Cell Phones Are Not Suitcases: Today's Reasonable Application of the Border Search Exception by Philetus Holt, Fordham Urban Law Journal, Volume 52, 2025 Abstract Today, a federal agent at an airport can take anyone's cell phone and look at every picture, message, and file on that
Guest blogger: Taylor Doty, law student, University of San Francisco For over four decades, Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), has stood as one of America’s most fundamental educational guarantees, affording all children, regardless of their immigration status, a constitutional right to free public school. However, that
In August 2025, Pete Hegseth – at that point still the Secretary of Defense and not yet the Secretary of War – announced a new "Mexican Border Defense Medal" designed "to recognize service members deployed to the U.S. international border with Mexico for Defense Department support to U.
Immigration worries have been big in Chile for the last few years. Andra B. Chastain for The Conversation analyzes the election by Chilean voters of "the most right-wing presidential candidate since the end of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship over three and a half decades ago." In a runoff
Misinterpretating Immigration Law by Michael Kagan Abstract Although Congress bears primary responsibility for the convoluted nature of America's immigration laws, immigration law has been rendered even more incoherent through inconsistent interpretation. During the reign of Chevron deference, the federal courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals and various Attorneys
It is holiday season 2025. ICE is on many people's mind and not the kind that accompanies cold weather. The Associated Press reports on "stark reimaginings of Christ's birth are drawing praise and outrage as churches turn the Christmas tableau into a commentary on federal
Guest blogger: David Simmons, law student, University of San Francisco Overview: The overall status for Immigration courts over the past year has had a growing concern, especially in the past few months. Given the totalitarian regime brought by the Trump administration, the unbearable consequences of dismantling the Legal Immigration System
The Associated Press reports that a federal prosecutor earlier today told jurors that a Wisconsin judge said she be convicted for obstruction and concealment of her actions in directing an immigrant to go through a private door out of the state courthouse while immigration officers were there to arrest him.
Lawyering Peace features Lidiia Kuzmenko, Protection Officer at UNHCR’s Ukraine Country Office, who offers a powerful look into the human reality of internal displacement during Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. Lidiia shares how more than five million people uprooted inside Ukraine navigate legal, social, and humanitarian
Last week, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced her decision to terminate the Temporary Protected Status designation of Ethiopia.
Newsweek reports that a group of Republican lawmakers have co-sponsored a bill "that seeks to pause all immigration until certain conditions related to benefits for immigrants and different immigration pathways have been addressed." H.R. 6225, the PAUSE Act of 2025, currently has nine signatories, including: * Chip Roy
CBS News and other media outlets report that Democratic Minnesota Congressmember Ilhan Omar said U.S. immigration officers stopped her son this weekend and asked him to show his U.S. citizenship. The Trump administration has targeted Somalis in Minnesota for immigration enforcement operations. "Yesterday, after [Omar's