an Gooding, Newsweek, Sept. 30, 2024 "Experts and lawmakers are skeptical of his ability to do such a thing, just as they have been of the mass deportation promise laid out in the GOP's 2024...
Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, Sept. 29, 2024 "At the 2013 event, the brothers also touched on a topic they’ve discussed less frequently in public: their immigration status during the company’s...
Aaron Martinez, El Paso Times, Sept. 26, 2024 " Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center is the second El Paso immigration nonprofit to sue Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , accusing him of violating...
CILP, Sept. 2024 You’ve heard of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but what about immigration nerds in cars getting coffee?? As we’ve carpooled with our colleagues to the UCLA Law School...
Matt Dougherty, Ithaca.com, Sept. 24, 2024 "Cornell University has become the first university to suspend a student for pro-Palestinian organizing this semester, putting them at risk of deportation...
"In the last century, hundreds of thousands of children have migrated alone to the United States. Others migrated with adults but became separated after their arrival. The reasons for their migration vary, but in many cases, war, poverty, and violence compel these children to seek refuge within our nation’s borders, often without their families. Throughout their journey on both sides of the border, these children are highly vulnerable to trafficking, abuse, and exploitation. In the United States, many are eventually apprehended, classified as an “unaccompanied alien child,” and prosecuted for violating immigration laws. Their prosecution leads the children into a confusing and complex legal labyrinth that even most lawyers do not understand. Alone and confused, most of the children who enter the system are ordered to return to the brutal conditions that compelled their migration in the first place, even though as many as forty percent of these children could have qualified for an exemption to deportation. This essay argues that it is time to give voice to all unaccompanied children caught in the labyrinth of America’s immigration system, regardless of their national origin and the nature of the legal proceeding. Meaningful legislative reform must be accomplished to mandate the appointment of both government-funded legal counsel and personal representatives to represent unaccompanied children, most urgently those in removal proceedings, so that their stories can be told and their voices can be heard." - Prof. W. Warren H. Binford, Willamette Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution, Forthcoming.