CBS News reports that the Justice Department is proposing a rule to empower immigration judges to hold attorneys for immigrants, their clients and witnesses "in contempt if they violate court orders, in a move that departs from historical practice and which legal experts warn could be unconstitutional." But
I think I've found the absolute best song to accompany your class on marriage fraud this year: Ludacris' Rollout (My Business). Fair warning, you might want to read the lyrics before playing. The video below features the clean version, but even then it's not necessarily
The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) today released its latest estimates of the size of the unauthorized immigrant population in the United States, pegging the number at 15.8 million in mid-2024, after hovering in the 11 million range throughout the decade beginning in 2010. The increase is primarily driven by
Recent deaths during ICE traffic stops are raising questions about the legal limits of pulling someone over.
In 412 incidents, immigration enforcement officers misused crowd-control weapons during protests from June 2025 to June 2026, according to an analysis from Physicians for Human Rights at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley. Here is the report.
Cal Matters reports that U.S. immigration officers used racial slurs, including “wet” and “tonks,” to identify people to target while sweeping through Los Angeles last year, according to text messages cited in a new court filing asking a federal judge there to bar agents from racial profiling. Plaintiffs in
KQED reports that local rapid response networks report that over a dozen people have been arrested in regional airports since late June. More than a dozen people have been detained at Bay Area airports since June 27. Following the surge in arrests, immigrants’ rights advocates are urging people without U.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has received recent reports of DHS enforcement actions at USCIS asylum offices. These reports reflect a broader enforcement environment in which noncitizens may face arrest even when appearing for required immigration appointments. In some cases, clients had criminal convictions or other past criminal issues,
As Kevin noted yesterday, DHS is implementing a new rule changing the affirmative asylum process by allowing USCIS to refer cases to IJs without interviewing applicants. The official White House Truth Social account supports the change, naturally, writing: "President Trump is working to CRUSH the immigration asylum backlog -
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has expired for Haitians and Syrians. News reports talk about a Trump administration effort to remove former TPS recipients. A month ago, the Supreme Court in Mullin v. Doe curtailed courts’ ability to block the Trump administration from revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitians and
The Trump administration recently issued a new public charge rule. Medha D. Makhlouf and Nicole Kreisberg for The Conversation (Trump administration changes to ‘public charge’ rule could keep millions of immigrants – and their US citizen kids – from getting healthcare they need) analyze the potentially devastating impacts of the new rule:
The Washington Post has created a 3D model of an ICE holding cell at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC. It's really quite impressive and would make a good assignment for your class on immigration detention. (Here's a second article where WaPo explains how they did it.