US-Mexico Border News and Blog Posts

Reuters published a report on Monday claiming President Joe Biden is deporting more unauthorized migrants than former President Donald Trump. Some sources have claimed that the Reuters report is misleading because it conflates "returns" of unauthorized migrants with "removals."

His new asylum policy is the most stringent action that a Democratic president has ever taken on immigration matters, and it will still be considered insufficient by many Americans, but that is a very nuanced bit of political positioning at a time when voters tend to prefer absolutes rather than shades of gray.

A new immigration bill signed into law in Texas is raising constitutional concerns and criticisms of federal immigration policies.

If the language is already this heightened in early March, it’s reasonable to assume that the debate will become even angrier and even more divisive as November draws closer.

Whether the U.S. sends more aid to Ukraine or not, the immigration debate will sound a lot different in the years ahead than it has in the past.

From the Center

It’s been almost 40 years since Washington accomplished anything of significance on immigration pol...

The immigration debate is about to get much louder and uglier – and it is going to get much worse for Biden before it gets better.

Framing the border problems in the context of opioids rather than immigrants presents a potential benefit for GOP candidates.