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
Birthright Citizenship Before the Fourteenth Amendment by Trace Maddox Abstract After well over a century in relative obscurity, the doctrine of birthright citizenship has reentered the public consciousness in a big way. In one of the first acts of his second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order asserting
I've been thinking about what music to pair with the topic of self deportation. I think both Billy Joel and The Clash would work. Billy Joel: Movin' Out. From the album "The Stranger" no less. Key lyrics: "Good luck movin' up / 'Cause
A U.S. court (and here) has struck down President Trump's suspension of the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, ruling that the policy exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statutory authority. Here is the court order. Judge Jeannette Vargas, sitting in the Southern
Latest Analysis Unpacking Myths About Noncitizen Voting — How Heritage Foundation’s Own Data Still Proves It’s Not the Problem It’s Made Out to Be President Trump has repeatedly claimed that huge numbers of “illegal aliens” are voting in the United States and has said that failure to pass
Financial Assimilation by Shayak Sarkar, California Law Review (Forthcoming, 2026) Abstract Immigrants’ lives are measured and debated along many axes: language acquisition, neighborhood choice, and even family formation. But another overlooked form of assimilation persists. I use “financial assimilation” to capture noncitizens’ inclusion within American financial markets, for better or
Colorado Public Radio reports that "[r]esearchers interviewed dozens of primary care doctors nationwide . . . as part of a study on the impact. It’s published in JAMA Internal Medicine. She said many immigrants canceled and switched appointments and . . . had deep worries that ER and other visits could lead to
Vanessa Romo for NPR reports that "[o]ne of the last remaining checks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private-prison contractors running immigration detention centers has all but collapsed, leaving thousands of people trapped in a system with nearly nonexistent oversight, according to an NPR review. The grievance system
Rendition To a Place of No Return by Emma G. Brush Abstract The rendition of 288 Venezuelan and Salvadoran men to the Salvadoran mega-prison known as CECOT tore a hole in the fabric of the American legal system. The intention behind the presidential proclamation authorizing the renditions seems to have
Read our big scoop: Ice-cream cones, the ingenious invention of American immigrants Read this quickly, before it melts. Read More. Italian immigrants go!