Kyung Ju Lee and Jeanne Batalova provide lots of information about Indian immigrants here: "Today, approximately 3.2 million Indian immigrants reside in the United States, comprising 6 percent of the total foreign-born population of 50.2 million people. Immigrants from India rank as the second largest immigrant group
"The Trump administration is subjecting broad categories of immigrants applying for legal immigration benefits to enhanced security checks, and is pausing some cases while the changes are implemented, according to internal government documents obtained by CBS News."
The Borderline Constitution by Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Yale Law Journal Forum (2026) Abstract This Feature identifies and theorizes a distinct constitutional regime that federal courts have constructed at, adjacent to, and because of the nation’s border. Drawing together strands of First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment law, along with habeas
NPR reports on the support of seniors for immigrants. Some of those interviewed had caretakers who are immigrants.
Khari Johnson and Wendy Fry for CalMatters report that the state of California is preparing to share with an outside organization information about driver’s license holders, including undocumented immigrants. "That breaks a promise the state made a decade ago when it began issuing licenses to unauthorized immigrants, advocates
NPR: Every president except for Trump has supported TPS, according to NPR’s Nina Totenberg. Haiti and Syria are two test cases in Trump's effort to get rid of the program. Haitians received temporary protected status after a devastating earthquake killed more than 300,000 people in 2010.
Over the last few weeks, this blog has posted contributions to a symposium on the oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the case before the U.S. Supreme Court that will determine the future of birthright citizenship. Here is a compilation of the contributions. Jack Chin on Lessons from the
I love how posting a random idea online can catch the president's eye--like this from "verified MAGA journalist" Alyssa (no last name) which made it to DJT's Truth Social:
Believe It or Not: Check out this story from the New Republic: Trump Judge Says Some Women Are Just a “Warm, Wet Hole” According to the story, "Melissa Isaak, an Army veteran and reservist, was hired by the Justice Department on April 8 as a temporary immigration judge. She
Birthright Citizenship, Unwritten Constitutionalism, and the Nature of the Union by John Mikhail, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities | Vol. 36:3, 2025 Abstract Many of Jonathan Gienapp’s core arguments in his outstanding new book, Against Constitutional Originalism, are well-taken, and they represent important challenges to any theory
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Aaron Chen is a stand-up comic hailing from Sydney, Australia. His show Funny Garden is currently streaming on Netflix. (You may also recognize Chen from his role as George on Fisk.) I happened to catch this snippet of Funny Garden on my socials: One clip, two visas: the E3 and