Source: Ronald Rael Instagram Post On Sunday, architects and professors Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello manifested their “Teeter-Totter Wall” idea from 2009 into a reality. The pink seesaws were placed in between the steel slats at…

Source: NPR On Monday, Attorney General William Barr ruled that Asylum-seekers who fear persecution due to threats against their family members will no longer be eligible for asylum. Barr argued that Congress could not have intended the…

Source: The Washington Post León Rodríguez, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) from 2014-2017, discusses the changes USCIS has experienced under this Administration. In February 2018, USCIS changed its mission statement from “USCIS secures…

Source: The Hill Federal Judge Jon S. Tigar issued a nationwide injunction against the Administration’s recent asylum rule. The rule requires migrants to apply for asylum in “the first safe country” they arrive in before they are…

Source: Immigration Impact A new Trump Administration policy goes into effect today. This policy will expand “expedited removal” – “a provision of the law that permits the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to rapidly deport certain individuals…

Source: Immigration Impact ICE began using three privately-run jails in Louisiana and Mississippi last month to hold immigration detainees. This expansion is troubling given the remoteness of these areas that would make it difficult for detainees to…

Source: Immigration Impact Before the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship question was “a pretext” for an attempt to intimidate immigrant families into not answering the Census, the Census Bureau sent out versions of the 2019 Census…

Source: ProPublica This article looks at the crisis happening at the border from the perspective of a border patrol agent who just wants to keep his head down. The agent, who did not want to reveal his…

Source: The New York Times President Trump has decided to abandon his attempts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. In an effort to show he has not entirely given up, he has stated that…

Source: Immigration Impact The Kettering Foundation hosted 86 conversations across 58 towns and cities in the US to report on public opinion of immigration issues. These public forums provided a space for individuals with seemingly divergent views…