Citizenship Approvals Drop Under Trump The Trump administration has drastically slowed the application process for prospective US citizens — extending wait times for immigrants hoping to vote, reunite with family, or protect themselves from deportation, Ximena Bustillo and Andrew Kreighbaum report. US Citizenship and Immigration Services’ latest quarterly data show it
Today, the Vera Institute of Justice updated its Immigration Court Legal Representation Dashboard to include representation data for children, including unaccompanied children. The data shows the number of children, including unaccompanied children, facing removal without an attorney. The Vera press release states that "[m]ore unaccompanied children have their
Tomorrow on Zoom is the Chicago-Kent Law Review's Fall 2026 Symposium, "Who Belongs? The Contested History of Birthright Citizenship." The symposium runs from 9:45 AM to 4:00 PM CT. The schedule and registration link can be found here. (You must register to receive a
Rebecca Santana for the Associated Press reports that federal immigration officials need to ensure that body cameras worn by officers are uniformly activated when needed, a government report released [yesterday] said . . . . The agency rejected the recommendation, saying that using cameras that automatically activate when an officer pulls their weapon or
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New from the Urban Institute: Impacts of Heightened Immigration Enforcement on Children’s Education by Hamutal Bernstein, Diana Guelespe, Laura Betancur, Julio Salas "The study’s key findings are as follows: * -- Nearly half of parents reported that their children had expressed concern about going to school because of
When Africa Comes to America: How the Next Wave of Immigrants Will Transform the United States Neeraj Kaushal Columbia News: "Africans are the fastest-growing immigrant group to the United States. Only a tiny fraction in the 1960s, they represented 10% of documented immigration in 2022. Without attracting much notice,
Britain Eakin for Law360 reports that the U.S. Supreme Court today granted review "whether a Nigerian man's short stint as a cook for a terrorist group constituted `material support' that would render the already deported man ineligible for asylum." The Court granted the U.
The AP and others are reporting that some 139 migrants--including children–have died when their boat capsized in waters outside Djibouti. There were around 300 people aboard the ship, bound for Yemen, when it sank. The exact number of dead is unclear as Djibouti reports only those buried by its
UndocuAsians Lived Experiences and Social Movement Activism Across the Diaspora Edited by Kevin Escudero and Rachel Freeman-Wong UndocuAsians:Lived Experiences and Social Movement Activism Across the Diaspora. Edited by Kevin Escudero and Rachel Freeman-Wong Contributors: Ju Hong (Foreword by); Cynthia M. Alcantar, Rachel Freeman-Wong, Victoria Kim, ‘Inoke Hafoka, Trisha Mazumder,
CNN reports (see also here) that a man officials said was an undocumented immigrant from Mexico was injured over the weekend after being struck by a vehicle driven by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while fleeing on foot during an enforcement operation near Houston. An ICE spokesperson reportedly said that
Newsweek and many other news outlets are reporting on a U.S. government's search of the D.C. home of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a vocal critic of the Trump administration. She "has repeatedly downplayed the prospect of being the subject of a federal probe ahead of