Donald Trump’s mass deportation team has been taking shape, and it is alarming, as expected. Trump has announced that he has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his nominee for secretary of Homeland Security, joining noted white nationalist Stephen Miller and former acting ICE director Thomas Homan to...
Continue
»
Most of the Republican Members of the House Homeland Security Committee have amplified white nationalist “invasion” and “replacement” conspiracy theories over the last few years. Their rhetoric is inexorably tied to the “Great Replacement Theory” and multiple domestic terrorist attacks that have claimed the lives of dozens of Americans...
Continue
»
Aug 21, 2023
Una investigación de la Radio Pública Nacional (NPR) sobre una secreta auditoría del Departamento Seguridad Nacional (DHS) detalla los terribles abusos y violaciones de derechos humanos en los centros de detención de migrantes de ICE. La Unión Americana de Libertades Civiles (ACLU) catalogó los hallazgos de “escalofriantes”. Pero para...
Continue
»
Chad Wolf, unlawfully appointed former acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration, is among right-wing officials set to appear before the House Judiciary Committee this week. While the hearing purports to concern border security, it’s really about keeping the base inflamed over immigration after...
Continue
»
Over the last year, several Republicans have been clamoring to impeach the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Alejandro Mayorkas, as the next act in their nativist political theater. Devoid of substance, their production of impeachment is but the latest in an escalating set of performances to...
Continue
»
Washington, DC – Reports of internal opposition at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the Biden administration’s systematic deportations of Haitians and the administration’s re-start – and expansion – of the MPP/Remain in Mexico program underscore growing disillusionment with the Biden administration’s border and immigration policies. Among the...
Continue
»
Washington, DC – Yesterday, the Biden administration issued the third in a series of memoranda updating and improving civil immigration enforcement guidelines. The new agency-wide guidance, entitled Guidelines for Enforcement Actions in or Near Protected Areas, sets policy with respect to ICE and CBP enforcement actions in or near...
Continue
»
DHS Secretary Mayorkas Promises to Provide Restitution and Resettlement Yesterday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas showed that elections matter. He promised to reunite families separated by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller; he rightly called out the previous administration for dismantling the entire immigration and asylum system and doing so...
Continue
»
Too often, mainstream media coverage and commentary regarding border and asylum policies rest on the following assumptions: Migration is bad, and more of it is worse; If Biden unwinds Trump’s sadistic web of cruelty, it will lead to a ”border crisis” because U.S. immigration policies are the primary driver...
Continue
»
Right wing media, ex-Trump officials, anti-immigrant hardliners and leading Republicans are stoking fears of a “border crisis.” They talked incessantly about a caravan that never made it to the border. They cite unnamed Border Patrol sources to sensationalize a modest uptick in border crossings and releases. They blame any...
Continue
»
