It turns out that Renée Good and Alex Pretti are not the only U.S. citizens who have died at the hands of immigration authorities during the second Trump administration. As WaPo reports, Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was shot and killed by an HSI agent assigned to immigration enforcement. The
I'm working on an essay about international students and, in the course of my research, arrived at the official ICE page for SEVP. I'm busy puttering around when a banner at the top of the page finally catches my eye: "If you are aware of
As Kevin pointed out just days ago, there has been a fair bit of negative reporting about the immigration detention center in Dilley, TX. It follows the heartbreaking ProPublica coverage of the facility, with stories told and illustrated by children in detention. ProPublica's follow up reports that guards
There's some interesting immigration news out of Oklahoma this morning. (1) Our Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, recently commented that he thinks states should be in charge of work authorization for noncitizens: "Let's go ahead and let the governors issue work force permits. So if I
I'm currently working on an article focused on international students and universities in the time of Trump 2.0. One thing I've been looking at is the long-standing history of restraining ICE enforcement actions at "schools." If you didn't know, that policy
I recently discovered the State Department's Substack. I spent some time trying to see if the president or other interesting departments (DHS, USBP, ICE, DOL) were on the platform. As far as I can tell, none are. The State Department is a lone wolf howling into the Substack
I stumbled across an interesting story from the National Catholic Reporter, reporting on the work of Cardinal Fabio Baggio, undersecretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. NCR identified Cardinal Baggio as the Vatican's "migration chief," a man "charged with overseeing the Vatican'
The Guardian printed a chilling story this weekend regarding Karen Newton, 65, a U.K. resident who was detained by US immigration authorities for nearly 6 weeks. Newton traveled to the U.S. for vacation. She and her husband visited various states and then sought to enter into Canada, but
Check out this 2025 article from Jennifer Chacón in the State Court Report: State Courthouses in the ICE Age. She opens with this: In late April, the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan made national news. Her arrest highlights both the Trump administration’s change in federal
Head on over to ProPublica for some devastating reporting on family detention: * The Children of Dilley (Feb 9) (the reporter interviewed more than two dozen detainees, half of them kids detained at Dilley — all of whose parents gave me their’ consent.") * reporting on a mom and her 14 year
Check out this short piece by Jennifer Chacón: Whose Common Sense? Some Reflections on Noem v. Vazquez Perdomo, Verfassunsblog on Matters Constitutional, September 10, 2025 (reprinted by the Border Criminologies blog). Here's the opening paragraph to whet your appetite. On September 8, 2025, in the case of Noem
It's time for your annual reminder of how to get ImmProf Blog updates and/or digests via email. You'll need to start with a third party website like feedrabbit. What's great about this site is its simplicity. When you go to the website you&