Immigration Policy

Border fence construction has begun at the US-Mexico border in March 2023. The new fence that will replace existing fencing at the Friendship Park San Diego–Tijuana area, which has served as a meeting point between the two cities for those families unable to reunite because of their immigration status.

I’ve Covered Migration and Borders for Years. This Is What I’ve Learned. I’ve Covered Migration and Borders for Years. This Is What I’ve Learned.

Borders are both crime scenes and crimes, with nationalism the motive.

Jan 27, 2026 / Patrick Strickland

Renee Nicole Good

Renee Nicole Good Renee Nicole Good

ICE out for good protest, Montclair, New Jersey, January 11, 2026. Visibility Brigade.

Jan 27, 2026 / OppArt / Karen Guancione

An ICE recruitment poster displayed in Arlington, Texas, amid a major recruitment event in that city.

Whom Is ICE Actually Recruiting? Whom Is ICE Actually Recruiting?

ICE has lowered standards to facilitate a massive hiring spree. Many of the new recruits are plainly unqualified. Are some also white supremacists or domestic terrorists?

Jan 27, 2026 / Kali Holloway

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer depart a news conference at the US Capitol on January 8, 2026, in Washington, DC.

This Is the Perfect Moment for Democrats to Grow a Spine This Is the Perfect Moment for Democrats to Grow a Spine

After the murder of Alex Pretti by federal agents, the least national Democrats can do is dismantle ICE.

Jan 26, 2026 / Chris Lehmann

Eulogy

Eulogy Eulogy

By Alex Pretti.

Jan 26, 2026 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

Chicken Caesar

Chicken Caesar Chicken Caesar

Liam.

Jan 23, 2026 / Steve Brodner

The Rev. Canon Kelly Brown Douglas during her sermon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City on January 19, 2026.

Refusing Despair in a Despairing Time Refusing Despair in a Despairing Time

A Martin Luther King Jr. Day sermon by the Rev. Canon Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas.

Jan 21, 2026 / Rev. Canon Kelly Brown Douglas

Bruce Springsteen speaking at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey, on January 17, 2026.

Springsteen Defends the Promised Land Against ICE’s “Gestapo Tactics” Springsteen Defends the Promised Land Against ICE’s “Gestapo Tactics”

Mourning for Renee Nicole Good, the singer decried the Trump administration and the threat to freedom posed by “heavily armed masked federal troops invading an American city.”

Jan 20, 2026 / John Nichols

Kristallnacht in Minnesota

Kristallnacht in Minnesota Kristallnacht in Minnesota

Tipping point USA.

Jan 16, 2026 / Steve Brodner

A woman gestures as ICE and other federal officers operate in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 13, 2026.

A Minneapolis Teacher Wants the Whole Country in the Streets A Minneapolis Teacher Wants the Whole Country in the Streets

Dan Troccoli, a public middle school teacher, says everyone should start “emulating” Minneapolis’s resistance to ICE and the Trump regime.

Jan 15, 2026 / Dave Zirin

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