CILP, Mar. 13, 2024 "Please join the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at UCLA School of Law for a conversation about challenges at the border and real solutions grounded in welcoming new migration. This program will feature CILP Faculty Co-Director...
Megan Loe, Verify, Mar. 6, 2024 "THE QUESTION: Can a president completely shut down the border with an executive order? ... THE ANSWER: No, a president cannot completely shut down the border with an executive order. A full border closure would violate federal...
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...
ACLU, Feb. 29, 2024 "The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas today granted a motion for preliminary injunction to block Texas Senate Bill 4 (88-4), which would permit local and state law enforcement to arrest, detain, and remove...
Muzaffar Chishti, Julia Gelatt, MPI, Feb. 28, 2024 "This article reviews the recent escalation in federal-state tensions over immigration enforcement and the dispute around Shelby Park."
Priscilla Alvarez, MJ Lee, CNN, Feb. 21, 2024 "The White House is considering executive action to restrict migrants’ ability to seek asylum at the US-Mexico border if they crossed illegally – a maneuver reminiscent of controversial action from...
William Melhado, Texas Tribune, Feb. 20, 2024 "A Catholic nonprofit that operates several shelters in El Paso sued the Office of the Attorney General earlier this month to delay the release of records after the state agency demanded the immediate release...
Jerusalem Demsas, The Atlantic, Feb. 19, 2024 [free gift link!] "Sometimes the best way to understand why something is going wrong is to look at what’s going right. The asylum seekers from the border aren’t the only outsiders in town. Russia’s...
Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact, Feb. 2, 2024 "President Joe Biden says he has done everything under his authority to try to reduce illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border, and that he’ll be able to do more once Congress passes a new bill....
Essential reading for con law and border buffs: 1. Federalism at the Border : "...My goal in this post is to provide a bit of a broader overview of what the Supreme Court has said about the relative roles and responsibilities of state and federal governments...
Alan D. Bersin, Nate Bruggeman and Ben Rohrbaugh, MPI, Jan. 2024 "U.S.-Mexico border security has been a central policy matter and divisive political issue in the United States for decades. The U.S. border control enterprise has faced two distinctly different...
On Jan. 23, 2024 DHS sent this letter to TX A.G. Paxton. On Jan. 24, 2024 TX Gov. Abbott replied here . Federal courts expert Prof. Steve Vladeck posted this on Twitter (a.k.a. "X"): "Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution prevents...
DHS v. Texas, Jan. 22, 2024 "The application to vacate injunction presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is granted. The December 19, 2023 order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, case No. 23-50869, is vacated...
On Jan. 15, 2024 the U.S. Solicitor General filed this pleading at the Supreme Court. On Jan. 17, 2024 Texas A.G. Paxton replied, here and here .
USA v. Abbott "IT IS ORDERED that this cause shall be reheard by the court en banc with oral argument on a date hereafter to be fixed. The Clerk will specify a briefing schedule for the filing of supplemental briefs. Pursuant to 5th Circuit Rule 41.3, the...