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Trump Promised to Protect American Jobs But His Immigration Crackdown Is Doing the Opposite
Donald Trump sold his immigration crackdown with a familiar economic promise: remove undocumented workers from the labor market and American workers will have more opportunities. The economics have proved considerably less cooperative. A 2026 working paper distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research examined communities exposed to increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity during Trump’s second term. Researchers found that as likely undocumented men di
Maria Salinas
Jul 244 min read
Texas Just Made Itself Its Own Border Patrol
Texas Senate Bill 4 For more than 150 years, immigration enforcement in the United States operated under a straightforward legal principle: it belongs to the federal government. States assist. States cooperate. That legal architecture changed Friday when the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling 10 to 7, lifted the preliminary injunction that had kept Texas Senate Bill 4 from taking effect, finding that the plaintiffs who challenged the law lacked standing to sue. Judges exp
Maria Salinas
Apr 273 min read
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