AP Exclusive: Trump’s immigration crackdown has detained dozens of military spouses and parents More than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty service members have been detained since Trump took office for a second term. At least six have been deported and one self-deported, an AP investigation found in the
After Ceuta, Europe is once again mired in migration chaos of its own making Kelsey Norman, Rice University; Nicholas R. Micinski, American University School of International Service Anti-immigration critics seized on the Ceuta migrant situation as evidence of the failure of soft policies, but in reality the bloc has become
A man from El Salvador being held at Delaney Hall, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Newark, New Jersey, died this weekend. Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo’s passing marks the 22nd death of a person in ICE custody in fiscal year 2026, according to agency data. He
Underinclusion By Design In Human Trafficking Protection by Julie Dahlstrom & Heba Gowayed, Iowa Law Review, Vol. 112, Forthcoming 2027 Abstract In 2000, the U.S. Congress passed landmark legislation to create the T visa, an immigration benefit designed to encourage survivors of human trafficking to cooperate with law enforcement
ICE begins outfitting Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors, attorneys say 🔒 Arelis R. Hernández, Ted Hesson, and Lauren Kaori Gurley, The Washington Post In a June 25 ruling, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to end deportation protections for Haitian and Syrian nationals under the Temporary Protected
NPR reports that shrinking rural populations have gained from migration, but Trump’s immigration policy is hurting that trend. The human costs to migrants are great: "Castro [a migrant] says, when her state started cooperating with ICE, she got scared. She decided to self-deport. She flew to Mexico City,
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has released the Cost of Deportations Calculator, a tool revealing how many federal tax dollars are being spent on removal operations in every U.S. state, county, and city. The calculator shows how that money could be spent on instead—such as school teachers, public
Eric Bazail-Eimil for Politico reports that the Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a multimillion-dollar contract yesterday with a Texas law firm to represent unaccompanied minors in immigration court proceedings. "Per a notice set to be officially published in the Federal Register on Thursday, but posted to the
Back in March, I blogged about the pending O-1 visa for the fourth member of Boy Throb. That post comes with a great short video about the O-1 visa that would be super fun to use in class. (You could also show one of the group's other videos,
Kit Johnson blogged about the recent migration crisis in the Spanish territory of Cueta. Deniz Torcu for The Conversation offers some background: "The images emerging from Ceuta have shoved that aside, instilling a harder register. Words like `invasion', `war', `flood' and `control' now predominate across
You can't make these things up! Here is a story for you: "A hot pink private jet is difficult to overlook, especially when it reportedly carries the word `abogada,' Spanish for female lawyer, across its side. . . . [Alexandra] Lozano built a nationwide practice by marketing herself as
Flock Safety is one of several automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies currently operating in the United States. Here's how Flock works, according to Business Insider: cameras are commonly installed along roads, at intersections, near neighborhood entrances, and around businesses or other private properties. When a vehicle passes,