Perspectives
Charging asylum application fees is the latest way the US could make immigrants pay for its red tape
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Only two countries charge people who seek asylum fees. The rationale for not doing that is clear.
Employment and Labor
Chicago is the fastest shrinking major metro area
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Black and low-income residents continue to move out, but unlike other groups, a majority of African-Americans exiting the Chicago area didn’t have a job when they left.
Perspectives
Supreme Court validates Trump’s ‘fake news’ justification for travel ban
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The Muslim ban was never about national security. It’s another way immigration policy is being used as a weapon against people of color.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Entangled by destructive policies, a veteran gets deported
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As one of thousands of “green card veterans,” Miguel Perez Jr. fell victim to inadequate veteran services, a harmful war on drugs, and brutal immigration policies.
Perspectives
Fear and insecurity shape the lives of children whose parents are undocumented
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A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation details the high toll of “crimmigration,” the intersection of criminal and immigration law.
Perspectives
Is this what a legal Muslim ban looks like?
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The Trump administration’s latest executive order restricting immigration may be much harder to challenge as unconstitutional in court, an immigration lawyer argues.
Perspectives
Don’t use the good vs. bad immigrant narrative to save DACA
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Fighting only for the ‘deserving’ immigrants enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is divisive and dehumanizing.
TCR Talks
Oscar López Rivera returns home to Chicago – and to a movement
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After 35 years in prison, the controversial Puerto Rican nationalist has become an emblem of the island’s struggle for self-determination.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Emanuel is the last person to give Democrats advice on strategy
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The mayor’s advice for his party to “take a chill pill” obscures his record and demonstrates his complete disconnect to the current political climate.
Perspectives
Trump’s executive order builds on history of racist immigration policies
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The United States has excluded immigrants on the basis of race or religion for over a century, and advocates have had mixed results in challenging such discrimination.