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Inside News
January 24, 2025 - by Daniel M. Kowalski
Jan. 23, 2025 DHS Immigration Enforcement Memo
Outside News
January 15, 2025 - by Daniel M. Kowalski
ACLU FOIA Litigation Continues to Disclose ICE Proposals to Expand...
Inside News
January 06, 2025 - by Daniel M. Kowalski
OFLC Publishes List of Randomized H-2B Applications Submitted...
Outside News
January 15, 2025 - by Daniel M. Kowalski
ACLU FOIA Litigation Continues to Disclose ICE Proposals to Expand...
Inside News
January 11, 2025 - by Daniel M. Kowalski
CA1 on CAT: Akinsaya v. Garland
Outside News
January 15, 2025 - by Daniel M. Kowalski
Biden’s USICS Welcomes Entrepreneurs Through the H-1B and O Visas...
Inside News
January 13, 2025 - by Daniel M. Kowalski
CA5 on Fact Finding, Withholding: Partial Remand to BIA, Santos...

Current Outside News

Newark Mayor: ICE Raided Business Without a Warrant, Detained...

Steve Strunsky, NJ.com, Jan. 24, 2025 "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carried out a raid on a Newark business Thursday, detaining non-citizens and citizens alike, the city’s...

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Hospitals Say They Won’t Turn Patients Away

Vanessa G. Sánchez, Daniel Chang, KFF Health News, January 23, 2025 "California is advising health care providers not to write down patients’ immigration status on bills and medical...

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Hospitals Say They Won’t Turn Patients Away

Vanessa G. Sánchez, Daniel Chang, KFF Health News, January 23, 2025 "California is advising health care providers not to write down patients’ immigration status on bills and medical...

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More Birthright Citizenship Lawsuits Filed

Legal journalist Chris Geidner ("Law Dork") posted this explainer on his Substack detailing the lawsuits as of Jan. 21, 2025. A hearing on a TRO motion in one of the cases is scheduled for Thursday...

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States Sue Trump Over Birthright Citizenship (Jan. 21, 2025)

The lawsuit is here . The statement by California Attorney General Rob Bonta is here . The statement by Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings is here .

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Expert: Courts Likely to Strike Down Trump's Citizenship...

Robert Brodsky, Bart Jones, Newsday, Jan. 20, 2025 "Arguably the most controversial order he signed Monday, with potentially the largest impact, would seek to end "birthright citizenship"...

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Changes at EOIR

The New York Times is reporting that four top EOIR officials have been fired: "The four officials included Mary Cheng, the acting director of the Executive Office of Immigration Review. The three...

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Trump’s idea to use military to deport over 10 million migrants...

Cassandra Burke Robertson, Irina D. Manta, The Conversation, Jan. 20, 2025 "...We are law professors who’ve studied the complex intersection of executive power and immigration enforcement...

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Jose Antonio Vargas - DOCUMENTED!

Jose Antonio Vargas, Jan. 19, 2025 - How I Got “Legal” After 31 Years as an Undocumented American [Spoiler Alert: He got an O-1 visa and a (d)(3) waiver!] "On Christmas night, for...

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Issue Brief: Immigration-Related Campus Concerns

American Council on Education, Jan. 2025 "Promises to bring changes to the U.S. immigration system were central to President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign. Most prominently, Trump expressed...

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Current Inside News

Jan. 23, 2025 DHS Immigration Enforcement Memo

Jan. 23, 2025 DHS Immigration Enforcement Memo

DHS, Jan. 23, 2025 "(1) For any alien DHS is aware of who is amenable to expedited removal but to whom expedited removal has not been applied: a. Take all steps necessary to review the alien's...

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DHS Deputizes U.S. Marshals, DEA, ATF and BOP for Immigration Enforcement

DHS Deputizes U.S. Marshals, DEA, ATF and BOP for Immigration...

DHS, Jan. 23, 2025 "Today, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman issued a directive essential to fulfilling President Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations...

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Here's the TRO (Washington v. Trump)

Here's the TRO (Washington v. Trump)

Washington v. Trump, Jan. 23, 2025 "There is a strong likelihood that Plaintiffs will succeed on the merits of their claims that the Executive Order violates the Fourteenth Amendment and Immigration...

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Seattle Judge Blocks Trump's "Blatantly Unconstitutional" Birthright Citizenship EO

Seattle Judge Blocks Trump's "Blatantly Unconstitutional"...

Rachel Riley, Law360, Jan. 23, 2025 (subscription) "A Washington federal judge has paused enforcement of President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship, calling the...

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Setting the Record Straight About Sanctuary Policies

Setting the Record Straight About Sanctuary Policies

NIPNLG, Jan. 22, 2025 "Recently, America First Legal sent letters to various state and local officials across the country, wrongly and deceptively arguing that sanctuary policies are not only illegal...

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ICE Courthouse Enforcement Memo (Jan. 21, 2025)

ICE Courthouse Enforcement Memo (Jan. 21, 2025)

Interim Guidance: Civil Immigration Enforcement Actions in or near Courthouses "This memorandum provides interim guidance governing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) civil immigration...

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DOJ Immigration Enforcement Memo (Jan. 21, 2025)

DOJ Immigration Enforcement Memo (Jan. 21, 2025)

DOJ, Jan. 21, 2025 - Interim Policy Changes Regarding Charging, Sentencing and Immigration Enforcement

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Expedited Removal Effective Now, Nationwide

Expedited Removal Effective Now, Nationwide

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 01/24/2025 "This Notice rescinds the March 21, 2022 Notice, Rescission of the Notice of July 23, 2019, Designation for Expedited...

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Presidential Actions on Immigration; ACLU Lawsuit

Presidential Actions on Immigration; ACLU Lawsuit

On Jan. 20, 2025 President Trump issued the executive actions related to immigration linked below: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/guaranteeing-the-states-protection-against-invasion...

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New Practice Advisory: Stays of Removal

New Practice Advisory: Stays of Removal

American Immigration Council (Council) and the National Immigration Project, Jan. 17, 2025 "A stay of removal prevents the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from executing a final order of removal...

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