“Our immigration and criminal in-justice systems are deeply intertwined and have contributed to our nation’s shameful mass incarceration crisis that has separated families and harmed our ...

And historian Brianna Nofil, who wrote The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration, has pointed out that the idea of immigration as invasion is actually not new in U.S ...

Ultimately, addressing illegal immigration with mass deportation will likely be as ineffective as using mass incarceration to fight the drug epidemic. For as long as there is a demand for labor ...

Immigration is among the most wrenching political questions of the 2024 election. Yet, when Congress resumes debate on border security in January, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has an ...

On Tuesday, April 26, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Mathis v.United States, likely to be the Term’s most important federal sentencing case, and its second-most important ...

According to the immigration policy think tank’s October report, undocumented workers paid $46.8 billion in federal taxes in 2022, along with $29.3 billion in state and local taxes, while ...

Mass incarceration, after all, was a triumph of bipartisanship. ... Unlike healthcare or immigration, no single piece of legislation can overhaul the entire criminal-justice system.

In other words, the 1996 laws took the harshest elements of the criminal-justice system—mass incarceration, discriminatory policing, zero tolerance—and injected them into the immigration system.

Building long-term power in movements for mass liberation requires forging coalitions between immigrant justice and racial justice efforts, aligning strategies to disrupt systems of incarceration ...

Existing immigration laws already grant the government vast power to deport. ... (It was last used to justify the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.) ...

The problem is that understanding is not correct," Professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez, who teaches immigration and mass incarceration at UCLA, told Newsweek. Left: ...

Ultimately, addressing illegal immigration with mass deportation will likely be as ineffective as using mass incarceration to fight the drug epidemic. For as long as there is a demand for labor ...