News from the front: "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people during July, the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration, according to new figures."
Voluntary Departure in the Era of Mass Detention: Pitfalls, Protections, and PracticeThursday, September 17, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (ET) / 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (PT) 90 minutes of instruction (1.50 CLE credits)Register here. The Trump administration’s goal of mass detention and
Denaturalization's Missing Limit by Cassandra Burke Robertson and Irina D. Manta, Northwestern University Law Review Online (2026) ABSTRACT Civil denaturalization has become a bipartisan tool of punishment and deterrence. The government has used the civil justice system to strip citizenship from naturalized citizens convicted of serious crimes— including
Lawyers Defending American Democracy invites you to an important conversation on September 10, 2026, with two former immigration judges recently fired by the administration: former Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Megan R. Jackler, lead plaintiff in Jackler v. Merit Systems Protection Board, and former Immigration Judge and Vice President of the
From TRAC Immigration: "Denaturalization remains an ongoing Department of Justice (DoJ) civil enforcement priority. In July 2026 at least 50 denaturalization complaints were filed in that single month, an all-time high. This brought the total during the first seven months of 2026 to at least 105 denaturalization suits filed
It's the start of a new semester and you may be beginning with Virgil Wiebe's Immigrant Hotel. I wanted a more "hotel" looking diagram to use for teaching. So, naturally, I turned to Chat GPT. It did not disappoint. In case this might be
Kanishka Singh for Reuters reports that the immigrant father of a U.S. sailor on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, which was deployed in the Middle East during the Iran war, was placed in immigration detention, the sailor said in a Facebook post. More on this story – and it does
A “beloved” pastor in Springfield, Ohio; a minor league catching coordinator for the San Diego Padres; a father and his five-year-old on their way to a soccer game; and a coffee shop owner in Oceanside, California, are among those recently arrested by ICE. Cincinnati Enquirer, CBS Austin, The Hill, The
José Efraín Chajón Raxón left his hometown of San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala, to begin a life in the United States over a decade ago. In August, his body was returned home. He was buried in a local cemetery — several weeks after being detained at New Jersey’s Delaney Hall. However,
Ami Hutchinson clued me into The Appeal's ICE Contract Database, something the news organization put together as part of its investigation Deportation Dollars: ICE Contracts With More Than 1,000 Businesses Across the U.S.. Naturally, I looked at Oklahoma first. Nothing too interesting there (go us!). Then
Trump V. Barbara and the Allegiance Red Herring by Marissa Jackson Sow, University of Richmond, United Nations - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Abstract In support of its unsuccessful fight against birthright citizenship, the Trump Administration and its supporters in Congress and the legal academy made much
This week, a coalition of public interest groups–including, among others, We Are CASA, the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation–filed a complaint calling upon the Maryland AG to investigate companies' compliance with Maryland's data privacy laws. Earlier this