From the Daily Beast: Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tried to launch a new border wall project to pull attention away from her mounting problems. "Noem . . . proposed to build 500 miles of border wall near Big Bend National Park in Texas. The plot went against Border
Words and Bond: Detention Under the Immigration and Nationality Act by Peter Margulies Abstract Expanded immigration detention has been a pillar of Trump 2.0 policy. Immigration officials are shifting from what this Article calls a tribunal-centered approach, in which an Immigration Judge within the Department of Justice determines bond,
I had the pleasure of attending the University of Baltimore Law Review's Symposium titled The Great Regression: Immigration Law in Crisis. One of the most memorable presentations of the day came from the last speaker on the last panel: Heather Scavone, Former USCIS associate counsel (and former Elon
60 Minutes and 60 Minutes Overtime have reported on the immigration and border policy of the Trump administration leading up to and during President Trump's second term in office. Here are some of those stories. The blueprint of Trump's deportation plan: A questionable approach by Eisenhower
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 undermined by Texas's busing program in 2022 and 2023
Sergio Olmos for CalMatters reports on a disturbing report about immigration enforcement: "Border Patrol agents have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.
The Associated Press reports that "[t]he Senate early [today] approved Homeland Security funds to pay Transportation Security Administration agents and most other agencies, but not the immigration enforcement operations at the heart of the budget impasse that has jammed airports, disrupted travel and imposed financial hardship on workers.
On April 9, 2026, ASU Law's Civil Rights, Migration, and Workplace Law Initiative, along with ASU's School of Transborder Studies and the Hispanic Research Center, will host a national inter-disciplinary conference "Immigration Enforcement, Resistance and Narratives Through the Lens of Mixed-Status Families," exploring the
Dignity Not Detention: How States Can Prohibit Immigration Detention Contracts And Why They Should by Sophia Genovese Abstract Immigration detention enables mass deportations. Without the ability to hold people in a centralized location, the government is incapable of deporting people en masse. Therefore, a strategy to combat mass deportations is
The Los Angeles Dodgers, with its international roster of stars, open their season tonight. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the starting pitcher for the Dodgers. Another international superstar, Shohei Ohtani, is the lead-off hitter (and designated hitter). With all the Japanese players in Major League Baseball, baseball is huge in Japan.