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The State of Immigration Justice
Advocates Mobilize to Defend Immigrants as Enforcement Ramps Up
In 2015, Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign by linking Mexican immigrants to drugs, crime, and rape.[]Janell Ross, “From Mexican Rapists to Bad Hombres, the Trump Campaign in Two Moments,” Washington Post, October 20, 2016. Two years later, the Trump administration has been ramping up immigration enforcement and expanding the immigration detention system, which already subjects record numbers of noncitizens, including children, to prolonged periods in custody.
The immigration enforcement and detention system has rarely received more public attention than it did in 2017. Although the news from 2017 was overwhelmingly unfavorable for immigrants in America, immigrants and their advocates did post some wins.
Top Things to Know
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On Our Radar
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Best of 2017
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Jose Antonio VargasJournalist and CEO of Define American. Focuses on immigrant rights injustice issues.
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Indefensible Podcast SeriesA podcast aiming to show how deportation affects real people and their families, and how undocumented immigrants are dealing with uncertain and frightening times.
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Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration ControlAddresses three of the most salient aspects of immigration control: the denial of rights to non-citizens, their physical removal and exclusion from the polity through deportation, and their deprivation of liberty and freedom of movement in immigration detention.
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of ColorA timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement.
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Dara LindSenior Reporter for Vox. Covers national immigration policy and issues.
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Grace MengSenior Researcher at Human Rights Watch. Covers immigrant rights issues.
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Vera Staff
External Reviewers
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Ahilan Arulanantham
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Avideh Moussavian
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Jose Antonio Vargas