Sanctuary Making: Immigrant Families Reshaping Geographies of Deportability by Carolina Valdivia (University of California Press 2026) Publisher's Abstract Immigration policy and enforcement practices in the United States now extend beyond the border to the country's interior, impacting the private lives of millions of undocumented and mixed-status
Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times Season 2, Episode 4: Rights in the Era of ICE Raids This episode reflects on immigration enforcement in the United States from the perspective of civil liberties, assessing the broader implications of contemporary enforcement practices for constitutional rights and the rule of law. Guest Speaker
The Racialized Retaliatory State: Weaponizing Immigration Law to Criminalize Dissent Criminalize Dissent by Karla McKanders, William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice, Volume 32 (2025-2026), Issue 1 Abstract Just days before his ICE arrest in February 2019,
Here is the opinion. Justice Kagan wrote for the Court. BREAKING: High Court Says GEO Group Can't Appeal Immunity Ruling By Madeline Lyskawa The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that GEO Group Inc. cannot immediately appeal a district court decision that found it does not derive sovereign
Ryan Schwank, a former ICE lawyer, said new recruits “cannot demonstrate a solid grasp of the tactics or the law required to perform their jobs” at a hearing. See The Hill, CBS News, hsgac.senate.gov.
From NPR: The Trump administration fired nearly 100 judges in 2025 as part of a larger push to reshape U.S. immigration courts. These firings, as well as resignations, shrunk the number of judges in the nation’s immigration courts by about a quarter in the last year, even when
California Senator Alex Padilla delivered the Democratic Spanish response to President Trump’s State of the Union Address. President Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address in U.S. history. NPR reports on the immigration discussion in the speech: "Trump . . . leaned into the issue of immigration . . . . Among
I stumbled across an interesting story from the National Catholic Reporter, reporting on the work of Cardinal Fabio Baggio, undersecretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. NCR identified Cardinal Baggio as the Vatican's "migration chief," a man "charged with overseeing the Vatican'
Chris Hardee on Just Security critically assesses a recent Wall Street Journal editorial titled “How the Deep State Thwarted ICE Administrative Warrants,” in which Department of Homeland Security General Counsel James “Jimmy” Percival outlined the administration’s legal case for why Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can enter homes without
Agency Capture in Immigration Law by Shalina Bhargava Ray, 78 SMU Law Review 1045 (2025) Abstract Debates over administrative law doctrine and practice have long occurred in the shadow of agency capture, a phenomenon by which private interests co-opt an agency’s public mission. Scholars posit that capture often operates
Birthright citizenship: under the flag by Akhil and Vikram Amar & Samarth Desai has been posted on SCOTUSBlog. The column is the first in a series on birthright citizenship and Trump v. Barbara, the case in which the Supreme Court will determine the legality of President Donald Trump’s order
Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life by Gabrielle Oliveira (Stanford University Press, 2025) Publisher's Description Who gets to live a life with dignity? Each day, families around the world make the difficult decision to leave their homes in search