The Immigration Article of the Day is "Opening the black box of international human rights enforceability through the study of migrant rights" by Anna Boucher & Eda Gunaydin, just published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs. The full article is available here. Here is the abstract: International
Freedom House is hosting a launch event for its new 2026 report. Freedom House has tracked global trends in political rights and civil liberties each year since 1973. The event will take place on March 19, 2026 at 7:30 AM Pacific Time. You may register here. The report’s
A conference on international migration titled Migration Across the Americas: Governance of Borders, Mobilities, and People, will take place on April 16th at UCLA, 9am–4pm. The event is co-sponsored by the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) and the UCLA Center for International Migration. Emergent and early career
This week the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) announced 42 new immigration judges. The new judges are slated to join courts in California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The full announcement with judicial bios is available here.
UCLA Law's Behind Bars Data Project has published new and comprehensive data on ICE deaths in custody. The number of people detained in ICE custody has reached historic highs. This important research shows that "deaths have followed, reaching 31 deaths in 2025, the highest number since 2004.
The Department of Justice has published a new Interim Final Rule, Appellate Procedures for the Board of Immigration Appeals, in the Federal Register. The rule is set to be effective on March 9, 2026. The rule purports "to streamline administrative appellate review by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board”
A new Congressional report from the Committee on Foreign Relations examines third-country deportations under the Trump administration, “At What Cost? Inside the Trump Administration’s Secret Deportation Deals.” A full copy of the report is available here. The Executive Summary summarizes the report's six important findings: Expensive and
Pedro Sánchez, Spain's Prime Minister, has announced a decree that will offer a pathway to regularize the immigration status of 500,000 undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. In this powerful post on social media from this weekend, PM Sánchez explains that the people who Spain is choosing to
Excellent podcast episode of Apple News In Conversation explores "How ICE entered its most aggressive era — and what comes next," featuring Caitlin Dickerson who won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for her 2022 Atlantic article on family separation. You can listen to the episode here. Here
Peter Mancina has published a new book: On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State (NYU Press 2025). This book is the culmination of nearly 15 years of anthropological research on sanctuary cities in the US. Here is a summary from the publisher: In the United States,
The American Immigration Council has published a new report immigration detention in the United States. It features three powerful stories from people currently or recently held in ICE detention. As the report highlights, "deaths in ICE detention in 2025 were the highest ever for a non-COVID year. And for
The Chicago Tribune today reports in a front page article that federal charges against immigration protesters in federal court are crumbling, revealing instead serious abuse by DHS officers. The Tribune looked at 106 cases of individuals "caught in the federal dragnet" and determined that "the vast majority