Greg Varner, GW Today, Mar. 21, 2024 "Comedies often end with a wedding, and there’s a marriage in this story, but it’s not a comedy. This is an immigration story, and it ends in a naturalization ceremony, with some painful, dramatic scenes along...
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Paul Krugman, New York Times, Mar. 19, 2024 "[There is] growing evidence that immigration is helping the U.S. economy — indeed, that it may be a major reason for our surprising economic success. ... But are immigrants taking jobs away from native-born...
Eric Cortellessa, Time Magazine, Feb. 29, 2024 "Legal experts say that Biden can’t unilaterally override immigration law without legislation. The current federal statute requires the U.S. government to grant asylum to persons who have been forcibly...
Heidi Altman, NIJC, Feb. 21, 2024 "For too long, extremist lawmakers and commentators have shaped the immigration debate through misinformation and rhetoric that demonizes people seeking safety and a better life. The result is a punitive, enforcement-oriented...
Welcome the Wretched, by Prof. César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández What do 21 Savage (Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph) and Justin Bieber have in common? At least two things: they are successful pop singers and they are not U.S. citizens...
David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 1, 2024 "For more than a century, immigration and border enforcement have been seen as falling exclusively under federal control, and when states tried to exert a greater role, courts shut them down. Texas is now...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box have thoughts: "The Supreme Court on January 17, 2024 heard arguments in two cases – R elentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo – that may determine whether courts will...
Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, Jan. 28, 2024 "As negotiations faltered Friday, Biden released a statement saying a bipartisan group of senators have been working around the clock over the past two months to address the border crisis and that the deal being...
MPI Policy Beat, Jan. 19, 2024 "This article reviews the major immigration actions during the Biden administration’s first three years, focusing on border enforcement, interior enforcement and impacts on U.S. cities, humanitarian protection, the immigration...
According to the Immigration Policy Tracking Project, as of Dec. 25, 2023 , of the 1,027 Trump actions, 684 are fully in effect, 57 are partially in effect, and 294 are not in effect. 333 were acted upon by the Biden administration, 108 were acted on by the courts...
Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact, Jan. 17, 2024 "As members from separate branches of government point fingers at one another, the persistent situation at the border leaves voters with plenty of questions. "What branch of government is ‘really’...
"The increased arrivals at the U.S. southern border, and the dysfunction of an immigration system that has not been reformed by Congress for more than 30 years, have fueled arguments that the United States should turn away immigrants at the border. While newly...
Rachel Konieczny, Maryland Daily Record, January 12, 2024 "With the backlog of immigration cases in U.S. immigration court recently exceeding 3 million , immigration practitioners and professors hope to expand access to legal services for noncitizens. One...
Veteran immigration attorney and policy advisor to insiders of both parties, Charles Foster keeps his cool responding to some ill-informed questions and comments during this 45-minute C-SPAN segment from Jan. 6, 2024 .