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...
Marielena Hincapié, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, Feb. 23, 2024 "The number of newly arriving immigrants who have come to New York to establish new homes in our communities and flee life-threatening danger in their countries of birth has captured the nation's...
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...
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....
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...
Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker, Jan. 29, 2024 "For five hundred thousand dollars (the amount has since risen to nine hundred thousand), foreign investors and their families became eligible for green cards, so long as that money succeeded in creating at least...
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...
Carine Hajjar, Boston Globe, Jan. 26, 2024 "[C]urrent policies at the border funnel migrants into a system where their long-term legal claim to "the American dream" is uncertain, and for many, unlikely. ... In the end, many migrants "will...
Karin Fischer, Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 24, 2024 "A pair of U.S. Supreme Court cases about whether commercial fishermen can be forced to pay the cost of federal monitors could have far-reaching implications for regulations affecting international...
Claire Fahy, New York Times, Jan. 22, 2024 "A Bronx lawyer and his son were arrested on Monday and charged with orchestrating a seven-year immigration scheme that defrauded hundreds of immigrants and caused some of them to be deported, federal prosecutors...
Tuesday, February 06, 2024, 2pm EST - REGISTER HERE "This webinar features a discussion of author Saket Soni’s The Great Escape , which tells the astonishing true story of a group of immigrants trapped in the largest human trafficking scheme in modern...
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’...
Maria Recio, Austin American-Statesman, Jan. 3, 2023 "The U.S. Constitution's supremacy clause states that federal laws, rules and regulations trump conflicting state laws, as was upheld in a 2010 Supreme Court case on illegal immigration in Arizona...
Ellen M. Gilmer, Bloomberg, Dec. 22, 2023 "US border and immigration policies face make-or-break decisions in federal courts in 2024, with the fate of key executive powers, status for “Dreamers,” and state authority on the docket. Judges have...