Priscilla Alvarez
Jeff Sessions Is Quietly Transforming the Nation’s Immigration Courts
The attorney general has stepped up the hiring of immigration judges, ordered them to hear more cases, and shown a preference for those who’ve previously been prosecutors.
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Reed Saxon / AP Will Kavanaugh Finally Cast the Vote That Ends DACA?
The Justice Department has warned that if the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals doesn’t rule on the program, it’ll take it up to the new conservative Supreme Court majority.
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Moises Castillo / AP What Trump Doesn’t Understand About the Central American Caravan
Attempts to discourage migrants from journeying to the U.S.-Mexico border often don’t take into account the conditions they’re fleeing from.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Trump’s Immigration Agenda Takes Another Hit in Court
A federal judge in California blocked the administration from terminating temporary protected status for four countries, citing racial “animus.”
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Gabriella Demczuk / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: A Historic Hearing
During a tense hearing on sexual-misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor, delivered an emotional testimony detailing the night she says she was sexually assaulted by the Supreme Court nominee.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The U.S. Sends an Unwelcoming Signal to Refugees
By dramatically reducing the admission cap for the upcoming fiscal year, the administration seems to be abandoning the country’s long-standing commitment to helping those fleeing war and persecution.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters Canada May Soon Outpace the U.S. in Refugee Admissions
For years, America has led the world in admissions, but under the Trump administration, it’s relinquishing that role.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic America’s System for Resettling Refugees Is Collapsing
National resettlement agencies are closing offices and laying off staff in response to the decline in arrivals, leaving the future of the program in the balance.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP George W. Bush’s Eulogy for John McCain
During a memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral, the former president delivered a tribute to the late Arizona senator, whose bid for the presidency he blocked in 2000.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Immigration Fight That May Soon Land in the Supreme Court
A DACA ruling from a federal district judge in Texas could conflict with previous orders that have allowed the program to proceed, and, as a result, bring the issue to the Court.
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Brennan Linsley / AP 'How Much More Merit Do You Need Than Saving American Lives?'
In the past year, there’s been a sudden drop in arrivals under the special-immigrant-visa program for Afghan and Iraqi citizens, many of whom served alongside U.S. soldiers as battlefield translators.
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John Moore / Getty How Will Detained Children Find Their Parents?
President Trump is ordering an end to the separation of families at the border, but the fate of thousands of children already in government custody is uncertain.
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Hans-Maximo Musielik / AP The 'Caravan' Migrants Have a Long Road Ahead of Them
Despite having arrived at the U.S. border, processing and adjudicating asylum claims could take years.
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Gregory Bull / AP Could Trump Actually Use Military Funding for His Border Wall?
The president would have to overcome obstacles in Congress, and perhaps even legal challenges, to use Department of Defense resources on construction.
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Evan Vucci / AP What's Next for Trump's Border Wall?
This week, the president inspected eight prototypes, but his administration still has a long way to go before bringing his campaign pledge to fruition.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters / Katie Martin / ... Trump’s Hardline Approach Is Forcing Immigrant Advocates to Readjust
Over the years, they’ve pushed for reform, but the latest attempt at policy change is forcing them to consider how far they’re willing to go to protect young undocumented immigrants.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty The Full Text of Mueller's Indictment of 13 Russians
The special counsel indicted the Russian nationals and three Russian entities for allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP ‘We’re Back at Square One’
Encouraged by Senate Democrats’ push to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation, immigration activists now feel defeated after an agreement to reopen the government without legislation addressing the issue.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters What Will the Dreamers Do Now?
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to allow DACA recipients to renew their protected status. But enrollees are hesitant about what will come of the ruling.
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Alex Wong / Getty The Controversial Question DOJ Wants to Add to the U.S. Census
The Department of Justice requested that the bureau inquire about citizenship in the upcoming questionnaire, a move that experts argue could have a crippling effect on participation.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters Deterring Illegal Immigration by Separating Parents and Children
A proposal to stem the flow of migrants trekking to the southern border is revealing the limitations of deterrence policy.
