Human Rights Watch reports that U.S. immigration authorities have detained at least eight Nicaraguan exiles whom the Nicaraguan government stripped of their nationality, including some with pending asylum claims. Seven of the people detained were among 222 political prisoners whom the Nicaraguan government expelled to the United States, declared
Karen Masterson in The Conversation (US migrant flights to Liberia evoke troubling history of sending people deemed unwanted to the West African nation) offers interesting historical background to the Supreme Court’s recent decision to temporarily allow the United States to resume deporting migrants to third-country destinations: "[T]he
The Derivative Dilemma: The Gendered Role of Dependency in Immigration Law by Veronica Thronson, 28 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 147 (2025) Abstract In analyzing the derivative status and its implications for women, in Part I, I look at the role of family in the immigrant
Press release on October 1, 2026 "Today, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the University of Delaware for violating federal law by prioritizing the needs of illegal aliens over U.S. citizens in defiance of Congress’s commands. The Department is challenging the University of Delaware’s
STAFF ATTORNEY/SENIOR STAFF ATTORNEY, DETENTION PROJECT Based in Portland, Maine, the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) is seeking a full-time attorney to provide direct representation to individuals detained by U.S. immigration officials. The Attorney’s focus will be representing detained clients in custody and bond proceedings before the
Britain Eakin forLaw360 (subscription required) reports that the Supreme Court today granted certiorari, vacated, and remanded for consideration of the Court's ruling in Mullin v. Doe (2026), a Ninth Circuit decision that found former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lacked the authority to vacate a temporary protected status
The Baseline, a new monthly column on Documented by ImmigrationProf blogger Austin Kocher, explores the impact of rising immigration enforcement. The first installment begins "We are living through one of the most intense periods of immigration enforcement in American history. "
A Reckoning in Springfield: A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become by Stephanie McCrummen in the Atlantic Monthly (subscription required) tells a disturbing story of the real life impacts on U.S. citizens of the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians.
Affidavits Are Forever: Public Charge, Domestic Violence, and the Enforceability of Immigration Law's Affidavit of Support by Veronica Thronson, 41 Yale Law & Policy Review 69 (2022) Abstract Part I of this Article provides a brief background on the central role that family relationships play in the immigration
Trial by ICE: Immigration Detention as Adjudication and the “Great Writ” of Habeas Corpus by Jonathan Abel Abstract In immigration law, detention has replaced adjudication as the executive’s de facto tool for resolving removal cases. Detention accelerates proceedings, pressures immigrants to abandon claims, and helps the government obtain outcomes
Dilemmas of EU Free Movement Law Edited by Eleanor Spaventa, From the publisher: "This thought-provoking book explores the ambiguity surrounding the objectives of free movement, highlighting how this creates dilemmas that affect its scope and structure. Leading experts assess free movement as a central component of the EU’s
From the ACLU of New York: In a victory for immigrants’ rights, the Southern District of New York issued a final ruling in African Communities Together and The Door v. Todd Lyons striking down one of the Trump administration’s policies that allowed ICE agents to arrest people for showing