Trump Closes San Francisco’s Immigration Court for Good
San Francisco’s immigration court stopped hearing cases last week. "Once one of the busiest courts in the country, the closure of the 100 Montgomery Street courthouse comes after more than a year of firings and retirements have whittled down its bench and worsened a massive case backlog."
More than 20,000 of the 31,100 children who reached Europe along mixed migration routes last year arrived without a parent or guardian, new UN data show. International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General Amy Pope urged closer cooperation between European States and countries along the routes to protect
Administrative Procedural Discretion by Bijal Shah, Cornell Law Review forthcoming Abstract The conservative Supreme Court has established maximum presidential control over formal administrative adjudication, despite the resulting impact on independence and expertise in adjudicatory process. Concurrently, a progressive public law perspective advocates for agencies to be released from procedure to
The Trump administration has challenged a number of state laws allowing undocumented residents to pay in-state tuition at public universities and colleges. Yesterday, a federal court upheld Virginia's law. Granting summary judgment for Virginia, "Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Payne found both the domicile pathway and
A new report from the ACLU and AFL-CIO outlines how mass deportations are damaging the economy. A broader path to citizenship would create jobs and raise wages. The report, "Citizenship and the Affordability Agenda: A Path to Better Jobs, Higher Wages, and Prosperity for All,” highlights how the Trump