Marcia Brown is a writing fellow at The American Prospect. Her email is mbrown@prospect.org.
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Federal Judges Have Stopped Trump’s Scheme to Block Millions of Legal Immigrants
The ‘public charge’ rule won’t take effect today. But its origins show the Trump administration’s true intent. Read more
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Asylum Seekers Stuck in Mexico Have Staged a Protest. These Are the Conditions They Endure.
In refugee-style camps from Matamoros to Tijuana, hundreds of asylum seekers are forced to wait under the Remain in Mexico policy—with dangerous implications for public health. Read more
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How Immigration Courts on the Border Could Become (and May Already Be) a ‘Deportation Machine’
As part of Trump’s Justice Department, immigration courts are compelled to enforce his political agenda. Read more
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Cancel Student Debt—Almost All of It
An obscure, decades-old provision called “compromise and settlement” authority could allow the Department of Education to opt out of collecting trillions in debt. Read more
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How Mexico Is Doing America’s Deportation Work for Us
Seeking to relieve the pressure from asylum seekers in border towns, Mexico bused asylum seekers south. The country’s practices could violate international law. Read more
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Why Sonia Sotomayor Fears for the Judiciary—and for Justice
Last week, Trump took his fight against asylum seekers straight to the top, and the Supreme Court okayed it. Sotomayor and Ginsburg thought that set a scary precedent. Read more
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African Asylum Seekers to the U.S. Stuck on the Mexico-Guatemala Border
Long-distance victims of Trump’s war on immigrants, African migrants have few options for refuge and fewer ways to support themselves while they wait. Read more
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New Jersey Moves to Rein In Wasteful Tax Breaks for Businesses
Inspired by a recent Kansas-Missouri pact, Garden State lawmakers may warm to reforms that scale back competition with New York and Pennsylvania over jobs. Read more
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Climate Activists Win Partial Victory in Climate Debate Battle
At the resolutions committee meeting Thursday morning, two hours of debate only yielded a non-DNC sanctioned discussion—not a climate debate. Read more
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Activists Fear Imminent Betrayal From DNC Quashing Climate Debate
Tomorrow the DNC votes on a resolution to hold a climate debate, but Chair Tom Perez’s competing resolution would undermine that effort. Read more
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As Republican Legislators Seek to Ban Abortion, Voters in Every Single State Reject That Change
A new poll shows fewer than a quarter of voters in any state favor the outright abortion bans some Republicans are now trying to enact. Read more
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Kansas and Missouri Call a Truce in Corporate-Welfare Border War
Governments in both states have wooed Kansas City–area businesses with tax breaks to relocate across state lines. Now they’re partnering to stop the giveaways. Read more
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We’re Having the Wrong Debate About the Border
Democrats are talking about decriminalizing the border, but they’re missing the point—and it will cost them. Read more
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Who’s Writing the 2020 Candidates’ Policies?
A survey of the advisers and staffers behind the leading presidential hopefuls Read more
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A Court Ruling Isn’t Enough to Save Asylum
The Trump administration’s latest rule sought to bar virtually all asylum seekers from filing in the U.S.—and a federal judge in California just blocked it. Read more
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Trump’s Latest Asylum Rule, Explained
How the interim final rule announced Monday could play out in the courts, and the devastating consequences it could have for asylum seekers Read more
As a Guatemala Asylum Agreement Fades, a New Trump Rule Threatens Migrants
An interim final rule from the Trump administration, which they say could begin as soon as tomorrow, could have a stronger effect than the rumored “safe third country” agreement. Read more
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Trump Seeking to Effectively Outsource Asylum Seekers to Guatemala
If the U.S. signs a “safe third country” agreement with Guatemala, migrants seeking refuge will have to file for asylum in the Northern Triangle country. Read more
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An Imperiled Border Agreement Could Doom Canada's Welcoming Immigration Policy
Canada’s safe third country agreement with the United States has become a flashpoint in upcoming national elections. Read more
Choice Requires Access: Abortion and the Democratic Debate
Julián Castro’s remark on reproductive justice has the potential to change the way Democrats talk about access to health care. Read more
