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Immigration Detention is Profitable for Private Prisons
Post date:The stocks of two of the largest private prison contractors skyrocketed in the month after President Trump’s inauguration and have continued to grow.
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immigration
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The Future of the United States is Minority White
Post date:The demographic shift of the next few years is unstoppable and still misunderstood.
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Stopping "Sanctuary Cities" Proved Easier Said Than Done
Post date:The Trump administration has been battling in the courts and on the streets against jurisdictions that call themselves "sanctuaries," arguing that they threaten the rule of law and allow criminal immigrants to roam free.
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Will More Deportations Bring “Back” American Jobs?
Post date:The current debate over immigration is reviving decades-old arguments about its economic effects, and whether more deportations or less legal immigration will produce more jobs or better wages in the United States.
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immigration
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A Primer on Refugees and Asylum-Seekers, and Why They're Not Illegal Immigrants
Post date:The world is experiencing the most significant refugee crisis since World War II. One in every 113 people on the planet is now a refugee. Around the world, someone is displaced every three seconds, forced from home by violence, war or persecution.
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The Racial Origins of Immigration Policy in the United States
Post date:Race and immigration have gone hand in hand since the beginning of the United States of America. Assimilation and the perceived ability of people from different races to achieve it were at the core of most of the immigration laws from the 1870s to 1960s.