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Highlights from Forbes, Time, the Washington Post and others.

For noncitizens, a single conviction for a misdemeanor can trigger detention, banishment...

After years of high-profile shootings, policing in America is under more scrutiny than at any time in our history. Meanwhile, one company—which sells policy handbooks to police departments across the country—seems determined to give officers cover.

A grant of certiorari from the Supreme Court would set the stage for clarification of the uncertainty caused by the Fifth Circuit’s ruling.

There is a great deal of discretion involved with the practice of policing — a fact that has been made more painfully clear than ever over these past few years, which continue to be filled with controversial shootings by members of law enforcement.  Yet, despite historic protests, a more educated public, some local police reforms, and a push for better officer training, the shootings continue. Following the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, along with a flood of other disturbing fatal s...

Biden’s Border Problem, and How to Fix It The U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Arizona. (Ignatian Solidarity Network, https://tinyurl.com/ynfpzyv3; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) President Biden has a border problem. The U.S. is seeing a deeply troubling increase both in total unaccompanied children (UACs) and in very young UACs—children as young as six or seven years old. The current problems at the border have both short- and long-term causes. In the sho...

FactChecking Claims About Asylum Grants and Immigration Court Attendance April 1, 2021 While discussing ways to quickly determine if people who cross into the U.S. through Mexico are eligible for asylum, Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio claimed that “only about half of them even show up for their court cases” and “only 15% of them qualify” for asylum. But government statistics aren’t that clear-cut. A study published last year in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review found tha...

Immigrants Appear for Their Court Hearings, New Data Shows Do most immigrants show up for their immigration court hearings? A new report released by the American Immigration Council reveals that the answer to this question is a clear “Yes.” As the Biden administration begins its overhaul of the immigration enforcement system, we must ensure that our policies are based on facts. The report makes clear that many of our harsh detention policies relied on flawed data that suggested immigrants �...