A few days ago, the State Department announced a pledge of $1.8 Billion "in life-saving humanitarian funding to OCHA." Not gonna lie, the announcement initially caught my eye because I thought it was about OCAHO, the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer--despite the lack of any
As Kevin noted yesterday, the U.S. State Department issued a press release yesterday that concluded: "Our goal is not to `manage' migration, but to foster remigration." You may recall that the official White House account on Truth Social posted "remigration" as "Words to
I was chatting with (okay, ranting to) a non-immigration person about third country removals and the Trump Administration's penchant for sending non-African migrants to African countries. (This is a topic I've blogged about previously here and here.) This person responded with something along these lines: "
Late last month, Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (Dem-CA) introduced a bill she calls the Pregnant Women in Custody Act. The bill aims to collect data, prioritize family unity, ensure access to appropriate services and programs, and prohibit "restrictive housing" for incarcerated women who are pregnant, in labor, and postpartum.
Scrolling the interwebs, I came across this article from The Guardian: ‘Everyone has a breaking point’: the immigration judges at the sharp end of Trump’s deportation drive. To be honest, it was the first words of the piece that really caught my attention: "David Koelsch, a former immigration
WaPo today covers a story that strikes me as unsurprising: there has been an uptick in migrants accepting voluntary departure. Specifically, between January 2025 and March 2026, IJs granted voluntary departure to some 80,000 noncitizens. This is, WaPo notes, around 11x the number of such orders during the last
ProPublica reports that Trump’s Deportation Campaign Has Harmed Scores of Kids With Tear Gas, Pepper Spray. Their coverage begins with emotional videos of kids dealing with the aftereffects of tear gas–crying, scared, and trying to breathe. ProPublica details the stories of kids injured while walking to school as
DJT premiered a logo on Truth Social for rebranding ICE.
At the University of Baltimore's Spring symposium, I had the chance to hear from Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, lead counsel for Kilmar Ábrego García in Noem v. García (2025). One of the things Simon discussed was how Ábrego García is willing to accept removal to Costa Rica (and Costa Rica
I love how posting a random idea online can catch the president's eye--like this from "verified MAGA journalist" Alyssa (no last name) which made it to DJT's Truth Social:
Aaron Chen is a stand-up comic hailing from Sydney, Australia. His show Funny Garden is currently streaming on Netflix. (You may also recognize Chen from his role as George on Fisk.) I happened to catch this snippet of Funny Garden on my socials: One clip, two visas: the E3 and
Check out this new piece from Enoch Kun, Assistant Attorney in the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, and Gordon Wong, a public health scientist: State Power in Physician Immigration Law, 29 Quinnipiac Health L. J. [i] (2025-2026). Here is their abstract: Physician immigration law is often