IMMIGRATION POLICIES, ANALYSIS, AND RESOURCES
Latest Immigration Posts
Remote Learning Projected to Increase Inequality in Education Achievement
Brief #104—Immigration
By Rosalind Gottfried
Demographic inequities characteristic of American society continue to grow in different sectors. In education the widespread shift to remote learning will have a dramatic impact on students, long after the virus has been controlled and students returned to the classroom.
Trump Administration Impedes Search for Migrant Children’s Parents ACLU Tells U.S. RESIST NEWS
Brief #112—Immigration
By Linda F. Hersey
The Trump administration withheld key contact information for locating the deported parents of 666 immigrant children detained in the U.S., according to an attorney with the ACLU, which is representing the separated families in a class action lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Trump’s Final Attempts at a Border Wall
Brief #111—Immigration
By Kathryn Baron
President Trump has barely kept his campaign promise of building a wall along the US Southern Border but has successfully constructed 415 miles of border wall.
Victory for Dreamers Amidst Presidential Turnover
Brief #110—Immigration
By Kathryn Baron
Following Brief #108, a Federal Judge recently ordered the Trump Administration to fully restore DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).
President-Elect Joe Biden’s Immigration Plans
Brief #109—Immigration
By Kathryn Baron
President Elect, Joe Biden has hefty goals for immigration reform and policies. After election, he seeks to undo much of the Trump Administration’s initiatives and policies he found to be detrimental to our core values.
Court Rules Against Trump’s Unlawful Shutdown of DACA
Brief #108—Immigration
By Kathryn Baron
In June 2020, the Supreme Court barred the Trump Administration from carrying out a plan to shut down DACA (see brief #95).
An Update on the Status of the 666 Immigrant Children Separate from Their Parents
Brief #107—Immigration
By Linda F. Hersey
U.S. RESIST NEWS has made an effort to track down the whereabouts of the 666 immigrant children separated from their parents but no one is really sure.
Trump Adviser’s Ties to Anti-Immigration Policies and Hate Groups Scrutinized
Brief #106—Immigration
By Linda F. Hersey
The Administration’s abject failure to secure identifying information on hundreds of migrant parents separated from their children at the U.S. border in 2018 raises
Children Remain Separated from their Families, as Election Nears
Brief #105—Immigration
By Kathryn Baron
In June 2018, a Federal Judge in San Diego delivered an order that children in government custody were to be reunited with their families.