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...
Ava Sasani, The Guardian, Nov. 17, 2023
"Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, is expected to sign two rightwing immigration bills, setting off a likely constitutional battle over a new law that allows state and local police to arrest anyone suspected of crossing the Texas-Mexico border without documentation. SB4, one of the harshest anti-immigration laws in US history, makes it a state crime to cross into Texas from another country without papers. ... Both anti-immigration laws have been widely criticized by Texas Democrats, but SB4 has also drawn condemnation from bipartisan legal groups and the Mexican government. A group of more than two dozen former immigration judges signed a statement this week calling SB 4 unconstitutional. The signatories included judges who had been appointed by both Republican and Democratic administrations. ... “Part of the reason for passing this law is to send a message to the Biden administration that Texas is going to go as far as it dares, and they don’t care whether they lose in court, they’re making a political statement,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law professor at Cornell University. Yale-Loehr said a legal challenge against SB4 would probably succeed, but court battles can take several years. In the meantime, Texas Republicans hope the threat of deportation will discourage migrants from crossing the southern border."