This article explains why ICE is detaining a 13 year-old boy (whose family in Massachusetts has a pending asylum case) in Virginia’s Northwest Regional Juvenile Detention Facility in Winchester.
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Here is the federal announcement that, as of October 1, 2025, ICE will reimburse some salary and benefits (and possible bonus payments) for trained local police or sheriffs. Read details here.
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Here you can listen to an hour-long discussion with Austin Kocher (Syracuse University) about the new book, “Immigration Detention, Inc” by Nancy Heimstra (Stonybrook University) and Deirdre Conlon (University of Leeds).
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USA Facts has written this article which summarizes the Temporary Work visas issued during FY2024’and explains the priorities given to green card applications.
Total Temporary Work Visas issued during FY2024 were:
- H1B – Specialty occupation workers (programmers, medical) = 219,659
- H2A – Temporary Agriculatural Workers = 315,328
- H2B – Temporary Specialty Workers = 139, 541
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This article shares details of the border wall contracts that have been signed by Department of Homeland Security.
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A recent report from UCLA and California Luthern University shows that 1 in 4 Americans is now of Latino heritage. Read this article about these findings. See more details from the study here.
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The National Immigration Law Center has provided this explainer of the anti-immigrant policies in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill. These changes include:
- Detention and Enforcement resources and changes
- Fees and penalties
- Health and Nutrition Changes
- Taxes
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This article from the CATO Institute shows the breakdown of the 25,000 government employees (from both federal and state-specific organizations) who have been diverted from their jobs to support ICE.
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Alex Nowrasteh of the CATO Institute has just published an article entitled “Trump Bashed Other Countries for their Immigrant Crime Rates. Here’s why he didn’t mention the US” which clearly states that the crime rates for U.S. citizens are higher than for either legal immigrants or unauthorized residents of the U.S.
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This press release, from America’s Voice, summarizes a report from Economic Insights and Research Consulting which describes the impact that deportations have had on the economy. The report shows significant changes to (1) agriculture, (2) construction, and (3) leisure/hospitality. Read the press release here
You can download the paper Warning Signs of the Economic Harms from Deportations from SSRN (Social Science Research Network) that was written by Robert G. Lynch, Michael Ettlinger, and Emma Sifre.
Recently, unauthorized workers comprised these percentages of the three key industries effected by deportations: Agriculture (25% overall, 42% of crop farmworkers), Construction (13%) and Leisure/Hospitality (7%).
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