By Juan A. Lozano HOUSTON — A court hearing Friday over the licensing of immigrant detention centers in Texas is likely to delve into the unresolved question of whether children illegally crossing the southern U. S. border can be held for long periods at facilities that federal officials say are […]
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By Alex Nowrasteh Yesterday the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) published a report authored by Jason Richwine on the welfare cost of immigration. The CIS headline result, that immigrant-headed households consume more welfare than natives, lacks any kind of reasonable statistical controls. To CIS’s credit, they do include tables with […]
Even For Those Here Legally, High Stakes And Few Protections In Immigration Court
2 May
by Foster, on News
This story is part of NPR’s podcast Embedded, which digs deep into the stories behind the news. Inside a Newton County, Ga., superior courtroom, Shawn stood before a judge ready to enter a guilty plea. A year earlier, police had found him with 4 ounces of marijuana, two digital scales […]
By Glenn Minnis The immigrant population in Texas has soared to well over four million over the last several decades, now placing the state in a tie with New York for the second largest such population across the country. A recent Pew Research Center analysis found that as of 2014 […]