A closer look
In Trump’s America, Kitsch Kills
How the Department of Homeland Security marshals sappy images of a white settler past to campaign for ethnic cleansing.
immigration
5 posts in ‘immigration’
Policing
Force Multipliers
ICE could never have created a large-scale deportation machine if it hadn’t enjoyed the voluntary assistance of local law enforcement.
law & policy
What makes someone a gang member? For police, nearly anything.
In most of the country, police can catalog you as a gang member for virtually any reason—and you might never even know until you’re being punished for it.
Politics
The Democrats Will Not Save Us
As long TSA lines have snarled airports, Democrats have touted their resistance to some aspects of immigration policing. But in reality our brutal immigration regime is a bipartisan creation.
interventions
The ICE Reformation Trap
Professionalization will not make immigration policing less violent. It will only increase its capacity, authority, and scope.