Racialized migration control policies increasingly subject migrants of color to systemic harms, including death. As the root causes of migration remain unaddressed, global forced displacement and migrant deaths have reached unprecedented levels while receiving states respond with increasingly violent and lethal force. In the United States, the Trump administration’s policies have built upon decades-long restrictionist […]
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was signed into law nearly sixty years ago. But in 2013, the Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder opinion effectively gutted the VRA’s preclearance requirement, which required states with a history of discriminatory voting laws to submit proposed voting law changes for federal approval. The Supreme Court determined that the […]