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The immigration policies enacted during the Trump administration, and their impact on the current situation.
A clear national tally is elusive because state laws have been passed in waves and federal agencies have produced competing lists, but reporting shows roughly a dozen states have enacted statutes that...
and host the largest absolute populations of in the —California with roughly 2.25 million and Texas about 2.05 million—while smaller states such as , , and rank highest when measured as a share of the...
’s motivations in a second presidency appear to be a blend of implementing a sweeping conservative-populist policy agenda, consolidating executive control over government institutions, and securing a ...
moved quickly to undo many restrictions while also introducing new operational tools and partnerships that reshaped who could enter, who stayed with protections, and how was conducted; these changes—r...
The phrase "open border" as applied to the Biden administration is a political label, not a single written policy; Republicans and some congressional reports use it to describe a set of Biden-era move...
Some are being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a cluster of immigration reasons — short visa overstays, being deemed inadmissible at ports of entry, criminal convictions that...
Between 2020 and 2025, syntheses of the academic literature and multiple prominent reviews converge on a clear headline: does not increase crime and in many studies is associated with equal or lower r...
Different administrations since 2000 have shifted enforcement of criminal immigration statutes through changing priorities, staffing and resources, use of prosecutorial discretion, and executive actio...
Enforcement priorities from the federal executive have repeatedly reshaped whether and how local police cooperate with ICE: when Washington prioritized interior removals, it pressured—and sometimes su...
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), both passed in 1996, together transformed removal law by expandi...
A growing body of empirical research finds that do not increase local crime and in some studies are associated with modest , especially violent and property offenses . The leading explanation in the l...
Criminologists estimate among undocumented populations by combining imperfect crime records with modeled population denominators, applying classification algorithms and robustness checks to compensate...
that frames immigrants as threats to national identity has repeatedly served as both a catalyst and accelerant in episodes of democratic erosion: it mobilizes partisan bases, normalizes exclusionary p...
Stephen Miller has made a string of highly contentious public statements in recent years — most explosively asserting that Greenland “should be part of the United States” and that the U.S. could seize...
Federal and state/local cost estimates of unauthorized immigration differ because they measure different baskets of spending, use distinct time horizons and counterfactuals, and apply divergent assump...