Dear Eva Longoria, Obama Is Lying to You About His Immigration Policy

by Julianne Hing on May 9 2011, 9:09AM

The president has far more power than he is willing to claim.

Topics: Immigration

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Aristide Returns to Haiti, Along With U.S. Deportees

by Thoai Lu on March 22 2011, 4:50PM

The country limps toward recovery, while presidential election drama swirls in the air.

Topics: Global Affairs

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Immigration Officials Still Can’t Make Up Their Minds

by Seth Freed Wessler on November 22 2010, 2:19PM

Officials keep telling different sides of the same story.

Topics: Immigration

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Immigrant Soldiers Serve Country, Still Face Deportation

by Julianne Hing on October 25 2010, 5:12PM

An estimated 4,000 veterans face deportation because of criminal convictions.

Topics: Immigration

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Feds Deport Immigrants for Meeting Civic Ideal Citizens Ignore

by Seth Freed Wessler on October 19 2010, 5:45PM

And conservatives latch onto it as belated proof of their long-standing claims of voter fraud.

Topics: Immigration, Immigration, Politics

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Homeland Security Quietly Dismisses Some Deportation Charges

by Julianne Hing on October 19 2010, 11:16AM

The department’s giving judges some discretion, but not much.

Topics: Immigration

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ICE Forces Counties to Join Controversial Deportation Program

by Seth Freed Wessler on October 12 2010, 3:40PM

While the government forges ahead, activists are back at the drawing board.

Topics: Immigration, Immigration

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Obama Administration Brags About Record Year of Deportations

by Julianne Hing on October 8 2010, 9:53AM

DHS calls system “thoughtful.” Indiscriminate and out-of-control are more apt adjectives.

Topics: Immigration

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Deportation Horror: A Journey From Texas to Bangladesh

by Seth Freed Wessler, Brian Palmer on October 7 2010, 4:59PM

Shahed Hossain describes his harrowing ordeal to ColorLines videographer Brian Palmer.

Topics: Deportation Dragnet, Immigration

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How Immigration Reform Got Caught in the Deportation Dragnet

by Seth Freed Wessler on October 7 2010, 10:36AM

Shahed Hossain’s shocking story reveals why Obama will have to use his power to halt mass deportations for any reform to work.

Topics: Deportation Dragnet, Immigration

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Immigrant Families Face Child Welfare and Deportation

by Michelle Chen on September 8 2010, 9:30AM

Harsher enforcement is tearing families apart.

Topics: Immigration, On Gender, Schools & Youth

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Obama Halts 17K Deportations, But Record Number Await Hearings

by Seth Freed Wessler on August 31 2010, 10:44AM

Nearly a quarter million immigrants still await a hearing in their deportation cases.

Topics: Immigration

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The Other Side of the Anchor: Where Else Do American-born Kids Belong?

by Michelle Chen on August 26 2010, 9:20AM

We accept the term “naturalization” for new citizens. What could be more natural than being accepted in the only home you’ve ever known?

Topics: Immigration, On Gender

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Defining the Immigrant Family: Legal Reform and Common Sense

by Michelle Chen on August 12 2010, 9:00AM

A legal analysis of the key problem that current immigration policy cannot answer: who do we call mom and dad?

Topics: Immigration, On Gender

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50,000 Deported From County Jails, And Counting

by Seth Freed Wessler on August 11 2010, 4:27PM

A new federal program expedites the process even for traffic violations.

Topics: Criminal Justice, Immigration

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Obama’s Immigration Enforcement a Carbon Copy of Bush’s

by Michelle Chen on July 19 2010, 1:45PM

A year and a half into his presidency, Obama has reached a new low on immigration enforcement. Or rather, a new high.

Topics: Immigration

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Sex Assault Charges Back in ICE Detention Centers

by Seth Freed Wessler on June 3 2010, 11:10AM

Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly announced last week that it is investigating alleged sexual assault at a privately run immigrant detention center in Texas. The incident is the latest in a string of sexual assault charges and convictions at Texas…

Topics: Immigration

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SB 1070’s Impact on Kids: Broken Families and America’s Soul

by Michelle Chen on May 3 2010, 9:01AM

Children are the hidden casualties of America’s war on immigrants, and the passage of Arizona’s new racial profiling legislation could open up countless opportunities for local law enforcement to break up families by putting undocumented parents on the fast-track to…

Topics: Immigration

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Deportation “Quota”—What It Really Means

by Hatty Lee, Hatty Lee on March 31 2010, 5:42PM

In a bout of messaging confusion, the Washington Post reported that James M. Chaparro, head of detention and removal operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced the agency was well on its way to deporting a record 150,000 people with…

Topics: Immigration

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Torn Apart by Deportation

by Julianne Hing, Seth Wessler, Jorge Rivas on October 22 2009, 12:00PM

ColorLines investigates the effects of deportation on families of color. Introducing a four-part series.

Topics: Immigration

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