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The American Immigration Council does not endorse or oppose candidates for elected office. We aim to provide an analysis of the election’s impact on the U.S. immigration system.Ports of entry along the border should be places where people in need of protection can come to seek humanitarian relief. However, since 2016, each presidential administration has used different tactics to remove people from ports of entry (POE) along the U.S.-Mexico border before they arrive. Finally, in October, the Ninth Circuit ruled that turnbacks are illegal and that meter policies that enforce them violate immigration law. It will take a long time…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. In an ornate room in Georgia’s Capitol, Julie Adams — a member both of the election board serving the state’s most populous county and of a right-wing organization sowing skepticism about American elections — got the news she was waiting for. And she couldn’t wait to share it. With pink manicured nails that matched her trim pink blazer, she tapped out a message on her phone to a top…

ProPublica is a nonprofit news company that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive the biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly made baseless claims in public statements about the threat of widespread voting by “illegal aliens” and non-citizens in the 2024 election. But away from the spotlight, at least one Republican National Committee official is telling volunteer poll watchers a very different story: that such a vote is next to impossible. At a private training session for poll watchers in Pennsylvania on Oct. 29, RNC election integrity experts told volunteers that the…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Denver’s “Newcomers”: Thousands of migrants arrived in Denver after the Biden administration lifted asylum restrictions. The city offered them temporary housing and help getting jobs. Another Crisis: The city also faced rising homelessness, causing resentment and criticism that the intense focus on migrants was taking resources away from unhoused residents. City Retreats: The city had to cut its budget and ultimately closed the migrant shelters. But Mayor Mike Johnston says Denver created a template other cities…

ProPublica is a nonprofit news company that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive the biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This video is co-published with the Texas Tribune. The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit, nonpartisan local news station that informs and engages Texans. Subscribe to The Brief Weekly to stay up to date on important coverage of Texas issues. Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez served four terms as the top law enforcement officer for Val Verde County, Texas, a vast rural area that shares a 110-mile border with Mexico. Martinez said she dreamed of taking the job before…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief Weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues. DEL RIO, Texas — In 2008, Joe Frank Martinez beat a Republican incumbent to become the first Latino elected sheriff along this 110-mile stretch of border. Nearly 16 years later, in mid-September, Martinez stood in front of several dozen voters at…

The American Immigration Council does not endorse or oppose candidates for elected office. We aim to provide an analysis of the election’s impact on the U.S. immigration system.A “bipartisan border bill” has become a front-runner in the presidential election, but it is often presented to the public without clarity on what the bill would actually do. In May, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) introduced S.4361, the Border Act of 2024. The bill contains nearly identical provisions to a bipartisan immigration proposal introduced earlier this year. These provisions were negotiated jointly by a group of Republican and Democratic senators as a…

The American Immigration Council does not endorse or oppose candidates for elected office. We aim to provide an analysis of the election’s impact on the U.S. immigration system.Foreign workers have long provided critical support to U.S. businesses during busy periods, filling temporary seasonal jobs when domestic workers are in short supply. This assistance, mostly manual labor, is made possible thanks to the H-2 visa program. The program was created by Congress in 1952 to “alleviate labor shortages, particularly during periods of intensive production.” Specifically, H-2A visas allow employers to hire temporary agricultural workers, while H-2B visas allow employers to hire…

The companies that secretly run the federal government’s immigration detention and deportation system are banking on the potential for huge paychecks if Donald Trump returns to the White House.President Trump has promised “mass deportations” to round up, detain and deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally, but the U.S. Immigration Council says the effort will include: It could take 10 years and cost nearly $1 trillion. The federal government already relies on a complex network of for-profit companies to enforce immigration enforcement. Experts say such private partnerships need to be expanded to meet growing demand.”A mass deportation program…

In 2020, in January 2020, long before the election and even before COVID-19, I published a book on political polarization. It was called “Why Are We Polarized?” And I’ve been thinking a lot about how this year’s polarization is different from what I was tracking when I was writing that book.The division is more fundamental. When I was writing that book, a lot of the discussion was about Obamacare and taxes. And now the battle is over the legitimacy of elections, the use of federal power to go after our enemies, and the nature and integrity of America’s basic system…