The Courthouse News Service reports that the Trump administration has sued four more states over laws allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition and receive financial aid. The Department of Justice alleges that laws in Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington violate federal law. The story goes: "“Over 30
Join the Civil Rights, Migration and Workplace Law Initiative for the inaugural Derechos y Esperanza Labor and Employment Conference: Empowering Low‑Wage Workers, September 24 and 25, 2026, at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. You can register here. This national, interdisciplinary convening will
Immigration Law's Excessive Fines by Nicholas McLean, Michigan Law Review Online (forthcoming 2026) Abstract Since the start of the second Trump Administration, the Department of Homeland Security has assessed civil penalties against more than 100,000 people for “willfully” remaining in the United States after final orders of
NY Times reporter Nicholas Casey was able to interview Roberto Mosquera, a Cuban national deported to detention in Eswatini. Here is a link to the video. It's a phenomenal resource for humanizing your class on 3rd country deportations and/or deportation on the basis of past criminal records.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice, announced yesterday the appointment of 35 new immigration judges and 3 temporary immigration judges. This group of new hires follows previous large classes sworn in earlier in 2026 as part of an ongoing mass
Investigation by Pro Publica finds that jails are keeping immigrants detained for longer than the 72 hours allowed by law. Specifically, looking at rebookings in Florida jails, Pro Publica found that rebookings were being used to unlawfully extend detention times beyond 72 hours. In Orlando, the Orange County Jail rebooked
Ella Siegrist for The Conversation (Immigration enforcement is supplying a long‑standing economic market for prisoners) writes that: "Today, as criminal justice reforms drive down prison admissions in some areas, immigration detention is filling prison and jail cells that would otherwise be empty. The number of people detained by
In 2026, the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) launched the Refugee Leadership Program, fulfilling a pledge made at the 2023 Global Refugee Forum to strengthen refugee leadership in our work. The program brings the expertise and leadership of people who have experienced forced displacement directly into our advocacy,
Indigenous Immigration Control by Cori Alonso-Yoder Abstract Tensions between federal and local policies on immigration dominate the headlines. From ending birthright citizenship, to local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, the debates echo the earliest days of immigration law when the states and federal government grappled to determine who would define
Elizabeth Detention Center: A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States Edited by Ulla D. Berg and Carolina Sánchez Boe Contributors: Nina Bernstein (Foreword), Silky Shah (Afterword), Amy Gottlieb, Elizabeth Llorente, Penny Venetis, Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir, Will Coley, Sarah Tosh, Abdulai Bah, Marguerite
The Necropolitics of Immigration Enforcement by Abel Rodriguez, Abstract Racialized migration control policies increasingly subject migrants of color to systemic harms, including death. As the root causes of migration remain unaddressed, global forced displacement and migrant deaths have reached unprecedented levels while receiving states respond with increasingly violent and lethal
Press Release: "[I]mmigration legal service providers and advocacy organizations filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new interim final rule that allows U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to send people seeking asylum directly to immigration court without first assessing their legal claims in an affirmative asylum interview.