Our healthcare system relies on noncitizens. This truism has mattered at multiple stages of my own life. For the seven years that I lived in North Dakota, obtaining healthcare was not easy. Medical professionals weren't and aren't flocking to this state what with its population under
"Subject To The Jurisdiction" As Legal Text by Keith E. Whittington & James Heilpern Abstract The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship to all persons born in the United States and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." This Article challenges the allegiance-based model by applying
Third Way and UnidosUS have released new national polling that sheds light on how voters— especially Latinos — are responding to the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Third Way and UnidosUS worked with Impact Research and BSP Research to conduct a phone and text-to-web survey of 1,000 likely voters and
Abstract This paper studies the impact of birthright citizenship on youth crime. We leverage a German reform which automatically granted birthright citizenship to eligible immigrant children born in Germany after January 1, 2000 and administrative crime data from three federal states. We find that immigrant youth who acquired citizenship at
Katherine Pompilio and Benjamin Wittes for LawFare discusses "[w]hat . . . it look[s] like when the government violates court orders in 300 separate immigration habeas cases . . . ." The article presents a current dataset of violations of immigrant habeas corpus rulings.
Nearly a year before federal immigration agents fatally shot Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti in incidents in Minneapolis, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez, a U.S. citizen, during a traffic encounter in Texas. Martinez is considered the first of at least
Transitional Citizenship by Jayesh Rathod Abstract In recent years, transgender U.S. citizens have been the target of state and federal policies that restrict access to gender-affirming care, limit legal recognition, and outlaw ordinary expressions of gender identity. These measures coincide with rising social hostility and harm, including workplace discrimination,
The ImmigrationProf Trump v. Barbara Symposium continues with The Citizenship Clause is Part of an Anti-Aristocracy Constitution by D. Carolina Núñez The oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara predictably centered on a single phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause: “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” This is the only
Welcome to the Trump Administration’s Board of Immigration Appeals. The Immigrant Always Loses. by Jason Cade, Yale Law Journal Forum, forthcoming 2026 Abstract Volume 29 of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ precedential decisions is not a collection of independent legal judgments. It is a project. The Trump administration has
Detained migrants in Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” are being beaten and pepper sprayed, according to lawyers. Meanwhile, detainees in Camp East Montana in Texas are reporting “psychological abuse” and inhumane conditions. CBS News and The Guardian report.
Los Jornaleros Del Norte is providing the soundtrack for anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. The band plays protest songs whose lyrics reflect the hopes and struggles of undocumented workers as they evade immigration agents.
NPR: "Millions of immigrants are stuck in legal limbo as a growing backlog of immigration applications leaves them vulnerable to deportation. An NPR review of data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the DHS agency that approves immigration applications, shows that nearly 12 million applications await a