Identical DHS and DOS media notes are here and here . Media coverage here , here , here , here , here and here . The intent is to curtail irregular migration through the Darién Gap . [I have...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, July 1, 2024 "The conservative majority Supreme Court recently issued two decisions that will have a major impact on the administrative state by transferring power...
CISOMB, June 2024 "I am pleased to present the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman’s (CIS Ombudsman) 2024 Annual Report to Congress. This Report, submitted annually...
Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, June 28, 2024 "Chevron deference has given the Department of Homeland Security and its component agencies broad latitude. For example, under Chevron , decisions made by...
Prof. Nancy Morawetz said this on today's ImmigrationProf Blog : "In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’ decision in Loper Bright , you might think that everyone would agree that courts...
"We write as law professors with particular expertise in the interaction of executive action and immigration law to clarify that there is no legal requirement that the executive branch limit deferred action or any other exercise of prosecutorial discretion to individuals whose dependents are lawfully present in the United States. Indeed, no legal principle requires that beneficiaries have any dependents at all, as DACA itself and the other examples provided in this letter illustrate. In this letter, we take no position on which individuals the Administration should include in any future prosecutorial discretion program. We do, however, seek to make clear that any conditions for a familial status, such as a requirement that an individual have a dependent with lawful immigration status – and more generally any other criteria for deferred action or other exercises of prosecutorial discretion – are policy choices, not legal constraints." - Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Stephen H. Legomsky, Hiroshi Motomura, Michael A. Olivas, Nov. 3, 2014.