votes.

The Adelanto U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Processing Center in Adelanto, Calif., is operated by GEO Group, Inc., a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections. The facility is one of 39 recommended by the ACLU for closure.

ACLU Calls On DHS To Close ICE Detention Centers, Citing High Cost Of Empty Beds

Joel Rose

The ACLU wants the Biden administration to close dozens of immigration detention facilities, citing the historically low number of immigrants in detention and the high cost of paying for empty beds.

Police inspect the crash scene at Holtville, California, near the U.S.-Mexico border, where a cement semi-truck collided with an SUV carrying two dozen undocumented immigrants, killing 13 people and injuring others.

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AMLO Answer: Bracero 2.0 Seems The Immigration Reform The U.S. Needs Most Now

Tim Padgett

COMMENTARY Neither border wall fantasies nor immigrant amnesties will solve America's immigration crisis. A retooled guest worker program just might.

Untitled "Ventanita entreabierta" or “Window Ajar” is one of Emilio Sanchez's paintings of windows and doors, produced from memory between 1960 and 1999.

Immigration Under The Biden Administration, Cuban-American Artist Honored With USPS Forever Stamp

Suria Rimer

How will immigration look under the Biden administration? And the U.S. Postal Service pays tribute to an iconic Cuban-American artist — we’ll learn about Emilio Sanchez.

Immigration Under The Biden Administration, Cuban-American Artist Honored With USPS Forever Stamp

Suria Rimer

How will immigration look under the Biden administration? And the U.S. Postal Service pays tribute to an iconic Cuban-American artist — we’ll learn about Emilio Sanchez.

A panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pictured in San Francisco, ruled on Monday that the Trump administration can end humanitarian protections for immigrants from four countries, clearing a path for their eventual deportation.

Court Rules Government Can End Humanitarian Protections For Some 300,000 Immigrants

Rachel Treisman

Critics say ending temporary protected status for people from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan will devastate families and communities, especially during the coronavirus pandemic.

Miriam Robles, 24, says she envisions the day she becomes a U.S. citizen and gets to vote the way other people fantasize about their wedding day.

She Can't Vote Herself, But This DACA Recipient Is Working To Register Others

Barbara Sprunt

Miriam Robles, 24, says she envisions the day she becomes a U.S. citizen and gets to vote the way other people fantasize about their wedding day.

Trump's — And America's — Immigrant Labor Hypocrisy Smells Worse Amid COVID-19

Tim Padgett

COMMENTARYAmerica’s immigrant labor hypocrisy — especially Trump America’s immigrant labor hypocrisy — stinks. And right now, as we used to say in…