U.S.-Mexico border

Immigration in Pandemic Times, Vol. 2, No. 2

The COVID-19 pandemic has persisted throughout the many months of 2020, and not only is the Trump administration still using it as a guise for further restricting immigration, but there are still severe financial repercussions facing many as we continue to battle through COVID-19. The number of deaths in ICE custody is the highest since 2006. As of August 7, the ICE custody death toll for the current fiscal year is...

Immigration In Pandemic Times, Vol. 2, No. 1

As immigration has been impacted by health concerns surrounding COVID-19, many migrants have been stripped of their rights. The injustices are only continuing as application fees increase, the wall is deemed constitutional, migrant children are expelled without being able to see lawyers, and other cases. The Trump administration has increased many immigration application fees, especially on first-time asylum and naturalization applications. The increase has shifted the cost for naturalization...

How You Can Help the Unaccompanied Child Migrants

For over a year now, I have worked with community groups to pressure the President to announce a moratorium on deportations, specifically, an affirmative program ensuring relief from deportation for thousands of immigrant families, along with more significant enforcement reforms to curtail the use of deportation and detention.  While the President now seems poised to deliver some sort of executive amnesty, his handling of the child migrants at the border does...