From a press release from Human Rights Watch: US: Deportations to African Countries Not Their Own Denied Due Process; Some Returned to Danger in Home Countries * The United States has sent more than 500 people whom it cannot deport to their own countries, because of the danger they would face,
Recalibrating the Plenary Power Doctrine After Trump v. Hawaii, Thuraissigiam, and Loper Bright by Abdul Aziz Meslat Abstract This Article reexamines the constitutional foundations and contemporary operation of the plenary power doctrine in U.S. immigration law. For more than a century, the doctrine has afforded Congress and the Executive
The Georgetown Immigration Law Journal is seeking paper proposals for an in-person symposium to be held in Spring 2027, with publication of featured papers to follow in a symposium issue of the Journal’s 41st Volume. We invite scholars and practitioners to submit proposals for the Journal’s Spring 2027
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California Republican candidate for Governor Steve Hilton claims to favor legal but not unlawful immigration. The Democratic candidate, Xavier Becerra, has a more moderate position on immigration. The differences came out in a recent debate. Some Republican candidates have criticized a recent Hilton campaign ad as wried and worse. Check
NPR reports that the FBI is reportedly facing serious staffing shortages in its counterintelligence squads as the Trump administration has focused resources on immigration.
The Trump administration stripped Medicaid coverage from hundreds of thousands of low-income immigrants across the United States last week as part of its $1 trillion cut to social services enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The Medicaid coverage cuts are just the latest move by the federal government
Fox News reports that "President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that France’s escalating riots were being driven by `out of control mass migration,' as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz echoed those concerns and blamed unchecked immigration and broader European policy failures for helping fuel
The ACLU in a report (76 Ways Mass Deportation Is Breaking Our Democracy) challenges the Trump administration's anti-democratic mass deportation campaign: "In the past 20 months, the Trump administration has taken hundreds of actions to consolidate the president’s grip on power, execute a radical redefining of
More than 20,000 of the 31,100 children who reached Europe along mixed migration routes last year arrived without a parent or guardian, new UN data show. International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General Amy Pope urged closer cooperation between European States and countries along the routes to protect
Administrative Procedural Discretion by Bijal Shah, Cornell Law Review forthcoming Abstract The conservative Supreme Court has established maximum presidential control over formal administrative adjudication, despite the resulting impact on independence and expertise in adjudicatory process. Concurrently, a progressive public law perspective advocates for agencies to be released from procedure to
The Trump administration has challenged a number of state laws allowing undocumented residents to pay in-state tuition at public universities and colleges. Yesterday, a federal court upheld Virginia's law. Granting summary judgment for Virginia, "Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Payne found both the domicile pathway and