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Taking a wrong turn on immigration detention
By ANDREW MOSS Contributor Last month, attorneys from the Department of Justice joined with counsel for the private prison corporation, the GEO Group, to present oral arguments supporting private immigration detention in Californ... — Updated 7/15/2021
Child poverty creates long-term harm, violence that's avoidable
There’s a term that was developed in the academic field of peace research, and it deserves far more currency in political discourse and everyday language than it currently receives. It’s called “structural,” or... — Updated 9/24/2020
The strident yet subtle language of vote suppression
There are many ways to suppress a vote. If you’ve followed elections in various states over the past two years, you’ll recognize such strategies as the purging of voting rolls, the elimination of same-day voting, and the... — Updated 7/9/2020
Raising the stakes against immigration detention
As the struggle for immigrant rights continues to be fought across America, new battlegrounds may come into view, and then fade from public attention. For many months, our border drew intense scrutiny, as family separations... — Updated 11/21/2019
We need to look at asylum as a human right
In the past year the Trump administration has been applying increasingly restrictive policies to block asylum seekers from pursuing their claims in the U.S. The most recent measure, now temporarily barred by a federal judge’s... — Updated 8/1/2019
Time and imagination help understand immigration in America
There is a certain tyranny to the 24-hour news cycle, a specific grip on human awareness and attention. We have been rightly consumed by the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant parents from their children, and the... — Updated 6/28/2018
