With the Supreme Court's prohibition of race-conscious affirmative action and the Trump administration's efforts to end diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, law professor David Oppenheimer (UC Berkeley) has published a very timely book – The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea by David B. Oppenheimer
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement (Statement online here.): "The Trump administration’s reckless Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations are trampling on working people’s fundamental rights and freedoms: to work with dignity and raise our families without the threat of violence from our government, and
The death in Minneapolis earlier this week was followed yesterday by, as ABC News reports, "a shooting involving a federal agent in Portland, Oregon . . . . The Department of Homeland Security said the shooting occurred while Border Patrol agents were conducting a `targeted' stop on a vehicle carrying two people
IMDb has information about the movie, which might interest immigrationprof readers: "In 1977, a technology expert flees from a mysterious past and returns to his hometown of Recife [Brazil] in search of peace. He soon realizes that the city is far from being the refuge he seeks." It
Anna Storti for The Conversation (Racial profiling by ICE agents mirrors the targeting of Japanese Americans during World War II) writes that "[t]argeting immigrants is a centuries-old American practice. In particular, Asian Americans have drawn parallels between the attacks on Latinos today and the forced relocation and incarceration
More on the story from Minneapolis yesterday that has shocked the nation. The Associated Press reports that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver during the Trump administration's latest immigration operation on a major U.S. city — "a shooting that federal officials
Catholic University is hosting a human trafficking summit on January 22, 2026, 12:30-2pm. Registration is available here. Five U.S. Ambassadors-At-Large to Combat Trafficking in Human Persons from the Bush, Obama, Trump I, and Biden administrations will address concerns about global efforts against modern slavery at the summit. The
The Department of Homeland Security yesterday announced that Secretary Kristi Noem participated in an immigration enforcement operation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. The Associated Press reports that the Department said "that it launched what it described as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out
The Center on Law, Race & Policy at Duke Law invites you to the 2026 Jerome M. Culp, Jr. Critical Theory Lecture on Thursday, February 5, 2026, in Room 3041, from 12:30-1:45 pm (EST). To attend in person, please RSVP here. Professor Culp was the first Black professor
Check of Jennifer Chacón's article: Loving’s Borders, 115 Cal L. Rev. 1079 (2025). Here's the abstract: In a term filled with high-profile cases, Department of State v. Muñoz1 did not receive high-profile treatment. But the case was a critically important successor to Dobbs v. Jackson
American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate Publisher Little, Brown and Company (2026) Here is the publisher's description: "One night in early 2018, while he was home from college, an Ivy League student named Blaze Bernstein snuck out of his
Yesterday, President Trump re-truthed a clip of Florida Congressman Randy Fine appearing on Newmax to talk about immigration. In that clip, Fine states: Well I think immediately we need to stop it all. All legal immigration of any kind because clearly it's out of control. People coming here