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!
The publisher's pitch: Mud on the Moon by Nita Noveno is a hybrid memoir that intertwines a daughter’s exploration of her Filipino immigrant father’s obscured past with a reimagined version of his untold story. Born in Southeast Alaska, Nita Noveno traces the legacy of her father,
National Immigrant Justice Center press release: "Today, immigration 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
We at the Immprof Blog are very excited to roll out a new resource library for immigration law professors. At the top of this page you should see a new tab: Library. If you click on the triangle next to the word, you'll see a drop down menu
Myah Ward and Erin Doherty for Politico report that "With less than 90 days until the midterm election, the Trump administration has sought to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials out of the headlines, pulling back on the high-profile, flashy raids in blue cities and minimizing public clashes with
CBS News reports that the Trump administration has been "deporting migrants from Mexico to different countries in Central America despite the Mexican government's willingness to accept the return of all its citizens, two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News." U.S. immigration authorities have
NPR reports that President Trump doubled down on claims of illegal voting by noncitizens "with the help of an unusual Census Bureau report that appears to have ties to a think tank aligned with him, NPR has learned. Trump said that the bureau's initial analysis of more
Join the Kennedy Human Rights Board and Leadership Council Book Club Conversation on September 16th at 12 pm ET/ 9 am PT. The event will feature Alina Das, lawyer and professor at NYU, with her book No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants. The conversation will be moderated
The New Assault on Plyler v. Doe by Cori Alonso-Yoder & Gabriel Sanchez, SMU Law Review (2026) Abstract The second Trump Administration has disregarded a history of bipartisan support in avoiding immigration enforcement actions in schools. Certain states have acted to further target children at school—advancing measures to exclude
The BIA decisions are coming fast and furious so it's understandable if you happened to miss Matter of Delcarmen-Lara, 29 I&N Dec 830 (BIA 2026). But it's one you may want to know about before the Fall semester begins. In this decision, the BIA