The Urban Institute has released updates to its Children of Immigrants project provide data at the national, state, and metropolitan levels on the 1 in 4 children in the US who have one or more immigrant parents or are immigrants themselves. Read the state fact sheets.
Remember Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl? Here is an NFL encore. "On Monday night, before the ESPN Monday Night Football game at Chicago’s Soldier Field between the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles, a mariachi band called The Mariachi Herencia de México performed the national anthem, clad in
Forum Shopping and Judge Shopping: An Empirical Analysis of Immigration Policy Cases by Daniel M. Klerman and Alex Klerman Abstract This article measures the extent of forum and judge shopping in cases challenging the legality of immigration policies during the Biden and Trump administrations. The evidence shows that both liberal
Lisa Mascaro and Ali Swenson for the Associated Press reports that "[t]he Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a blatant misuse of taxpayer dollars that likely
From NPR: "Though [Mahmoud] Khalil had no criminal record and had never been charged with a crime, Secretary of State Marco Rubio nevertheless declared that he should be deported, invoking a provision that had rarely been used against a permanent resident in this way. After his arrest, Khalil was
Kit Johnson blogged yesterday about California's latest efforts to resist the Trump administration's zealous immigration enforcement measures. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a series of bills to resist federal immigration enforcement in the state, aimed at increasing oversight of detention centers and curbing ICE agents’ aggressive
The publisher's pitch: Based on a true story, Taxi Dancer is a gripping historical novel by Marivi Soliven that illuminates the hidden world of Depression-era Filipino taxi dance halls, weaving a forbidden interracial romance with a high-stakes murder mystery to explore race, desire, survival, and the Filipino American
As previously posted, Republican Representative Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) warned President Trump in a campaign ad that some of his immigration enforcement operations have "gone too far" and warns him that Hispanic voters who voted for him in 2024 "feel betrayed." The Empire strikes back. "
How is this justice? From CNN: "Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation." I like to think my kids are sharp but I cannot imagine them representing
Lindsay Whitehurst for the Associated Press reports that the Supreme Court today "let President Donald Trump’s administration continue swiftly deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal." Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would have denied the
Today, California's Governor Newsom signed into law 21 different bills regarding immigration enforcement--what his office calls a "package of legislation to protect California communities and strengthen civil rights and public safety by addressing immigration detention, enforcement transparency, civil rights, state facilities, public records, family services and oversight
The official "X" account for the Department of Homeland Security made a tasteless tweet yesterday. Someone reported a "Huge migrant caravan headed towards the US southern borden." And DHS responded: "Our time has come," adding a video compilation featuring the former Philadelphia Eagles defenseman