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ImmigrationProf Blog
4h ago
As of April 2024, TRAC at Syracuse University reveals that the immigration court system is experiencing unprecedented levels, with nearly 1.3 million immigrants filing asylum applications amidst a total backlog of 3.6 million cases. This year has seen a significant ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
5h ago
Guest blogger: Eric Asare, Masters in Migration Studies Program student, University of San Francisco: In the summer of 2018, after visiting some countries in Europe (Netherlands, Germany, Iceland, France, Italy), a friend suggested to me, he said “Eric, there is ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
5h ago
Photo courtesy of State of Iowa website Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of Iowa alleging that the state's new immigration law criminalizing "illegal reentry" is unconstitutional. In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
5h ago
Official White House Photo As Kit Johnson blogged late yesterday, the Biden administration yesterday proposed a rule that would allow border officers to more quickly reject asylum claims of migrants. NPR states that "[t]his change is modest in scope but ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
14h ago
Immigraft by immprofs Jayesh Rathod (American) & Anne Schaufele (UDC), 2024:2 Wisconsin Law Review 465, is an essay that explores the "unjust (often illegal) charging and retention of fees/payments by US immigration agencies." LOVE the title, my friends. Very, very ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
14h ago
MIAMI — On May 15, 2024, at 10 a.m., lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), ACLU and ACLU-FL will present arguments in support of their motion for partial summary judgment in Brown v. Ramsay, a federal lawsuit challenging ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
23h ago
Today, as previewed yesterday, DHS dropped a newly proposed rule in the Federal Register. Technically it is "unpublished" because it's officially set to "publish" on May 13. The title of this rule is Application of Certain Mandatory Bars in Fear ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
23h ago
Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit to Block Iowa's Unconstitutional SF2340 DES MOINES, May 9, 2024— Civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit today to block SF 2340, one of the worst, most far-reaching immigration laws ever passed in the state ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
23h ago
Guest blogger: Nurj Kaalim, Masters in Migration Studies student, University of San Francisco: One Wednesday evening, I sat in a circle in a room with classmates and professors, listening to an activist from Honduras’ Women’s Forum talk about courage, fear ..read more
ImmigrationProf Blog
1d ago
Our Immigration Article of the Day is Aligning United States Law with International Norms Would Remove Major Barriers to Protection in Gender Claims by Karen Musalo, International Journal of Refugee Law (2024). Here is the abstract: The protection of women ..read more