My friend Morgan Smith wrote this note about the Rio Grande in July 2024. Learn more about Morgan here , here and here .
J.A.M. v. USA "The Court holds that Oscar is entitled to a much lower, but still notable award of $175,000 because he was somewhat older at the time of the incident, was detained for about half...
Path2Papers, July 17, 2024 " What are the policy changes the Biden administration is implementing regarding temporary work visas? On June 18, 2024, the Biden administration announced a policy...
DOJ, July 18, 2024 "The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs Inc. (Southwest Key), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied children who are...
Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters, July 18, 2024 "Even with all the industries where Californians went on strike during last year’s “hot labor summer,” some of the most active sites of...
Alyssa Aquino, Law360, Jan. 2, 2023
"The U.S. Supreme Court's anticipated ruling on President Joe Biden's deportation guidelines will intensify the White House's standoff with Republican states on immigration policy. The Ninth Circuit is also expected to rule on the constitutionality of the illegal reentry ban. ... Cornell Law School Professor Stephen Yale-Loehr told Law360 that reviews of BIA and immigration court decisions by federal courts are important in light of the complexity of deportation cases that typically have to be resolved under severe time constraints. "The immigration courts are certainly overwhelmed. They have 1.9 million cases pending and many of these cases involve important issues, like whether someone will be persecuted or killed if they go back home. It's like trying to decide death penalty cases in a traffic court setting," he said. ... As USCIS' processing times skyrocket, more noncitizens are taking their gripes with delayed visas and work permits to the courts. Cornell's Yale-Loehr said the courts have been pushing back against litigation challenging delayed immigration applications, refraining from second-guessing how USCIS divvies up its resources and being generally sympathetic to the practical realities of the backlog. But the amount of so-called mandamus cases being lobbed against USCIS is growing, and Yale-Loehr said he expects to see some friction from the sheer volume of it all. "I think we're going to see some tension there between people saying, 'I've got to sue because I've been waiting for two years,' and whether federal courts will go along with that or not," he said."