NPR reports that a federal judge ruled yesterday that the Trump administration's effort to aggregate Americans' personal data to verify voter eligibility is unlawful. As a result, the data tool known as SAVE cannot be used in its current form. Several states have already processed their entire
USA Today reports that, although President Trump often claims to be targeting undocumented immigrants for removal, "new data shows legal pathways for immigration have also taken a dramatic hit. In 2025, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved 8.3 million applications compared to the 11.4 million
The Associated Press reports that a federal district court has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Governor "Tim Walz and other state officials, accusing the Justice Department of using its investigatory powers to retaliate against state officials for not cooperating with federal efforts to crack
My husband received a copy of the book Terrible Maps for Father's Day. The fellow behind the book–Michael Howe–started Terrible Maps on social media. One of his posts is this from 2023: The title: "How aliens see Earth." Pretty horrifying in light of this
When I recommended Sublimation four days ago, I'd only made it through half of the book. I have now finished it, and I'm here to tell you READ THIS ONE. Seriously. It is the most original and engrossing fictional take on immigration that I've
The backlog of Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) applicants was 100,000 in 2023, according to a E. Tammy Kim's report in The New Yorker. Under the Biden administration, unaccompanied minors with SIJ status were eligible for a work permit while they waited for visa approval. Under the
Earlier this month, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report "Immigration Detention: Waste and Performance Issues at Camp East Montana Provide Valuable Lessons for Future Facilities." Here is "What GAO Found": "In August 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s largest
The Trump administration's promised denaturalization campaign is taking off. TRAC Immigration reports that, starting last month, the administration dramatically increased the number of denaturalization actions it filed seeking to revoke U.S. citizenship. "While historically the federal government brought an average of less than 1 denaturalization civil
It is not really news to readers of this blog but it is in the newspapers. The Guardian reports that "[f]ederal agents have arrested hundreds of immigrants off New York and New Jersey streets in recent months in a stealth enforcement campaign that disproportionately targeted people from Latin
Asylum, Refugees, and Other Humanitarian Protections Hiroshi Motomura | Maryellen Fullerton | Juliet P. Stumpf | Pratheepan Gulasekaram | Rose Cuison-Villazor Publisher's Description Asylum, Refugees, and Other Humanitarian Protections is a successor casebook to Forced Migration: Law and Policy, 2nd Edition. Its content is identical to Chapter Six of the comprehensive casebook,
The idea isn't new, DJT has floated "NICE" before. But today, he opened a poll on Truth Social – should ICE rebrand as NICE? I love that the agents themselves oppose a name change. FWIW, more than 50K have weighed in.
I recently stumbled upon this March 2026 study from the Libertarian/Conservative think tank, the CATO Institute: Illegal Immigrant Incarceration Rates, 2010–2024: The Demographics of American Imprisonment. The report starts by noting that "available evidence shows that [undocumented noncitizens] are less crime-prone than native-born Americans." Moreover, "