The arrest and return of an asylum seeker who took his children to the Club World Cup soccer tournament final on July 13, 2025, raises serious concerns about the safety of noncitizens attending the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Human Rights Watch said today. In May, Human Rights
An Urgent Call for State and Local Government to Respond to ICE through Criminal Prosecutions, Taxes, Zoning, and New Criminal Laws by Kari E. Hong Abstract This short essay provides an overview of ICE's conduct and detention practices. It offers with concrete suggestions on how state and local
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Guest blogger: Dallin Nielsen, law student, University of San Francisco Immigration was one of the most important issues for voters in the 2024 presidential election, second only to the economy.[1] But despite being such a prominent issue, I wonder if those who favor increasing immigration controls ever consider the
Matthew Boaz on Lawfare (Due Process in Third Country Removals) looks critically at the Trump administration's third country removals, which subject individuals to removal who may otherwise have protection from deportation to their country of origin. People who have won their cases and remained for long periods in
I just met with the President. I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies. Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom—not for foreign… — Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem)
You are warmly invited to join in person at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, Room 6112/Sociology Lounge, NYC) or online (register for the Zoom link via the QR code below or this link)—for the next event in the Immigration Seminar Series, co-organized by the MA Program
Today is Giving Tuesday, a day when many nonprofits receive matching gifts for donations. So it's an optimal time to make your year-end donations! Below find some of my favorite immigration-related nonprofits. If you've got another entity in mind, please let me know and I'
The American Society for Legal History has a virtual book event: December 10, 2025 – Marla A. Ramírez, Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation (Harvard University Press, 2025) with interlocutor Kevin R. Johnson. Here is the publisher's abstract of Banished Citizens: From 1921
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National Jurist has a feature on our Immigrant of the Day, Tewodros “Teddy” Mengistu, whose journey from Ethiopia to the United States legal system is marked by resilience, purpose and an unwavering commitment to the people he serves. Mengistu attended Haramaya University School of Law in Ethiopia, where he earned
The killing of a member of the National Guard by an Afghan national is deeply sad, as the murder of any individual would be. As Kevin has noted in several posts, Trump has capitalized on the moment to attack migration. For one, Trump has attacked all Afghan migration. He used