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ImmigrationProf Blog
9h ago
The first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor died earlier this week. Justice O'Connor wrote the decision in Landon v. Plasencia, a major immigration decision that had some dramatic impacts on removal procedures. The case addressed ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
9h ago
While many politicians are clamoring for more border enforcement, J.D. Tuccille for Reason offers a very different approach because, in his view, "the federal government makes the problem worse by putting legal immigration out of reach for most so that ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
9h ago
These are the Immigration Section's events at the upcoming AALS conference in Washington DC (Jan. 3-6). We hope to see many of you there! Thursday, Jan. 4 , 3-4pm: "Immigrants Defending Democracy and Resisting Dictatorship" Panelists: Dina Haynes (New England ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
9h ago
Improving Lawyers & Lives: How Immigrant Justice Corps Built a Model for Quality Representation While Empowering Recent Law School and College Graduates and the Immigrant Communities Whom They Serve by Jojo Annobil & Elizabeth Gibson, Fordham Law Review (2023) Abstract ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
3d ago
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and California Governor Gavin Newsom sparred (and here) in a debate of sorts last night. Among other topics, crime, immigration, and comparative out-migration from Florida and California were topics of discussion. California and Florida have ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
3d ago
Today was my last class of the semester. In addition to answer questions about the format of the upcoming exam, and clarifying points of substantive doctrine, we watched the documentary Safe? from immprof Lynn Marcus (Arizona). Kevin told y'all about ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
4d ago
I have previously blogged about "pop up" detention camps near the border with Mexico in Southern California. Controversy over the detention continues. According to the Los Angeles Times, Jacumba Hot Springs, about halfway between San Diego and Calexico, has become ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
4d ago
A new report from Mexico's University of the Americas Puebla says that climate disasters displaced more than 1 million people from the Caribbean and Latin America in 2021 alone, reports Russell Contreras of Axios. The report suggests that the World Bank might ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
4d ago
As Ingrid Eagly blogged yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a cancellation of removal case yesterday. Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson for Bloomberg thinks that the noncitizen will win on the judicial review issue: "Immigrants seeking another shot to prove ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
4d ago
The American Immigration Council and the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic of the James H. Binger Center for New Americans, University of Minnesota Law School have released a new practice advisory, Common Tools of Statutory Construction for Criminal Removal Grounds. The ..read more