Enforcement-First Immigration Reform Stuck in First Step

Since its creation in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Department of Homeland Security has assiduously responded to the clamor of anti...

ICE's Expanding Mission: From Homeland Security to Community Security

The Department of Homeland Security has a bad case of mission creep. Created in the wake of Sept. 11 to better protect the country against a...

Path Forward to Integrity in Immigration System

(Conclusion of Restoring Integrity in Immigration System series.) The increasing emphasis on immigration enforcement has shifted the immigra...

Mass Incarceration of Immigrants

(Fifth in Restoring Integrity to Immigration Series.) The immigrant crackdown and the accompanying “crimmigration” of immigration law have l...

The Expanding Immigration Enforcement Apparatus

The 1996 laws – IIRIRA, AEDPA, and PRWORA – established the legal groundwork for the criminal alien focus of the current immigrant crackdown...

The "Crimmigration" Crisis

( Third in Restoring Integrity to Immigration System series.) In its study of the application of the “aggravated felony” provision in immig...

Immigrant Crackdown's "Severity Revolution" Roots

(Second in Restoring Integrity to Immigration System series.) While the ongoing crackdown on unauthorized and criminal aliens was launched b...