LatinaLista — There’s a little known congressional mandate known as the “detention bed mandate.” Passed in 2009, Congress requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “incarcerate 34,000 immigrants in jails and detention centers in the U.S. at any given…
By Scott Nicol Rio Grande Guardian McALLEN, TX — “They’re arresting babies.” The thought struck hard, and it kept echoing. I had come to the border wall with a correspondent from National Public Radio to see its impact on…
LatinaLista — Two new installments of a three-part series, of the Migrant Border Crossing Study, released today by the Immigration Policy Center take a bold stand. Not in what they document but what they imply. Bordering on Criminal: The…