The Public Policy Institute of California has released a report by Marisol Cuellar Mejia and Hans Johnson with lots of information about immigrants in California. Some key points: California is home to 10.9 million immigrants. It has the highest share of immigrants of any state—more than double the
What Drives Anti-Migrant Vigilantes By Matthijs Gardenier In recent years, vigilante groups opposed to immigration have formed to conduct patrols, stage parades, and even commit violence against asylum seekers and other migrants in Europe, North America, and other regions. Vigilantes often claim that the government has been soft on irregular
NPR: In an era when Americans on either side of the political divide are wary of talking to one another and increasingly live in separate information eco-systems, the best thing a national reporter can do is get in the car and drive. That is what I did not long after
News agencies are reporting that federal immigration agents in Minneapolis will begin wearing body cameras, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said yesterday. "Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in Minneapolis," Noem said in a post on X. "As funding
Will the federal government shutdown continue? Bloomberg reports that President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives to accept a deal he struck with Democrats to end the government shutdown. "Trump implored House Republicans in a social media post to pass the spending measure
UConn Law School is hiring for the William R. Davis Clinical Teaching Fellowship. The fellow will co-teach and supervise students in UConn’s Asylum Clinic, starting in summer 2026. The position announcement can be found here. Several prior Davis Fellows have gone on to teaching positions at various law schools.
After 13 seasons in the NFL, former NFL star and Chicago Bear, Charles Tillman joined the FBI, enrolling in the bureau's training program in Quantico, Virginia in 2018. "However, Tillman, 44, has now revealed that his discomfort with the Trump administration's immigration policies and the
Check out this 60 Minutes clip. Lawmakers, including Republican Senator Rand Paul, are calling for an independent investigation into immigration enforcement operations by the Trump administration.
This report (Profiting Off Pain: Privatized Detention, Mass Surveillance and the Drive for Immigrant Prosecutions), by the American University Washington College of Law - Immigrant Justice Clinic, and the National Immigration Project, argues that prosecutions under Sections 1325 and 1326 both enable and are reinforced by the privatization of immigration
Luke William Hunt, a policing scholar and former FBI special agent, for the Conversation ("I’m a former FBI agent who studies policing, and here’s how federal agents in Minneapolis are undermining basic law enforcement principles") lays out the established principles of policing and constitutional law that
WIRED magazine has a terrific new article on How to Film ICE. The article begins with caution, quoting the cofounder of the Freedom of Press Foundation Trevor Timm, who states: "Unfortunately, there is no way to film ‘safely’ right now—I think everybody may be taking a risk because
Big news at the Grammys last night! Bad Bunny used his Grammy acceptance speech to denounce U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say ICE out," the Puerto Rican artist said as he accepted a Grammy Award for