In Why ICE’s body camera policies make the videos unlikely to improve accountability and transparency for The Conversation, Stephanie Lessing cautions that the proposal to require Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to wear body cameras may not be the silver bullet. "For body cameras to function as
A federal class action lawsuit alleges federal agents are unconstitutionally retaliating against observers recording immigration enforcement. Protect Democracy and two law firms filed the suit, alleging that federal agents are gathering information about observers, labeling them as “domestic terrorists”, and telling them they would be added to a “watchlist.” After
President Donald J. Trump will take center stage tonight to address a joint session of Congress for the first State of the Union address of his second term in office. The President is expected to start speaking at 9 p.m. ET. Here's what NPR suggests you need
Is it news when it is revealed that Trump administration officials are stretching the truth? Here is the latest. Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem completely made up a wild story about deporting a cannibal, as first reported in The Intercept. Speaking to Fox News’s Jesse Watters in June,
What the "Good Moral Character" Test Reveals About Eugenics in Immigration Law by Tania N. Valdez, 105 Boston U. L. Rev. 1491 (2025). Abstract This Essay explores how disability factors into immigration and citizenship law by focusing on three naturalization cases that reveal aspects of the “good moral
France named Ali Akbar, a 73-year-old Pakistani immigrant who has sold papers on the Left Bank of Paris for decades, a knight in the National Order of Merit, one of France's highest honors. According to NPR, "[f]or more than 50 years, the Pakistani-born newspaper hawker has
With a thrilling overtime win for the gold medal by the U.S. men's hockey team over Canada on the last day, the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina yesterday came to a close. Several Teams USA competitors carried an international past with them. "They speak different
A Guardian (UK) analysis of U.S. government records has found that 77% of the noncitizens placed in removal proceedings for the first time "in 2025 had no criminal conviction, exposing a stark gap between the Trump administration’s rhetoric and reality." President Donald Trump had proclaimed that
A poll conducted by The Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos released last week is getting press. According to the poll, "disapproval toward Trump on immigration reached a second-term high point." 58 percent of those polled said that they disapprove of his handling of immigration, while 40 percent
The Guardian printed a chilling story this weekend regarding Karen Newton, 65, a U.K. resident who was detained by US immigration authorities for nearly 6 weeks. Newton traveled to the U.S. for vacation. She and her husband visited various states and then sought to enter into Canada, but
Check out this 2025 article from Jennifer Chacón in the State Court Report: State Courthouses in the ICE Age. She opens with this: In late April, the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan made national news. Her arrest highlights both the Trump administration’s change in federal
Courthouse News reports that an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit in an opinion by Judge Susan Graber yesterday reversed a lower court decision declining to reconsider a case under an updated anti-trafficking law in a case brought by several Cambodian villagers forced to work in the Thai seafood