From Immigrant Defenders Law Center press release: "Court Strikes Down Remain in Mexico Policy Riverside, CA (October 9, 2026) – On Wednesday, a federal court declared the Trump administration’s implementation of the Remain in Mexico policy unlawful and ordered that it be vacated and set aside. The Court found
Philip Marcelo, Jennifer Peltz and Anthony Izaguirre for the Associated Press reports thar "[a] federal immigration officer shot a Dominican man in the neck as he drove in a car with a 5-year-old boy [yesterday], officials said. The Department of Homeland Security said it was seeking to arrest the
Sanctuary and the Data State by Fatma Marouf & Huyen Pham, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 126, Forthcoming 2026 Abstract Historically, sanctuary policies focused on protected physical space and limits on police cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—rejecting detainer requests, restricting jail access, and declining formal collaboration agreements. But
Reuters reports (and here) that the Trump administration has frozen some lawful permanent resident filings by Microsoft (MSFT.O), Adobe(ADBE.O) and major IT outsourcers and opened probes into nine top universities, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh, Arizona State, and UC
From a press release from Human Rights Watch: US: Deportations to African Countries Not Their Own Denied Due Process; Some Returned to Danger in Home Countries * The United States has sent more than 500 people whom it cannot deport to their own countries, because of the danger they would face,
Recalibrating the Plenary Power Doctrine After Trump v. Hawaii, Thuraissigiam, and Loper Bright by Abdul Aziz Meslat Abstract This Article reexamines the constitutional foundations and contemporary operation of the plenary power doctrine in U.S. immigration law. For more than a century, the doctrine has afforded Congress and the Executive
The Georgetown Immigration Law Journal is seeking paper proposals for an in-person symposium to be held in Spring 2027, with publication of featured papers to follow in a symposium issue of the Journal’s 41st Volume. We invite scholars and practitioners to submit proposals for the Journal’s Spring 2027
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California Republican candidate for Governor Steve Hilton claims to favor legal but not unlawful immigration. The Democratic candidate, Xavier Becerra, has a more moderate position on immigration. The differences came out in a recent debate. Some Republican candidates have criticized a recent Hilton campaign ad as wried and worse. Check
NPR reports that the FBI is reportedly facing serious staffing shortages in its counterintelligence squads as the Trump administration has focused resources on immigration.
The Trump administration stripped Medicaid coverage from hundreds of thousands of low-income immigrants across the United States last week as part of its $1 trillion cut to social services enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The Medicaid coverage cuts are just the latest move by the federal government
Fox News reports that "President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that France’s escalating riots were being driven by `out of control mass migration,' as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz echoed those concerns and blamed unchecked immigration and broader European policy failures for helping fuel