Adam Feldman for SCOTUSBLOG ("What oral argument told us in the birthright citizenship case") "closely analyze[s] the transcript to really understand how the argument unfolded – who drove it, what it centered on, and what it tells us about a possible outcome." His bottom line: "
Exclusion by Design: Immigrant Racialization and Temporary Legal Status by Ming Hsu Chen, Jennifer M. Chacon & Shannon Gleeson Abstract Migrant workers enter the United States on temporary visas more often than on green cards that lead to U.S. citizenship, and the majority come from countries whose emigrants would
NPR: Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas is the largest immigrant detention center in the United States. It also is one of the facilities with the most detainee deaths. It opened in August 2025, and three of the 25 people who died in ICE detention since October were detained
Third Country Removals and Counterfeit Due Process in Immigration Enforcement by Matthew Boaz Abstract In the United States, the federal government is pursuing colossal deportation goals through novel mechanisms that include rapid expulsions, asylum pretermission, and chain refoulement. These unruly innovations, known collectively as third country removals, send individuals to
The Department of State issued the following press release today: Last night, the niece and grand niece of deceased Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Qasem Soleimani were arrested by federal agents following Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s termination of their lawful permanent resident (LPR) status. Hamideh Soleimani Afshar
DJT took a break from posting about his Iran war and approval numbers to throw shade on immigration: I wasn't familiar with the quote "If you import The Third World, you become The Third World." Unsurprisingly, it's a Stephen Miller quote from a 2024
International Migration of Children for a Better Life: Human Rights, State Power, and Nations' Duties by James G. Dwyer, Oxford University Press. 2025 Abstract In much of the earth's territory, children are prey. In much of the earth's territory, parental abandonment is an act of
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This Borderlines Podcast is entitled "Would You Pass the Citizenship Test?" in Canada. The podcast discusses the Canadian citizenship test, which sounds a lot like a discussion of the U.S. citizenship test for naturalization. It is a fun listen, even with a reference to Apu's
The Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN) is hiring a Federal Litigation Staff/Senior Staff Attorney.
University of California Press, Dec. 2025 Publisher's Abstract Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic participant observation, Illegality in the Heartland interrogates existing understandings of illegality and Latinidad by centering the voices and experiences of Indigenous and mestizo Latino immigrants in the American heartland during the first Trump administration,
The Citizenship Clause's Residence Requirement by Thomas H. Lee Abstract The debate about President Trump’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order denying automatic American citizenship to children born in the United States to unlawfully or temporarily present foreign parents is divided into two polar-opposite camps asserting that it’
Gregory Svirnovskiy for Politico reports on the ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and music legend Bruce Springsteen, a longtime critic of the president. Trump compared Springsteen to a “dried up prune” and said he has “long had a horrible and incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome” in a post