by Maura Kitterick | Apr 18, 2025 | Boston University
Trump’s notorious anti-immigration plans have remained ambitious during his second term in office, promising he “will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out.” In just a couple of months since re-entering office,...
by Sophia Widholm | Apr 18, 2025 | Boston University
A video published by the Associated Press News on April 16, 2025, shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents surround the car of Juan Francisco Mendez, a Guatemalan man who had recently applied for asylum. After refusing to exit the vehicle, one of...
by Cassandra Fitts | Apr 18, 2025 | Boston University
A social security master-list previously known as the ‘Death Master List’ meant for invalidating the social security numbers of deceased individuals is being repurposed in the Trump Administrations newest attempt to halt immigration. Immigrants legally authorized to...
by Olivia Lodico | Apr 17, 2025 | Boston University
The idea floated by former President Trump to deport “homegrown criminals”—U.S. citizens—to a maximum security prison in El Salvador is a troubling sign of democratic erosion in the United States. Legal experts have unanimously condemned this proposal as blatantly...
by Pamela Arjona | Apr 5, 2025 | Boston University
On March 9th, Mahmoud Khalil was detained in his apartment in New York. President Trump claimed at the beginning of his term that he would ensure the investigation and detainment of international students who spoke out against the genocide in Gaza. It wasn’t long...