Litigating Birthright Citizenship In The Shadow Of World War II: The Continuing Relevance Of A Forgotten Case by Rachel E. Rosenbloom, 31 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 1 (forthcoming 2026) Abstract With the question of birthright citizenship before the Supreme Court this term in Trump v. Barbara, this Article
A new Telemundo investigation reveals that bad actors have been increasingly targeting migrants by pretending to be immigration enforcement agents. (The link will click you through to an NBC report on the investigation--NBC and Telemundo are both owned by NBCUniversal, which in turn is owned by Comcast.) Telemundo uncovered "
Happy Memorial Day! Immigrants long have served in the U.S. military. Some have made the ultimate sacrifice. "According to one figure, 300 foreign-born soldiers died in combat between 2001 and 2013. One of these immigrant patriots, Marine Lance Corporal Jose Gutierrez, 22, was one of the first U.
From the Intercept: "Colorado law enforcement officials warned their counterparts across the country that social media posts by the Department of Homeland Security recruiting for ICE contained so many white supremacist themes that they could endanger the public, according to internal records obtained by The Intercept. The Colorado Information
Migrating Across the Color Line: Racial Barriers to Belonging for Foreign Students in US by Ming Hsu Chen Abstract International students hail from hundreds of countries each year, but the vast majority come from Asian countries like India and China. The next largest sending countries are Latin American. Their experiences
On October 24, 2025, the SMU Law Review hosted a symposium titled “Immigration and the Constitution: Evolving Doctrines and Emerging Conflicts.” Although the Constitution is mostly silent on immigration, the subject has become a fashpoint for some of today’s most pressing constitutional debates. Few areas of law so vividly
The Immigration Habeas Deluge: Adjudicating Mass Government Torts by Mary D. Fan, Forthcoming, 102 Ind. L.J. __ (2026). Abstract Federal courts are awash in a flood of immigration habeas petitions because of executive-branch policy ruptures from longstanding practice, such as mandating detention for people formerly eligible for release. While district
New data from the UK Office for National Statistics and the UK Home Office shows that international migration to the UK has dropped significantly. The BBC summarizes the data, which boils down to 171,000 admissions in 2025, down nearly half from 331,000 in 2024. It's the
Keeping up with immigration politics is exhausting and complicated. Everything in D.C. is tied together. From the Los Angeles Times: "Senate Republicans appeared increasingly unlikely to meet their self-imposed deadline for passing a roughly $70 billion immigration enforcement bill this week as disputes over security funding for the
VISITING CLINICAL PROFESSOR OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR The University of Iowa College of Law is seeking qualified applicants to teach for the 2026–2027 academic year as a Visiting Clinical Professor or Associate Professor, with the possibility of an extension through the 2027–2028 academic year.We are seeking an experienced
The Market For Deportation: Private Profits & The Machinery Of Removal by Laura I Appleman Abstract Although legal scholarship has extensively examined the profit-driven architecture of the American carceral state, the rapidly expanding for-profit apparatus embedded within immigration enforcement remains comparatively underexamined. This Article addresses that critical gap, contending that
The saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been long and winding, some might say to hell and back. Alan Feuer for the New York Times has the latest in his case: "A federal judge [today] dismissed the criminal case against the immigrant Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, ruling that the