By Laura Briggs, author of Taking Children: A History of American Terror On August 14, 2020, a US government watchdog agency found that the top two leaders of the Department of Homeland …
By Joanna Dreby, author of Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families I share in the collective horror at reports about the Trump Administration’s newest administrative policy at the U.S. Mexican border: …
By Susan J. Terrio, author of Whose Child Am I?: Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in U.S. Immigration Custody The outrage generated by media headlines about the 1,475 immigrant children in federal custody who went …
This post is part of our blog series Integrate Current Events Into Your Courses, which aims to provide lecture topics and corresponding course books that will help your students think critically about today’s …
By Joanna Dreby, author of Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families Over the past eight years of the Obama administration, there has been a record high number of deportations, more than …
By Susan J. Terrio, author of Whose Child Am I?: Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in U.S. Immigration Custody Academics, advocates and legal scholars here and abroad expressed alarm at the campaign rhetoric of …