Immigration enforcement affected both immigrant and nonimmigrant families across the US in 2025 Nearly half of adults (46 percent) in the US who were aware of immigration enforcement activities in their communities were worried about being approached by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other immigration authorities. As heightened immigration enforcement
NPR reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement acknowledged that the agency is using spyware tools that can intercept encrypted messages as part of its efforts to disrupt fentanyl trafficking. Acting director Todd Lyons said in the letter that ICE uses various tools as part of its mission to disrupt and
The Supreme Court heard oral argument last week in Trump v. Barbara, which considers President Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship. In a series of blog posts over the next few weeks, leading scholars will offer thoughts on the oral arguments and the case, its potential legacy, and
Resurrecting Immigration Releases by Lindsay Nash, 135 Yale L.J. 1533 (2026) Abstract The nation's "mandatory" immigration-detention laws sustain its largest civil-imprisonment system-and just radically expanded in scope and breadth. These laws consign broad swaths of suspected noncitizens to no-bail pretrial detention, denying tens of thousands
No immigration news seems to surprise me anymore. And I am not sure that that is a good thing. Check out this story: "ICE arrests newlywed wife of Army soldier at military base just days after they were married." A new way of celebrating a marriage: "A
Bruce Springsteen is on the Land of Hope and Dreams American tour, which is stopping this week in Los Angeles. He opened in Portland with a cover of the song "War," a topical song in these times. I am sure that fans are looking forward to hearing the
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America is authored by Michael Lou, a writer for the New Yorker. Here is the publisher's pitch: In Strangers in the Land, award-winning journalist Michael Luo tells the story of a people who, beginning
A busy bee, Pratheepan Gulasekaram has two articles worthy of recognition. Busing & The Sanctuary City by Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Rose Cuison-Villazor, and Rick Su Abstract Sanctuary cities demonstrated notable legal resilience during the first Trump administration, withstanding legal and political pressure aimed at dismantling their policies. That resilience, however, was
Once more, DJT's social media feed is *wild.* Check it out: Do you think he's really trying to reach SCOTUS? I mean, I just don't see Alito spending time on Truth Social wondering what DJT thinks. Is it just "good" politics from
Many people are still talking about the oral arguments last week in the birthright citizenship case of Trump v. Barbara. SCOTUS blog has great coverage and analysis of the case, with lots of great analysis by Supreme Court experts and law professors, including Akhil and Vik Amar and César Cuauhtémoc
Bad news from the immigration front.
Last fall, NPR had a show explaining "What is ICE? What was it created to do? And what's changed in 2025? Today on the show, the history of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and how it tracks the story of immigration, and politics, in the U.S."