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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly presented a more moderate vision this week for a U.S.-Mexico border wall than the one President Donald Trump had pledged during his 2016 campaign. On Wednesday, Kelly told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that some of Trump’s campaign immigration policies were “uninformed.” The country won’t build a wall along the entire southern ... Read More »
Immigration figures released this week show the lowest number of people trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in decades. Meanwhile, deportations of people living illegally in the United States are up significantly. So are President Donald Trump’s immigration policies working or is there more behind the numbers? Ev Meade, director of the University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute, said ... Read More »
Federal data obtained by inewsource provide a glimpse into how the Obama administration’s policy shift on deportations has played out in San Diego County. Read More »
An in-depth look at immigrant detention and immigration court reveals a backlogged system that some call capricious and opaque. Read More »
Who are the 650,000 people becoming U.S. citizens every year? Read More »
With the United States on pace to detain the fewest undocumented immigrants since 2006, a Texas congressman is accusing federal immigration officials of not enforcing the law by failing to fill the country’s 34,000 detention beds. Read More »
The number of immigrants being held in detention centers across the U.S. is the lowest it’s been in nearly a decade, possibly signaling a change in a federal mandate called a "bed quota." Read More »