The Office of Inspector General for the US Department of Homeland Security has issued a report titled Unannounced Inspection of ICE’s Florida Soft-Sided Facility (“Alligator Alcatraz”) in Ochopee, Florida. Under the heading "What We Found," the OIG writes: "At the time of our inspection in January
The UK's withdrawal from the European Union ("Brexit") has had migration consequences for Brits living abroad in other European countries. Sweden has the unique distinction of topping the leaderboard when it comes to deporting UK nationals. They have removed 2,490 UK nationals, a figure that
The Oklahoma-DHS connection is currently quite strong with our former Senator Markwayne Mullin leading DHS and former OK State Trooper Lance Schroyer awaiting confirmation to head ICE. So it shouldn't have surprised me that when WaPo went to watch state troopers carrying out the administration's immigration
The White House has issued a press release: President Trump Delivers Historic Results for the American People in Under Two Years: In less than two years, President Donald J. Trump has driven the most consequential stretch of governing in modern American history. He inherited a disaster — and turned it into
My non-immigration teaching course is Civil Procedure. And today we are discussing Ashcroft v. Iqbal with all of its immigration and terrorism overtones. I was searching for a good song to start off class when I stumbled across this one from Punjabi-Indian-American rapper Heems. Written after 9/11, it'
New Zealand has an investor visa akin to the United States' EB-5 visa. It's called the Active Investor Plus Visa. While the visa was launched in 2022, it builds upon earlier NZ investor visa programs. It was then re-launched in April 2025, with smaller investment requirements--NZ$5
I found myself scrolling through the official White House feed on Truth Social – as one does – when I came across this post from earlier today: Check out the second bullet point which is, admittedly, hard to read given the font color choice: "DHS found 250,000+ illegal aliens on
Henrik Emilsson--Senior lecturer, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University--has a new piece published at The Conversation: Immigration in Sweden: how the country went from one of Europe’s most welcoming, to one of its most restrictive. He writes: For decades, Sweden was known as one of Europe’s most
A new article from USA Today shines a spotlight the issue of U.S. citizens caught up in immigration enforcement through the story of Brian José Morales García. Morales García was born in Denver, CO. Before he was two, his family relocated to Mexico, where he stayed for
The United States has deported six individuals from Afghanistan and Cuba to the South American nation of Guyana. Guyana’s Foreign Secretary told reporters that none of the six had criminal records, only immigration issues. Guyana will "host" the six for a year. They will not be permanently
The AALS Immigration Section Executive Committee invites works-in-progress and incubator submissions related to immigration law for the next AALS Annual Meeting, which will take place from January 5-8, 2027 in New York, NY. The WIP/Incubator session is scheduled for Friday, January 8, 2027 from 9:35-10:50am. Submitting a
NPR has a fascinating story about new immigration courts that have been popping up in the DC metro. Noncitizens who had been scheduled to appear in long-standing immigration courtrooms have been sent--often with little or no notice and in contravention of EOIR policy--to area buildings without immigration court infrastructure. One