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Covers immigration and how to get about the procedure done. Law professors from across the United States discuss the intersection of race and law.
ImmigrationProf Blog
3h ago
Oklahoma has been really interested in immigration this legislative session. (No one will admit it, but this state loves to copy Texas.) I already wrote about one bill to criminalize migration (I'm told this is dead) and one to regulate ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
3h ago
2024 Conference: Conrad E. Wright Research Conference on Citizenship The Conrad E. Wright Conference series was endowed by The Honorable Levin H. Campbell in honor of Conrad Edick Wright, former Director of Research and Sibley Editor. July 11-13, 2024 About ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
17h ago
Look for a new Trump ad hammering President Biden on immigration. Check it out here. KJ ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
1d ago
The University of California says it will no longer have its valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, speak at commencement, citing safety concerns. Some student groups, such as the organization Trojans for Israel, have criticized Tabassum's social media content about the Israel-Gaza war ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
1d ago
The drama continues. NPR reports that roughly two months after voting to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, House Republicans delivered the charges to the Senate yesterday to start a trial. The Senate is not expected to convict or remove ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
1d ago
Christine Kinealy for The Conversation considers the ferment over immigration in Ireland. Simon Harris was confirmed as “taoiseach,” or prime minister, on April 9, 2024, following the surprise resignation of his predecessor, Leo Varadkar. Local, national and presidential elections are ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
2d ago
One of my students pointed me to the following episode of This American Life: The Cavalry Is Not Coming (When you realize that help is not on the way, what do you do next?). Act 2 of the episode (32 ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
3d ago
Legal Phantoms: Executive Action and the Haunting Failures of Immigration Law by Jennifer M. Chacon, Susan Bibler Coutin, and Stephen Lee (Stanford University Press, 2024) The publisher's description of the book: "The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
3d ago
This may seem odd given our last post but Texas Public Radio reports that Texas is among top states whose residents are signing up to sponsor refugees: Minnesota, Washington, California and Ohio lead the way in numbers of residents signing ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
4d ago
CNN reports on the Iowa legislature's passage of a bill that would allow local police to arrest undocumented immigrants and give state judges the power to order deportations. The Iowa governor signed it. The law is scheduled to go into ..read more