Bush's Immigration Clampdown Crimped

David Bacon | posted August 22, 2007 (web exclusive)

Aug 22, 2007 ... No one can say for sure how many lacked immigration papers, ... the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center, ...

Driving While Immigrant

David Cole | May 12, 2003 issue

Immigration law violations have been the pretext of choice. The Justice Department has invoked every immigration charge under the sun--including the failure ...

Rights, Not Raids

Bill Ong Hing & David Bacon | May 18, 2009 issue

Whether hard or soft, these measures all enforce a provision of immigration law on the books since 1986--employer sanctions--which makes it illegal for an ...

Railroading Immigrants

David Bacon | October 6, 2008 issue

A new bureaucracy is growing rapidly, thanks to drastic changes in immigration law enforcement. In past decades, migrants were treated very differently when ...

Immigration to the US - The Nation | Unconventional Wisdom Since 1865

Immigration agents are holding US residents in unlisted and unmarked subfield offices. ... Vigorously enforcing labor law and stopping the crackdown on the ...

America's Secret ICE Castles

Jacqueline Stevens | January 4, 2010 issue

Immigration agents are holding US residents in unlisted and unmarked ... that empowers local police to perform immigration law enforcement functions. ...

Operation Enduring Liberty

David Cole | June 3, 2002 issue

As shock has given way to a renewed appreciation for the rule of law, courts have stood ... seeking to entice local police into enforcing immigration law. ...

Supreme Court v. Unions

David Bacon | May 20, 2002 issue

William Gould IV, former chair of the National Labor Relations Board, points to a basic conflict between US labor law and US immigration law. ...

America's Secret ICE Castles

Jacqueline Stevens | January 4, 2010 issue

Immigration agents are holding US residents in unlisted and unmarked subfield ... in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center. ...

Justice Delayed

David Cole | December 3, 2007 issue

Jarndyce of immigration law, dates back so far that the initial charges were for communist affiliation. When it began, Ronald Reagan was President, ...

Hold Ashcroft Accountable

David Cole | October 5, 2009 issue

Most were locked up using immigration law. But when the government suspected a US citizen, immigration law was no help. So the Ashcroft Justice Department ...

ICE Agents' Ruse Operations

Jacqueline Stevens | posted December 17, 2009 (web exclusive)

Dec 17, 2009 ... At other times, immigration law enforcement agents deceptively rely on the authority of their uniforms to conduct interrogations even though ...

The New Campus Raids

Jungwon Kim | June 2, 2003 issue

Under immigration law, foreign students must answer any question relating to their visa status, yet anyone questioned by the FBI--even a noncitizen--has the ...

A Rebuke to Ashcroft

David Cole | June 30, 2003 issue

The report finds that in order to hold these people, high-level Justice Department officials exploited immigration law for purposes it was never designed ...

Getting Tough on Exploitation

Amy Traub | posted November 17, 2009 (web exclusive)

Nov 17, 2009 ... But Napolitano is absolutely right: reforming the nation's immigration laws to bring millions of people already participating in our economy ...

Railroading Immigrants

David Bacon | October 6, 2008 issue

The immigration reform bills introduced into Congress from 2005 onward, with crucial ... director of programs at the National Immigration Law Center (NILC). ...

ICE Program Under Fire

Jessica Weisberg | posted October 14, 2009 (web exclusive)

Oct 14, 2009 ... Slide Show: Is 2010 the Year of Real Immigration Reform? ... authorized through a program called 287(g) to enforce immigration law. ...

'A Fair and Just Amnesty'

In the words of veteran immigration policy analyst Charles Kamasaki of the ... in this country, says Josh Bernstein of the National Immigration Law Center. ...

Realistic Immigration

Hilda Solis | February 6, 2006 issue

Hilda Solis: Grant legal status to hard-working, tax-paying immigrants; give up the illusion that law enforcement alone will solve immigration problems. ...

Vigilante Justice

Amy Bach | June 3, 2002 issue

Legally, the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act makes it easier for law enforcement to collaborate with the INS and request ...