Stay, Hide or Leave? Hard Choices for Immigrants in the Heartland

Stay, Hide or Leave? Hard Choices for Immigrants in the Heartland By JACK HEALY August 12, 2017 Edith Rivera with her son, Steven, in Hampton, Iowa. By JACK HEALY August 12, 2017 HAMPTON, Iowa — It was quitting time. Edith Rivera took one...

Trump Wants to Get Tough on Crime. Victims Don’t Agree.

By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS August 11, 2017 Sending more people to prison, deporting illegal immigrants, cracking down on marijuana use — those are some of the things the Trump administration has said will make America safer. But what do crime victims think...

States Have Already Passed Almost Twice as Many Immigration Laws as Last Year

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI August 7, 2017 When Republicans in Texas passed a ban on so-called “sanctuary city” policies this spring, they appeared to be feeding on the momentum created by Donald J. Trump, who had made illegal immigration a centerpiece of...

Border Agents Test Facial Scans to Track Those Overstaying Visas

By RON NIXON August 1, 2017 WASHINGTON — On a recent morning, passengers boarding Emirates flight 232 from Washington Dulles airport to Dubai confronted an unfamiliar sight: a uniformed Customs and Border Protection officer at the gate. Before...

Prosecutors’ Dilemma: Will Conviction Lead to ‘Life Sentence of Deportation’?

By VIVIAN YEE July 31, 2017 The drunken-driving case seemed straightforward, the kind that prosecutors in Seattle convert into a quick guilty plea hundreds of times a year: a swerving car, a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, a first-time...

Big Rigs, a Human Smuggling Mainstay, Often Become Rolling Traps

By MANNY FERNANDEZ, NICHOLAS KULISH and SUSAN ANASAGASTI July 30, 2017 SAN ANTONIO — In one truck, the migrants crouched in the dark in a three-foot crevice between the trailer’s ceiling and the top of medical-supply boxes. In...