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Daniel M. Kowalski
8 days ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Over 75 Organizations Urge Biden Administration to Implement Protection Measures for CBP One Users, Changes to CBP One, and Restore Asylum
Human Rights Watch, Sept. 18, 2024 "Dear President Biden, Secretary Mayorkas and Secretary Blinken, We, the undersigned human rights, humanitarian, civil society , and faith-based organizations, are writing to you in response to the recent announcement...
Daniel M. Kowalski
20 days ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
80+ Organizations Express Objection to Border Act of 2024
Refugees International, Sept. 5, 2024 "United We Dream and the undersigned 83 national, international, state and local organizations write to express our unwavering objection to the Border Act of 2024 (S.4361) . Recently, some have touted this...
Daniel M. Kowalski
20 days ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Mike Wilson: From Green Beret to Border Activist
Todd Miller, The Border Chronicle, Sept. 5, 2024 "How does one go from a U.S. Special Forces Green Beret in El Salvador to doing humanitarian aid work on the border? This is where Tohono O’odham Mike Wilson begins this podcast conversation...
Daniel M. Kowalski
24 days ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Editor's Corner: More Border Musings
Much is being made about the drop in numbers of unauthorized crossings, and asylum requests, at the southern border. Whether the drop is due to recent Biden policy moves, or to other factors, is an open question. The purpose of this post is to explain...
Daniel M. Kowalski
28 days ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Editor's Corner: A Word About the Border
I have some thoughts for the Harris/Walz team, the Supreme Court, Congress, DHS, DOL, and DOJ regarding the border. Please consider subscribing to my free Substack . Comments welcome via Substack, Threads, X or LinkedIn. Thank you. Register! Vote...
Daniel M. Kowalski
1 month ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The Cost of Immigration Enforcement and Border Security
AIC, Aug. 14, 2024 "Since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003, the federal government has spent an estimated $409 billion on the agencies that carry out immigration enforcement, and tens of billions more on border...
Daniel M. Kowalski
1 month ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
A Visionary in the Borderlands
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Aug. 20, 2024 "While he lived, Eduardo "Eddie" Canales saved countless lives in the remote South Texas ranchlands. A statewide center in Texas to identify missing migrants would be a fitting legacy...
Daniel M. Kowalski
1 month ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The ‘Unsettling,’ Nearly Normalized Surveillance Tech Monitoring the U.S.-Mexico Border
Monique O. Madan, The Markup, Aug. 10, 2024 "The thing that can be unsettling is that there are so many ways that you are probably being watched. You’re aware that you’re being watched, but you can’t see it with your eyes. But...
Daniel M. Kowalski
2 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The Mighty River
My friend Morgan Smith wrote this note about the Rio Grande in July 2024. Learn more about Morgan here , here and here .
Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Cruel Indifference: Family Separation at the U.S.-Mexico Border Before and After Zero Tolerance
Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic, Center for Immigration Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law, June 2024 "This white paper addresses two misconceptions. The first is that family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border began under the administration...
Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Expert: "A presidential proclamation isn't going to stop" migration
Newsweek, June 12, 2024 "There is only so much any president can do to manage border flows," Stephen Yale-Loehr , professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York, told Newsweek. "People flee their homes...
Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
AILA Press Briefing Held June 6, 2024 Regarding Implementation of Border IFR
AILA, June 6, 2024 - AILA Doc. No. 24060612 "Press Briefing Held June 6, 2024, Regarding Implementation of Border IFR" Audio here . Transcript here .
Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Expert: Exceptions in Biden's Asylum Proclamation Could Make Litigation a "Close Call"
Britain Eakin, Law360, June 5, 2024 "The new border regime that President Joe Biden rolled out this week relies on legal provisions that courts largely barred the Trump administration from using to restrict entry, but exceptions in Biden's...
Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Expert: Biden's Border Proclamation "A Political Statement"
Nicole Narea, Vox, June 4, 2024 "President Joe Biden issued a new proclamation on Tuesday that bars asylum seekers who cross the border without permission from applying for protections in the US when migrant crossings exceed a daily average of...
Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Fact Sheet: Presidential Proclamation to Suspend and Limit Entry and Joint DHS-DOJ Interim Final Rule to Restrict Asylum During High Encounters at the Southern Border
DHS, June 4, 2024 "...President Biden issued a Presidential Proclamation to temporarily suspend the entry of noncitizens across the southern border. The Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General also jointly issued an interim final...
Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Presidential Proclamation on Securing the Border; Fact Sheet
White House, June 4, 2024 Proclamation Fact Sheet
Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Border Vigilantes Are Blurring The Lines Of Law Enforcement
FRANCESCA D’ANNUNZIO and AVERY SCHMITZ, Texas Observer, MAY 23, 2024 "All along the border, a monthslong investigation by the Observer and Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found, organized vigilante groups are filming themselves...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
TX Gov. Abbott's Operation Lone Star: $11 Billion Dollar Failure
ACLU of Texas, May 22, 2024 "The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and ACLU Analytics published a report today that reveals Governor Greg Abbott’s state immigration enforcement program, Operation Lone Star (OLS), has failed its mission...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
‘The Case for Open Borders’: A Book Review from the Banks of the Rio Grande
Todd Miller, The Border Chronicle, May 16, 2024 "John Washington’s new book attempts to break open the political discourse on borders, showing us that another world is possible."
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
America’s Misunderstood Border Crisis, in 8 Charts
Nicole Narea, Vox, May 12, 2024 "For all the attention on the border, the root causes of migration and the most promising solutions to the US’s broken immigration system are often overlooked."
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Expert: Courts Could Block Trump's Border Plans
Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 30, 2024 "Former President Donald Trump says he will compel local police to enforce federal immigration law if he’s reelected, which would put him in direct conflict with California laws passed...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
“We Couldn’t Wait” - Digital Metering at the US-Mexico Border
HRW, May 1, 2024 "The administrations of US President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador are forcing thousands of people seeking asylum in the US to wait for months in Mexico, exposing them to danger, Human...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The Case for Open Borders: A Podcast with John Washington
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Apr. 30, 2024 "A defining issue of this century will be people on the move and where they settle. Wealthier countries like the U.S. are responding by walling themselves off from the rest of the world and...
Daniel M. Kowalski
5 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Title 42 Postmortem: U.S. Pandemic-Era Expulsions Policy Did Not Shut Down the Border
Muzaffar Chishti, Kathleen Bush-Joseph, and Julian Montalvo, MPI, Apr. 25, 2024 "This article provides an overview of the scale, impact, and effectiveness of Title 42, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the order’s lifting in May 2023....
Daniel M. Kowalski
5 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Groups Release Border Management Proposal
National Immigration Forum, Apr. 24, 2024 "Today, center-right advocacy organizations hosted a press conference unveiling a border framework that prioritizes security, order and humanity at the southern border. A recording of the call is available...
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