Notario fraud has long plagued desperate immigrants. Here is a new scam. Itzel Luna for the Los Angeles Times reports that "[i]mmigration law scams surged . . . since the Trump administration’s crackdown resulted in thousands of new cases flooding the court system . . . . The area of law has always been
No surprises her. The Associated Press reports that "[t]he Trump administration is packing immigration courtrooms and giving less lead-time on hearings in an effort to clear a decades-long backlog. The result is a historic rise in the number of people missing court dates and being immediately ordered deported
In 2021, some 6,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta--a Spanish enclave that lies on the continent of Africa. It was a pretty big deal at the time, with the Spanish prime minister vowing to end the migrant "crisis" by "restor[ing] order to the city
My colleague Raquel Aldana is featured in this thoughtful piece of commentary on How to Be American. Here is a snippet: "How to be American is as much a matter of citizenship as part of a broader cultural debate about identity that has raged since the nation’s founding,
The St. Louis University Law Journal has published an immigration symposium. Here are the articles: Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture: Immigration and the Supreme Court in the Early Days of the Second Trump Administration Kevin R. Johnson Articles PDF Cruel Deference: State Narratives, Credibility, and Power in Convention Against Torture
In this episode of The Law y La Ley, Professors Ediberto Román and Craig Jackson break down the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and what it means for immigrants, employers, and the future of immigration law in the United States. The discussion
FROM DOCUMENTED About 90% of undocumented farmworkers report that family separation is their top concern amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. So says a new survey carried out by the UFW Foundation, which asked 2,250 people, mostly undocumented, about how ICE raids are directly impacting them. The report
I am pleased that the California Museum in Sacramento has a new exhibit coming. Here is the Museum's description: Help Wanted / Leave Now: “Operation Wetback” & The Revolving Door of Mass Deportation "On view August 13, 2026 – January 10, 2027 | En vista 13 de agosto de 2026
Here is the report. From the summary: "This report focuses on the current administration’s systematic use of [Asylum Cooperative Agreements with other nations) as a pretext to “pretermit,” or summarily reject, the asylum cases of tens of thousands of people with pending immigration court cases, without the immigration
A little over a week ago, I blogged about the first case ever brought in the U.S. Alien Terrorist Removal Court. Here is the court's webpage, with a list of judges. Until today, there was little known about the case, which for security reasons was shrouded in
The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) is pleased to announce the release of a new report examining the experiences of asylum seekers who arrived in New York City beginning in 2022 as they navigated entry into the City's workforce, along with lessons learned from the
The ICE killing of a man in Houston remains in the news. The Los Angeles Times reports that a federal judge has ordered the release of a key witness in the fatal shooting of a Mexican homebuilder in Houston. U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison ordered the release of Jose