Many people are still talking about the oral arguments last week in the birthright citizenship case of Trump v. Barbara. SCOTUS blog has great coverage and analysis of the case, with lots of great analysis by Supreme Court experts and law professors, including Akhil and Vik Amar and César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
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Forum Shopping and Judge Shopping: An Empirical Analysis of Immigration Policy Cases by Daniel M. Klerman & Alex Klerman, forthcoming, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) This article measures the extent of forum and judge shopping in cases challenging the legality of immigration policies during the Biden and Trump
TRAC Immigration (Too Few Immigration Attorneys; Where You Live Impacts Representation) reports that "The latest available court data show that in August 2026 only one in four (24%) immigrants, including unaccompanied children had an attorney to assist them in Immigration Court cases when a removal order was issued. While
This episode of the podcast revisits birthright citizenship, both the Supreme Court’s opinion and Trump v. Barbara, and the more recent executive orders where the Trump Administration, once again, tries to take a whack at birthright citizenship. T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Amanda Frost, and Hiroshi Motomura
The United States isn't the only nation looking to restrict legal migration. Australia is also looking to tighten its immigration pipeline, the BBC reports. Key changes include: * Foreign students (other than Phd students) will no longer be able to bring their families within them while studying in Australia.