June 07, 2024

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 .

June 06, 2024

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 policy could offer insulation from adverse rulings this time. ... That could make the case "a close call if it goes to the Supreme Court," said Cornell Law School...

June 05, 2024

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 2,500 in a week. It is arguably the most restrictive measure Biden has taken yet on the US-Mexico border. ... Courts haven’t fully articulated the limits on the president’s...

June 05, 2024

Oh, The Irony

Biden proclaims June 2024 as National Immigrant Heritage Month

June 04, 2024

Expert: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Not Happening Soon

Aline Barros, VOA, June 3, 2024 "Despite years of debate and numerous proposals, the United States has accomplished next to nothing on immigration reform. In recent years, attempts to modernize U.S. immigration law have been made through a series of legislative efforts; none has achieved a significant breakthrough. “We are nowhere and we’re not getting anywhere,” according to the Brookings Institution’s...

June 04, 2024

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 rule that, consistent with the Proclamation, generally restricts asylum eligibility for those who irregularly enter across the southern border – including the Southwest...

June 04, 2024

Presidential Proclamation on Securing the Border; Fact Sheet

White House, June 4, 2024 Proclamation Fact Sheet

June 03, 2024

AILA Policy Brief: Presidential Authority to Block or Expel Migrants

AILA Doc. No. 24060300, June 3, 2024 "President Biden is considering restricting the number of migrants who can enter the United States and barring asylum seekers for extended periods. AILA would oppose this policy if it prevents asylum seekers from receiving fair and accurate consideration of their requests for asylum. ... While the legality of the new policy depends on its details, at least one federal court...

June 03, 2024

Experts: Migrant Influx Fuels Push For Right To Immigration Counsel

Marco Poggio, Law360, May 31, 2024 "What Judge Dana Leigh Marks saw countless times from her bench on the San Francisco Immigration Court were David-and-Goliath-type fights. Noncitizens, many of them having fled poverty in their home countries and having only modest educations, compete against U.S. government lawyers seeking to have them deported. "Most people are very nervous, if not terrified," she...

May 31, 2024

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 conducting patrols, taking photos of themselves alongside law enforcement, and sharing footage online to solicit donations, promote their work, and recruit new members...

May 31, 2024

Immigration and America's Workforce Shortage

Nebraska Chamber Foundation, Jan. 2024 "Workforce is the top competitive issue facing business in America. First, there is a lack of workers with specific skills that has created severe shortages in critical occupations. Across the country, states and communities are struggling to staff positions such as teachers, mechanics, nurses, police officers, childcare workers, brick masons, carpenters, and engineers. Second...

May 28, 2024

DOJ, DOL Settle "Whites Only" Hiring Case For...Under $40K?

DOJ, May 23, 2024 "The Justice Department and the Department of Labor announced today separate agreements with Arthur Grand Technologies Inc. ( Arthur Grand ), an information technology services firm based in Virginia. The Justice Department’s agreement [$7,500] resolves the department’s determination that Arthur Grand violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by posting a discriminatory job...

May 27, 2024

Perchance to DREAM...Now in Paperback!

You have the hardcover and/or the ebook. (I have both.) Now buy the paperback! Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA, by Michael A. Olivas Foreword by Bill Richardson Published by: NYU Press

May 27, 2024

Who Are the Targets of Trump’s Deportation Army If He Gets Reelected?

Cyrus D. Mehta, May 27, 2024 "If Trump gets reelected, he has hinted that his administration will create a deportation force that would deport 15 million undocumented immigrants. Radley Balko’s newsletter on Substack, Trump’s Deportation Army , provides chilling details on how this deportation would be executed, which would be an unmitigated disaster for families, the US economy and the standing of...

May 27, 2024

Six UK Rockers Walked Into The American Embassy in London

Rock guitarist extraordinaire Chris Buck details, to the penny , what it costs to get visas for the band ( Cardinal Black ) to tour in the USA .

May 23, 2024

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 . The $11.2 billion program was created in 2021 to prevent migrants from allegedly bringing drugs and crime into Texas from across the border. But the state’s...

May 23, 2024

Raiding the Genome: How the United States Government Is Abusing Its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future Policing

Georgetown Law, May 21, 2024 "The U.S. government has a message to immigrant communities: we’re watching you, at the genetic level. A new report by the Center on Privacy & Technology, Raiding the Genome: How the United States Government Is Abusing Its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future Policing, is the first in-depth analysis of the drastic expansion, after a DOJ rule change in 2020, of a...

May 22, 2024

Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against the State of Oklahoma Regarding Unconstitutional State Immigration Law

DOJ, May 21, 2024 "The Justice Department today filed suit against the State of Oklahoma to challenge House Bill 4156 (HB 4156) under the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause and Foreign Commerce Clause. The Constitution assigns the federal government the authority to regulate immigration and manage our international borders. Pursuant to this authority, Congress has established a comprehensive immigration...

May 22, 2024

Court Blocks Florida Immigration Law (SB 1718)

Farmworker Assoc. of Fla. v. Moody "[W]e remain bound by the pronouncements of our Circuit, which has held that the “unlawful transport and movement of aliens” is a fully preempted field. Ga. Latino, 691 F.3d at 1264 ... Bound by Eleventh Circuit precedent, we hold that the Plaintiffs are likely to prevail on their claim that Section 10 of SB 1718 is preempted by federal law—and that they have...

May 22, 2024

Cornell Law Professors Receive $1.5 Million Grant for DACA Legal Assistance Initiative

Christine Savino, Cornell Daily Sun, May 21, 2024 "Amid pressing calls for immigration justice from President Joe Biden , philanthropies and beyond, a pioneering solution is taking place in Ithaca. Prof. Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer , law, and Prof. Stephen Yale-Loehr , law, have secured a $1.5 million grant from Bay Area humanitarian foundation Crankstart to fund Path2Papers , an innovative non-profit designed to provide...

May 21, 2024

OK Immigration Law Faces Lawsuits

Jordan Gerard, The Oklahoman, May 21, 2024 "In a war of words and threats of litigation, Oklahoma's new anti-immigration law faces two potential lawsuits. The U.S. Department of Justice addressed a May 15 letter to Gov. Kevin Stitt and Attorney General Gentner Drummond saying the federal government intends to file a lawsuit to stop the enforcement unless Oklahoma agrees in advance not to take such action. The...

May 20, 2024

A Match Made in New York: Job Openings and Immigrants

Prof. Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, May 17, 2024 "New York has over 470,000 open jobs across all sectors. The health care industry is still reeling from the pandemic, when 20% of all health care workers left the field. The number of jobs available in that field is outpacing the number of people available to fill them. According to a report from the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Albany , there...

May 17, 2024

Two-Thirds of Court Asylum Applicants Found Legally Entitled to Remain

TRAC, May 17, 2024 "The latest Immigrant Court records show that over the past decade (FY 2014 to April 2024) Immigration Judges have adjudicated just over one million removal cases in which the immigrant filed an asylum application. Out of these 1,047,134 cases, Judges determined that 685,956 immigrants were legally entitled to remain in the United States because they merited asylum or another form of relief from...

May 17, 2024

‘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."

May 17, 2024

DHS, DOJ Hope to Speed Up Immigration Court Docket

DHS, May 16, 2024 "Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced a new Recent Arrivals (RA) Docket process to more expeditiously resolve immigration cases of certain noncitizen single adults who attempt to cross irregularly between ports of entry at the Southwest border. This effort will allow DHS and DOJ to more swiftly impose consequences, including removal...