The Immigration Article of the Day is “The Justice Gap for Unaccompanied Minors in US Immigration Court: Rurality, Resources, & Client Characteristics as Determinants of Access to Counsel,” just published in Law & Social Inquiry, by Chiara Galli and Tatiana Padilla. Here is the abstract: Despite their status as a
More sad news. From ICE: "Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva, a 45-year-old Venezuelan illegal alien, died in ICE custody July 13 while being transferred between detention facilities in Georgia."
The American Civil Liberties Union has released a new report detailing Immigration and Customs Enforcement's extensive use of force. The report examined more than 1,200 immigration enforcement operations across eight states and found that nearly one-third involved force or the threat of force. Researchers documented officers tackling
As Kevin wrote yesterday, ICE moved to suspend most traffic stops in the wake of the agency's TWO deadly shootings just this week. However, President Trump reversed course. He took to social media to defend the practice writing: "we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.
Despite rising levels of migration restriction worldwide, a new poll finds that people worldwide have high levels of support for refugee protection. The poll surveyed over 20,000 adults in 29 countries and found that two-thirds of those who participated in the poll "agreed that people in danger should
As reported earlier on the ImmProf Blog, the Spanish government has approved an extraordinary administrative regularization program for migrants already residing in Spain. The program is designed to provide lawful status for those present in Spain prior to January 1, 2026 who can show at least five months of residency
Not many scholars defend the discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Act, which the Supreme Court upheld in 1889 in a decision that continues to immunize the immigration laws from judicial review. But the Trump administration does! Stuart Anderson for Forbes (White House Defends 1882 Immigration Law Excluding Chinese Immigrants) reports that a
Texas, Maine, and now Florida. From the Miami Herald.
After another horrible killing yesterday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents reportedly have been instructed to suspend most vehicle stops nationwide following fatal shootings in Texas and Maine in the last week. The suspension was reported by CNN and CBS News. In the midst of a re-election bid, Senator
While the United States has been accepting white refugees from South Africa, the nation of South Africa has been busy deporting black migrants from its territory. PBS reports that more than 53,000 migrants have been deported in the last month. Most (more than 80%) hail from Malawi--a country that&
A Role for Artificial Intelligence in a Politicized Immigration World by Richard Frankel, Rutgers University Law Review | Vol. 77:1333 | 2025 Abstract Many debates about artificial intelligence boil down to one central question: who is better (or worse) at making decisions? Artificial intelligence doomsayers worry that AI will supplant human
From the New Yorker: The conditions at the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso were nightmarish. Tents had been hastily set up to house immigrant detainees, and much of the facility, which is known as Camp East Montana, was still under construction when the first people began to arrive.