The Marshall Project has released a detailed report finding that the number of individuals in immigrant detention transferred more than five times has more than tripled in the second Trump administration, compared with the last year of the Biden administration.
The use of the word "alien" in the U.S. immigration laws is problematic. But it is frequently the term of choice of the Trump administration in discussing immigration and immigrants. NPR reports that researchers are speaking out against a new White House web page, saying that it
Education * Most Americans broadly support public education for undocumented students – regardless of their political affiliation and religion William McCorkle, College of Charleston; E. Kyle Romero, University of North Florida; Lina-Maria Murillo, The University of Texas at Austin Some states are trying to challenge a long-held precedent that undocumented children are
The Immigrants’ Rights/International Human Rights Clinic at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey, is seeking to hire an experienced attorney to serve as the Managing Attorney for our component of the state-wide Detention and Deportation Defense Initiative (DDDI). The Seton Hall Law DDDI works alongside
The EU has passed new regulations on immigration enforcement to facilitate deportations of undocumented migrants, reports the Guardian. * Enforcement officials will have the power to "search people’s homes 'or other relevant premises' and seiz[e]... personal belongings in order to ensure compliance with a deportation order.
FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off on June 11, hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the United States. But not everyone who wants to attend a U.S. match will be able to enter the country. Stricter U.S. immigration admissions and enforcement policies are limiting access for fans from dozens
Immigrant of the Day, Steve Hilton, a conservative political strategist and former Fox News host, is making it a race for Governor of California. Polling well, he is seeking to make it in the top two in today's election and proceed to the November election. The current leader
From Latino USA: Caitlin Dickerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at The Atlantic, is one of the leading voices on immigration coverage for more than a decade. In this episode on Latino USA, Dickerson talks about her recent reporting exploring why some mixed-status families are choosing to “self-deport,” what that actually
CBS has some troubling news about new plans to deny asylum applications without a hearing. The news outlet apparently got their hands on "internal documents" that I've yet to find online. These would allow USCIS' asylum officers to reject affirmative asylum applications subject to the
Professor Amelia Wilson’s article, Immigration as Continuing Seizure is appearing in the George Washington Law Review. Here is the abstract: Immigration detention is “civil” by definition but exhibits characteristics typically associated with criminal enforcement. Stemming from this tension, legal doctrine is inconsistent on how and when immigrants can challenge
The beat goes on. NPR reports that detainees at the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in the United States filed suit yesterday. "The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, details `inhumane' treatment inside Camp East Montana on the
CBS News offers a troubling report. "More than 6,300 children under 18, some as young as two months old, have been detained by federal immigration authorities during President Trump's second term. . . . Ninety-seven percent had no criminal record." Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrants Rights Clinic