A demonstration in support of regularizing foreign workers residing in Spain, following the adoption of a popular legislative initiative to that effect. In Madrid, April 9, 2024. FRANCESCO MILITELLO MIRTO/NURPHOTO VIA AFP In Madrid’s working-class neighborhood of Prosperidad, two Cuban circus artists arrived, with their four massive suitcases, in front of the small Hostel Thirty … Read more
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation last week that would allow local law enforcement to enforce immigration law, as conservative legislators push for increased alignment with the federal government’s crackdown on immigration. The bill was dubbed “Laken Riley Act,” named after the 22-year-old Augusta University student who was killed last year in Georgia … Read more
This guide was authored in 2025 by Reporters Committee Senior Staff Attorney Jennifer Nelson, Staff Attorney Renee Griffin, Media Litigation Fellow Allyson Veile, Media Law Fellow Matt Singer, and Jack Nelson-Dow Jones Foundation Legal Fellow Ellen Goodrich. While immigration has been a contested public policy issue at various points in U.S. history, recent changes to … Read more
Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Sixflashphoto, via Wikimedia Commons How and why can short-term visa requirements be re-imposed, on a fast track basis? For the EU, this issue is decided collectively, on the basis of legislation that applies to all EU Member States (except Ireland), plus the Schengen associated … Read more
Immigration has been the central issue in Germany’s 2025 federal election campaign. Kristina Bakkær Simonsen and Tobias Widmann demonstrate how this debate has increasingly been framed in moral terms and examine what this framing means for how citizens engage with political issues and with one another. This Sunday, Germany will go to the polls in … Read more