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Roger Cohen, New York Times, May 10, 2019 "... Pablo told me about the hunger and fear on the weeklong road to the border. Meager rice and beans offered once a day. Being herded this way and that by coyotes — the smugglers he’d paid...

Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 92 / Monday, May 13, 2019 "... I have determined to extend the suspension and limitation, as set forth below, on entry into the United States through the southern border established by Proclamation 9822 and extended...

On May 7, 2019 a motions panel of the Ninth Circuit granted a stay pending appeal of the preliminary injunction that had blocked the 'return to Mexico' policy under the new DHS Migrant Protection Protocols for southern border asylum claimants...

Dara Lind, Vox, May 2, 2019 "The first time that one immigration officer interviewed an asylum seeker under new Trump administration protocols, the officer went back to their hotel room, turned up the shower as hot as it would go, and tried to...

White House, Apr. 29, 2019 "Presidential Memorandum on Additional Measures to Enhance Border Security and Restore Integrity to Our Immigration System April 29, 2019 MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT...

Gonzalez Ruano v. Barr "In September 2016, members of a Mexican drug cartel kidnapped, tortured, and threatened to kill petitioner Mauricio Gonzalez Ruano, who was living with his family in the Mexican state of Jalisco. ... We find that the record...

CLINIC, Apr. 24, 2019 " ... [M]etering at the border continues and has resulted in thousands of individuals seeking asylum under U.S. law (“U.S. asylum seekers”) stranded on the Mexican side of the border. Practitioners should therefore...

TRAC, Apr. 23, 2019 "... It appears that the government itself does not actually know what happens to those it arrests at the border. It admits it lacks the ability to reliably follow cases when they pass from one agency of DHS to another - such...

Paul W. Schmidt, Apr. 22, 2019 In re Diaz-Rivas v. U.S. Att’y Gen., 11th Cir., 04-18-19, unpublished , Jordan, Circuit Judge, concurring and dissenting. "In truth, this well-documented family-based persecution case should have been granted...

Sophia Genovese, Apr. 23, 2019 "The Attorney General cannot selectively choose when to apply the rule of law. Yet when it comes to immigrants, the government feels emboldened to ignore the constitutional protections that are afforded to immigrants...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Apr. 21, 2019 “K.H., a Guatemalan native and citizen, was kidnapped, beaten, and raped in Guatemala when she was seven years old.” That horrifying sentence begins a recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth...

Nicole Narea, Law360, Apr. 17, 2019 "U.S. Attorney General William Barr's recent decision to restrict certain asylum-seekers from being released on bond vastly expands the Trump administration's detention capabilities, but scholars warn...

David Isaacson, Apr. 17, 2019 "In a development decried by several refugee-serving and civil rights organizations , the Canadian government’s proposed budget bill, Bill C-97 , contains within it an amendment to the Immigration and Refugee...

Matt Kwong, CBC News, Apr. 9, 2019 "[F]or Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration-law professor at Cornell University , Nielsen was far from soft on immigration. "Secretary Nielsen will be perceived as the most hardline [Homeland Security] secretary...

NWIRP, Apr. 5, 2019 "Today, in a groundbreaking decision, a federal judge in Seattle dealt a blow to the government’s campaign to deter and obstruct asylum seekers applying for protection in the United States. Judge Marsha Pechman ordered...