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Immigration PolicyMay 25, 2023
The “Chaos” at the Border Is by Design
As a presidential candidate in 2020, Biden criticized Trump for “drastically” restricting access to asylum. Now he’s doing the very same thing.
Gaby Del Valle for The Nation
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Immigration PolicyMarch 17, 2023
Biden Has Now Embraced Republican Restrictionism on Immigration
The administration is enshrining several Trump-era border policies—even though Biden promised to undo the damage that Trump had done to the immigration system.
Gaby Del Valle
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SocietyOctober 18, 2022
ICE Is Subjecting a Record Number of Asylum Seekers to Electronic Monitoring
While Biden has reduced the overall number of migrants in ICE detention, his administration has also presided under a significant expansion of electronic monitoring.
Gaby Del Valle
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SocietySeptember 23, 2022
The Migrants Sent North Don’t Have a Happy Ending Yet
The fact that asylum-seekers are being welcomed in the cities they’ve been sent to is good news, but they’ve still got immigration cases to win.
Gaby Del Valle
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SocietySeptember 8, 2022
DHS Surveillance Increasingly Targets US Citizens
The Department of Homeland Security and its component agencies are highly capable of keeping tabs on all of us—and they often do.
Gaby Del Valle
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Immigration PolicySeptember 6, 2022
New York City Welcomes Migrants—and Criminalizes Them
By busing migrants to New York City, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has revealed the inherent contradictions of sanctuary cities, but not in the way he thinks.
Gaby Del Valle
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PoliticsAugust 17, 2022
Recent Migrant Deaths Highlight the Danger of Deterrence
Deterrence is a failed strategy for reducing migration—while driving up the number of migrants who die trying to come to the United States.
Gaby Del Valle
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EnvironmentAugust 3, 2022
3 Years After the El Paso Shooting, “Environmental” Nativism Is Spreading
Racist attacks in which shooters claim to be motivated by environmental concerns are becoming increasingly common, as is the ideology behind them.
Gaby Del Valle
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PoliticsMarch 23, 2020
Deportations Are Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse
Overcrowded detention facilities in the US risk exporting the virus to Central America.
Gaby Del Valle and Jack Herrera
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Environmental ActivismNovember 8, 2018
When Environmentalism Meets Xenophobia
The conservative conservation movement’s dark history of racism and eugenics.
Gaby Del Valle