The World Cup will soon begin. But not for one referee from Somalia. The Associated Press reports that Somali referee Omar Artan will not officiate in the World Cup after being denied entry into the United States. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday that a Somali national who
From Minnesota Public Radio: "The city of Minneapolis estimates the federal immigration enforcement surge from December 2025 to April 2026 cost the city, residents and businesses $700 million." That figure includes losses in business revenue and wages for employees, and additional costs to the city, such as police
Washington Post: "The House on Tuesday narrowly passed a $70 billion budget package, ending a four-month lapse in funding for immigration enforcement agencies and capping a fight that exposed tensions between President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans." The House passed the bill by a 214-212 vote along party
Following approval from the House and Senate, today Trump signed the Secure America Act into law. Here's how the White House is framing the issue: After four years of Democrats’ dangerous open-border policies that fueled chaos and lawlessness across the country, President Trump has delivered the most secure
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin spoke at the National Sheriffs’ Association Annual Conference on Monday, stating: “The 287(g) program can be a tremendous asset to you and to the country... If we had the participation of all the county sheriffs that are in this building right now, think how much
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick for the American Immigration Council reports on more immigration action in the federal courts. Late last year, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) suspended the processing of immigration benefits for nationals of 39 different countries. That suspension was supposedly in response to a tragic shooting of two members
NPR reports that a federal judge yesterday struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, which conflicts with an earlier federal court. The administration announced the fee increase and claimed that it was a way of preventing foreign workers from taking U.S. jobs.
Deportation in the Deep State by Eric Fish (Stanford Law Review forthcoming Abstract Since 1997, low-level immigration agents have conducted fast-paced deportation hearings. These hearings, called Expedited Removals, circumvent the formal immigration court process. They involve an immigration agent interviewing an immigrant and deciding whether to order them deported, with
The U Visa at 25: Legislative Missteps, Bureaucratic Neglect, and Geographic Roulette by Jason A. Cade, 101 New York University Law Review Online (forthcoming 2026) Abstract A quarter century ago, Congress created the U visa with dual goals: protecting immigrant crime victims and facilitating law enforcement cooperation by removing deportation
When it comes to understanding the U.S. immigration enforcement system through data, co-editor of the ImmProf blog Austin Kocher’s Substack has it covered. The researcher and geographer’s newsletter has gained a 12,000-subscriber following for its analysis of immigration data and policy. Read an interview by Documented
The anniversary of D-Day has attracted much attention and was marked by the release of the movie Pressure, which recounted the tense countdown to the Allies landing in France in 1944. The Associated Press reports that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a D-Day anniversary speech yesterday to link
Managing Deportation: How Docket Control Replaced Substantive Relief in Immigration Courts by Linus Chan, SMU Law Review, volume 79, issue 1, 2026 Abstract In the modern deportation era, immigration courts saw their ability to grant relief from deportation undergo significant restrictions, constraining individualized discretion in favor of "categorical"