The Supreme Court just days ago invalidated President Trump's attempt to restrict birthright citizenship. Top officials in the administration are now exploring alternative routes to limiting the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright clause, following the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this week. The 19th reports that "Markwayne Mullin,
Democratic and Republican lawmakers called for the release of Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja, a Nigerian national, after she was arrested on a Sunday while headed to church. She was released hours later. The Sister "was walking the block between her home and the Catholic Church where she attends Sunday
On her blog, Professor Anna O. Law, author on a book on the history of U.S. citizenship, "evaluate[s] the accuracy of the historical claims made in Trump v Barbara. The dissents miss aspects of US migration and citizenship. The majority gets most of it right but their
93.8% The current denial rate of asylum cases nationwide. That’s the highest rate ever recorded, as ImmigrationProf blogger Austin Kocher reports on his Substack, rising from 44% in September 2023 and 80% in April 2025.
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At the end of each Supreme Court Term, I compile the Court's immigration rulings. Click here for a review of the immigration decisions from the 2024 Term. Sorry for the length of this post but it was a busy 2025 Term in terms of immigration. In his second
Deference in Immigration after Loper Bright by Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Loy. U. Chi. L. J. Forthcoming Abstract The Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo marks a turning point in administrative law by discarding Chevron framework and requiring courts to independently interpret ambiguous statutes. Immigration law—largely
The Market For Deportation: Private Profits & The Machinery Of Removal by Laura I Appleman Abstract Although legal scholarship has extensively examined the profit-driven architecture of the American carceral state, the rapidly expanding for-profit apparatus embedded within immigration enforcement remains comparatively underexamined. This Article addresses that critical gap, contending that
Promising to be a blockbuster from the outset, Trump v. Barbara generated the most public attention of any immigration case in decades. E.g., here; here; here; here; here. The Court addressed whether the President's Executive Order denying birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants conflicts with
The long-awaited decision from SCOTUS is here. The justices uphold birthright citizenship in a 5-4 decision. Or 6-3. Depends on your accounting. Chief Justice Roberts is the author of the majority opinion, and he is joined by Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett, and Jackson. Justice Kavanaugh concurs in the judgment and
As reported yesterday, Venezuelan Americans have called for a halt to deportations to Venezuela. NPR reports that the U.S. government last week "deported 146 Venezuelans from Texas to Caracas. Passengers on that plane, which included women and children, were being processed in a guarded hotel when two powerful
The Trump administration has been transforming the immigration courts. The transformation continues. Celine Castronuovo for Bloomberg Law reports that "[t]he Defense Department is planning to begin involuntarily activating military lawyers to serve as immigration judges and to represent the government in cases involving detained migrant children, according to