Author: Steven Volk

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow End of Birthright Citizenship (New York Times, September 26, 2025): Government lawyers asked the justices to clear the way for the president’s executive order ending birthright…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  Trump Cuts Threaten Futures of 250,000 Children of Migrant Farm Workers: ‘We Felt Like Crying’ (Isabeau Doucet, Guardian, September 19, 2025): The Migrant Education Program opened doors for the kids of seasonal farm…

 PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  Plane to Purgatory: How Trump’s Deportation Program Shuttles Immigrants into Lawless Limbo (Maanvi Singh and Will Craft, Guardian, September 10, 2025): 44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  Immigration Appeals Court Expands Mandatory Detention for Millions (Politico, September 5, 2025): The ruling by EOIR upends a decadeslong understanding of immigration law, could subject millions of immigrants to mandatory detention, and is…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  Immigration Officials Conduct Operation at Wildfire Site in Washington State (New York Times, August 28, 2025): Immigration officials conducted an operation at the site of the largest wildfire in Washington State, fire officials…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  How to Protect People During ICE Raids: A Rapid Response Action Plan for Faith Communities (Votecommongood): This action plan equips faith communities to respond immediately and meaningfully when immigration enforcement threatens the well-being…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  ICE’s Family Separations Are Forcing Children to Parent Themselves (The Hill, August 8, 2025): Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids homes, workplaces and even community spaces, leaving children in the wake of their parents’…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families (New York Times, August 5, 2025): The practice appears to be a more targeted version of the mass separation of migrant children from their parents…

PICK THREE (No time for all the reporting? Here are three important stories from the past week that you might have overlooked):  Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests (Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk, ProPublica, July 31, 2025): ProPublica has documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car…