The State University System of Florida’s board of governors will ban undocumented students from attending its selective institutions beginning in the 2027-28 academic year. That decision, combined with a similar vote by the Florida State Board of Education in July, means undocumented students will be effectively locked out of the state’s public higher education system.
J. Toby Reiner for The Conversation looks at "fundamental philosophical questions: What ethical obligations do governments have to prospective migrants? And what claims to admission do migrants have? . . . Many philosophers claim that immigration should be understood as a human right. From their perspective, governments have an important responsibility to
Muñoz's Children by Garreth W. McCrudden, 61 Ga. L. Rev. (forthcoming) Abstract When the government denies a noncitizen's visa application, can federal judges review that decision? For fifty years, the answer to that question was "sometimes." Though most visa denials were unreviewable, courts understood
As Kit Johnson has blogged, Australia appears to have the same kind of immigration politics as seen in the United States. Peter Hobson for Reuters reports that "[a] crackdown on immigration could cause labour shortages across the agricultural sector and threaten the upcoming wheat harvest, Australian farm groups said,
Republican Representative Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) warned President Trump in a campaign ad that some of his immigration enforcement operations have "gone too far" and warns him that Hispanic voters who voted for him in 2024 "feel betrayed." Salazar has been critical of the president'