Many armchair experts have been espousing a lot of misinformed rhetoric regarding migrants based on the divisive language used by our current President, Donald Trump. I’m here to clear the air with facts that some of them may not like. In this day and age, everyone seems to be an…

Immigrants to the United States are considerably less likely than American-born citizens to commit crimes or to be incarcerated. This is a well-known fact. …

A look at the facts about migrants seeking asylum in the United States, the legalities of doing so, and how the asylum process is supposed to work. Anti-immigrant rhetoric is currently running rampant online. Many bloggers and far-right outlets expose how little they know about immigration as they try to…

With all of Donald Trump’s hyperbole about migrants coming to the United States, it’s important to understand the truth that lies beneath the surface of his rhetoric. In this installment of “The Truth About Immigration,” we’ll be looking at the facts surrounding migrants and government assistance. Recently, you may have…

Modern-day migrations into North America are the result of geopolitical intervention by the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean. As corporate interests grew, so did America’s military presence; ensuring control of the region’s economies, industry, and agriculture. For over a century the United States has intervened in Latin…

Donald Trump announced that there is a crisis at our southern border (there isn’t) and has declared a state of emergency. A baseless declaration with the intent of stoking fear among those who wouldn’t know any better. Let’s not mince words here. This is white supremacy at work. There is…

In 2018, over $2.3 billion in federal contracts went to the private prison industry. The immigration and corrections policies under the Trump and Obama administrations resulted in a financial windfall for the biggest players in the prison industrial complex. According to a recent Public Citizen analysis, ten large contracting firms…

As we continue to learn about migrant children separated from their families being adopted by Americans, questions are being asked about how it’s allowed to happen. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw allowed the Trump administration six-months to account for family separations dating back to July 2017. Now, the American Civil…

Hotels were used 186 times while 10,000 beds for children remained empty at government shelters Despite anti-trafficking laws and decades-old legal precedent, the Trump administration has been detaining migrant children as young as 1-year-old in hotels before deporting them, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press. …

Trump’s “public charge” policy allows the administration to implement a rule denying legal permanent residency to certain immigrants who are deemed likely to need public assistance in the future. On Monday, the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for one of Donald Trump’s more extreme immigration policies. In a 5–4 ruling…

We would be having an intellectually dishonest conversation about immigration if we didn’t acknowledge that the current problems in the United States are a culmination of decades of policies by previous administrations that grew harsher as time went on; thus laying the groundwork for what the Trump administration is doing…

Michael Cohen, Venezuela, North Korea, El Chapo, and a fake crisis at the border are all part of the non-stop news cycle that continues to draw attention away from the humanitarian crisis created here in the United States by the Trump administration. The news cycle is such that there can…

Since the first Democratic debates, Americans have found themselves discussing the legalese of Title 8 U.S. Code § 1325. Many armchair scholars have been weighing in arguing for the need to criminalize people crossing the border. While others argue for the need to repeal the section altogether. …

Since Donald Trump took office we’ve heard about atrocity after atrocity concerning refugees seeking asylum at our southern border. Torture, oppression, death, family separations. When is enough going to be enough for the American people to stand up to this abhorrent abuse? I’ve written about what’s happening at the US/Mexico…