I can't stop thinking about my post from yesterday regarding the nearly two minute long video posted on official White House social media of President Trump reading a poem about a snake while video of arrested migrants plays. I know that there is a long history of using
Stephen Vladeck discusses What he says "may well be one of the more quietly important legal stories of the year: The role federal district courts are playing in pushing back against a massively significant change to immigration detention policy that the Trump administration quietly attempted to implement back in
The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics undercut protection for undocumented crime survivors and weakens law enforcement’s ability to investigate and prosecute crimes, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The report, “‘We Need U’: How the U Visa Builds Trust, Counters Fear, and Promotes Community Safety,
Yesterday, in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, the Supreme Court considered the courts' role in asylum cases as it weighs whether a federal court of appeals must defer to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ judgment on an asylum seeker’s claims of persecution. Here is the transcript to the arguments. The
Executive Clemency and Immigration Federalism: Reconsidering Presidential Power Over Deportation Orders by Linus Chan, Lauren Butler, and Emma Wittner, 61 Idaho Law Review 334 (2025) Abstract Given the lack of clear historical precedent and the unique nature of deportation’s function in the criminal justice system, this article advocates for
Susana Canales Barrón of the LA Public Press has published an article highlighting the start of a new removal defense practice at the Los Angeles Public Defender's Office. The full article is available here. As the article explains: For the first time in its 111-year history, the Los
A recent job posting by the Department of Justice seeks applicants for the position of "deportation judge." The position of a "deportation" judge does not exist--only immigration judges. At the same time, the administration has been firing immigration judges. Just last week it was reported that
Sarah Stillman for the New Yorker fills us in on the Trump administration's removal of noncitizens to faraway lands with which the deportee has no ties and connections. The first paragraphs are ominous: "One Saturday morning in early September, I got a WhatsApp video call from eleven
The Deportation Data Project (and here) today released ICE data updated through October 15, 2025. The data update includes every ICE arrest, detainer request, and book-in to detention between September 1, 2023 and October 15, 2025. This adds about two and a half months of data to the previous release,
NPR reports that the Trump administration is moving to tighten legal immigration reviews after last week’s shooting of two National Guard members in Washington. The shooting suspect is an Afghan national. He was granted asylum this year after arriving in the U.S. through a Biden-era program that provided
Guest blogger: Nate Austria, law student, University of San Francisco “Immigration fraud” is usually used in the context of immigrants who are trying to enter the United States illegally or conjures ideas of immigrants who are trying to cheat the system. What is less publicized are cases of fraud that
I'll be honest, I didn't think this White House would be the poetry-quoting type. I was wrong. We get poetry in text and as background sound to a video of migrant arrests.