The Trump administration generally has been tough on asylum seekers and greatly restricted the number of refugee admissions. But white South Africans have done okay. Gerald Imray for the Associated Press writes that "U.S. President Donald Trump has expanded the number of refugee places available for white South
This podcast features author Marla Ramírez and her book Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican Women Who Endure Repatriation (Harvard University Press 2025). The conversation reviews the history of mass deportations, racial profiling, family separation, and the targeting of Mexican American communities during the repatriation era - when even
AI is the rage. Devil or god-send, who knows? Perhaps AI can improve law student admissions and faculty hiring – and perhaps immigrant admissions and removals. Check out this contribution to the Rutgers University Law Review immigration law symposium: A Role for Artificial Intelligence in a Politicized Immigration World by Richard
An investigation by THE CITY, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumented population. See THE CITY, Documented.
NPR: The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its iris scanning capacity as part of its mass deportation efforts. Privacy experts have raised concerns that the agency is collecting biometric data from detained individuals. Last week, DHS awarded a $25 million no-bid contract to BI2 Technologies, a company that specializes
Press release from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security: "Immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens frequently coach their clients to conceal their past and even outright lie in their asylum claims WASHINGTON – The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a new directive instructing U.S. Immigration and
Cuban migrants in the past have avoided the wrath of the U.S. immigration laws. The Trump administration has deported thousands of Cubans, many of them older adults, to Mexico, denying them due process and leaving many stranded without access to basic services, Human Rights Watch said in a report
Check out this press release from DHS today: Immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens frequently coach their clients to conceal their past and even outright lie in their asylum claims WASHINGTON – The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a new directive instructing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
I'll admit it, I learned about this book from Ronny Chieng's interview with the author on The Daily Show. (Which, let's be honest, I only caught on TikTok.) It's now rocketed to the top of my summer reading list. SPIT: A Life
Katie Buehler for Law360 reports that the U.S. Supreme Court today reversed a Fourth Circuit order revisin the immigration judges union's challenge to restrictions on their ability to speak publicly. The per curiam Court found that the court of appeals abused its discretion by relying on arguments
President Trump has been dramatically changing the immigration courts. As Jennifer Lee Koh put it in a recent article, "Amidst the dizzying array of developments taking place under the banner of mass deportation, the second Trump Administration is engaged in a sustained effort to fundamentally transform the country’s
Steve Vladeck looks at developments last week in the cases of Mahmoud Khalil and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He sees them as "underscor[ing] both the role courts can play in checking immigration abuses and the limits those courts can often confront."