News from the U.S. Supreme Court. The big news today was that the Court did not decide the birthright citizenship case of Trump v. Barbara. It likely will be handed down tomorrow or the next day. But the Court today granted certiorari to review a Second Circuit decision holding
As has occurred throughout history, xenophobia is sweeping the world. The New York Times reports that xenophobic violence has been mounting in South Africa, with mobs of anti-immigrant protesters march in Johannesburg and elsewhere. The protesters threaten migrants and attack foreign-owned businesses. (This link is free.) One anti-immigration group has
News reports on the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela are sobering. I fear that the crisis is just beginning. The Latin Times reports that, as the nation "struggles with the aftermath of the twin powerful earthquakes that devastated large portions of the country, Venezuelan Americans, immigration attorneys, and community leaders
The Asymmetric Effects of Migration Policy Change by Anna Closas, Adam B. Cox, David Hausman & Mary Hoopes Abstract Migrants change their behavior more in response to welcoming border policy changes than to new restrictions. We draw on interviews with ninety-five migrants and staff in shelters to help explain why.
First DJT plucked OK Senator Markwayne Mullin to head DHS. Now he's picked a former OK State Trooper to head ICE: Lance Schroyer. In fairness, NBC reports that Mullin pushed for Schroyer. Which makes sense of the OK-OK hiring. Mullin issued a statement yesterday, saying: "Once confirmed,
Alex Nguyen for Mother Jones reports that, last week, eight protesters who the Justice Department accused of having connections to Antifa were sentenced to decades in prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that wounded one police officer: "The demonstrator who was convicted of shooting and
It is not really an immigration story but does touches about movement in the United States. NPR's Here & Now Anytime episode "How Route 66 got its kicks" explores the episode explores how "America's Main Street" became a migration route during the
The Immigration Habeas Deluge: Adjudicating Mass Government Torts by Mary D. Fan, Forthcoming, 102 Indiana Law Journal __ (2026). Abstract Federal courts are awash in a flood of immigration habeas petitions because of executive-branch policy ruptures from longstanding practice, such as mandating detention for people formerly eligible for release. While district
One year ago, we wrote about U.S. citizens receiving asylum in Russia--as in, leaving the U.S. for Russia. These émigrés were looking for country with more "traditional, conservative values." Russia's "Shared Values" visa was nicknamed the "anti-woke" visa, and citizens
Donathan L. Brown for The Conversation writes that "It tends to start with a violent assault. Then video documentation of the incident quickly circulates online, priming people to see not just an individual crime but a broader story about perceived dangerous outsiders. So it was on June 8, 2026,
This week, Venezuela was hit by two large earthquakes. The official death toll is 920 but experts say that it may end up closer to 10,000, which would make it "among the deadliest earthquakes in Latin America in the last century." The US has responded to the
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