November 26, 2024

Expert: Immigration Law "Not Geared For Local Cops"

Daniel Bush, Newsweek, Nov. 26, 2024 "Donald Trump's immigration advisers are discussing plans to enlist local law enforcement to help the federal government deport undocumented immigrants, according to sources familiar with the matter. ... [I]mmigrant rights groups fear that state and local authorities working hand-in-glove with ICE may take more aggressive actions, such as conducting workplace raids targeting...

November 26, 2024

College campuses scramble to protect foreign and undocumented students under Trump

Hilary Burns, Boston Globe, Nov. 26, 2024 "...Most colleges across the nation are gearing up to protect foreign-born students and faculty members who could be vulnerable when President-elect Donald Trump takes office, including those involved in pro-Palestinian protests, and undocumented immigrants. Colleges don’t know quite what to expect at this point, but campaign promises and policy discussions, including...

November 26, 2024

DACA Lawsuit Filed in Colorado

MALDEF, Nov. 22, 2024 "A Latino civil rights organization filed a federal class-action lawsuit on Thursday against a student loan refinancing and consultation company for refusing services to certain immigrants because of their immigration status. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) filed the lawsuit on behalf of Roberto Roca Hernandez, 32, of Denver, Colorado. Attorneys are challenging...

November 25, 2024

U.S. Farm Groups Want Trump to Spare Their Workers from Deportation

Leah Douglas, Ted Hesson, Reuters, November 25, 2024 "U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally. So far Trump officials have not committed to any exemptions, according to interviews with farm and worker groups and Trump's incoming...

November 22, 2024

The Overlooked Impact of Immigration on the Size of the Future U.S. Workforce

Jeanne Batalova, Michael Fix and Julia Gelatt, MPI, Nov. 2024 "... In the new analysis detailed here, Migration Policy Institute (MPI) researchers provide first-ever projections of the U.S. working-age population by immigrant generation, building on the U.S. Census Bureau’s recent population projections by nativity. The results shed light on future population trends and their implications for the size of...

November 22, 2024

Torn Apart

Prof. Patricia J. Williams, The New York Review of Books, Dec. 5, 2024 "A witch places a curse on a family’s favorite daughter. An evil dragon devours the firstborn babe of the king. It’s biblical: damning the son for the sins of the father. It’s what crime syndicates do: threatening the bodily integrity of a beloved as “incentive” for a debtor to cough up ransom. We view such bargaining...

November 21, 2024

Recording of Webinar: Immigration Reform in 2025 (Cornell Law)

Overview "Immigration will be a key issue in 2025. Everyone agrees that we have a broken immigration system, but people disagree on the solutions. Congress is paralyzed. Presidents try executive actions but are sued. Federal courts seem to be the final arbiters of immigration policy these days. In the meantime, employers face labor shortages. The demographics of an aging population and declining birth rates are...

November 21, 2024

Separated

The book. The official trailer. About the documentary. Review.

November 21, 2024

How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration

Prof. Brianna Nofil, Texas Observer, Nov. 19, 2024 "... Today, the relationship between localities and the federal immigration service is hotly contested in Texas, as the federal courts debate Governor Greg Abbott’s efforts to allow local law enforcement to arrest migrants on illegal entry charges, and as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to rent bed space in Texas jails for migrant detention...

November 20, 2024

Judge Approves Largest Family Separation Lawsuit Settlement

Wilbur P.G. v. U.S. "[T]hese proposed settlement amounts appear to represent the largest amounts achieved thus far by plaintiffs in family separation cases relating to the policy at issue in this case."

November 20, 2024

Free Immigration Webinar Today - Wed., Nov. 20, 2024

Immigration Reform in 2025: What is Possible? Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 1pm EST Register Now Immigration will be a key issue in 2025. Everyone agrees that we have a broken immigration system, but people disagree on the solutions. Congress is paralyzed. Presidents try executive actions but are sued. Federal courts seem to be the final arbiters of immigration policy these days. In the meantime, employers face...

November 19, 2024

International Students Contribute Record-breaking Level of Spending and 378,000 Jobs to the U.S. Economy

NAFSA, Nov. 18, 2024 "NAFSA: Association of International Educators, in partnership with JB International, announced new data today that show that 1.1 million international students at U.S. colleges and universities contributed $43.8 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2023-2024 academic year and supported more than 378,000 jobs. The economic activity total is the highest amount ever calculated by NAFSA, eclipsing...

November 19, 2024

Mass deportations will devastate the economy, business leaders warn

Jeff Brumley, BNG, Nov. 18, 2024 "The mass deportation of immigrants promised by Donald Trump would have immediate and disastrous effects on the U.S. economy, Bob Worsley said during a virtual press briefing hosted by American Business Immigration Coalition. The former Republican state senator in Arizona — an entrepreneur and homebuilder —joined several business leaders Nov. 14 in urging the incoming...

November 15, 2024

Trump Targets TPS

Miriam Jordan, New York Times, Nov. 15, 2024 [gift link] "President-elect Donald J. Trump has vowed a crackdown on immigration like never before. While his hard-line rhetoric about illegal immigration harks back to his first campaign, one of the president-elect’s targets this time is a decades-old program providing temporary legal status to about one million immigrants from dangerous and deeply troubled countries...

November 15, 2024

Expert: As Yet, No "Declaration of War" Against Immigrants

CBC, Nov. 15, 2024 "Trump, in order to carry out mass deportations, may seek to circumvent the system by invoking the Alien Enemies Act, which was enacted when the U.S. and France were on the verge of war in the late 1700s. ... "If Trump were to try to use the normal procedures, it would [be to] round up a lot of people and put them into immigration court proceedings," said Stephen Yale-Loehr , a professor...

November 14, 2024

Reduce Health Care Labor Shortages by Recruiting Skilled Immigrants

Tony Payan, José Iván Rodríguez-Sánchez, Moiz Bhai, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, Nov. 6, 2024 The U.S. health care sector is grappling with a severe labor shortage, worsened by the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and an aging population, leading to widespread consequences, including increased patient rejection rates and overall strain on the system...

November 14, 2024

Free Webinar: Immigration Reform in 2025 - What is Possible?

eCornell - Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 1pm EST Register Now Immigration will be a key issue in 2025. Everyone agrees that we have a broken immigration system, but people disagree on the solutions. Congress is paralyzed. Presidents try executive actions but are sued. Federal courts seem to be the final arbiters of immigration policy these days. In the meantime, employers face labor shortages. The demographics of...

November 13, 2024

UConn Law Clinic Transforms Lives of Immigrants

Jeanne Leblanc, UConn Today, Nov. 13, 2024 "The Asylum and Human Rights Clinic helps immigrants along the path to a new life and provides law students with practical, hands-on experience."

November 13, 2024

Expert: Trump Will Encounter Significant Obstacles to Deportation Plan

Bochen Han, SCMP, Nov. 13, 2024 "[E]xperts say that while some migrants will likely heed the warning and voluntarily depart, there are significant hurdles to a massive deportation effort, especially a speedy one. Citing the due process clause of the US Constitution, Stephen Yale-Loehr of Cornell Law School said that “people have a right to a hearing before they can be deported”. “If they have...

November 13, 2024

Saving America by Defending Clients Against Trump’s Immigration Policies

Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Nov. 12, 2024 "On November 5, 2024, Donald Trump was once again elected president. Although Trump’s campaign has been marked by anti-immigrant rhetoric, some hope that a second Trump administration will prove favorable to employment-based immigration. Trump once promised to “staple a green card to every diploma” of graduates of U.S. colleges, and has cultivated...

November 12, 2024

Texas’ 90,000 DACA recipients can sign up for Affordable Care Act coverage — for now

Xiomara Moore, Texas Tribune, Nov. 12, 2024 "Through Jan. 15, DACA recipients — those who under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are temporarily protected to live and work in the U.S. after being brought to the country unauthorized as children — can enroll in the federal health insurance marketplace for the first time since launching 10 years ago. ... Advocacy groups say access to...

November 08, 2024

With U.S. Elections Completed, Mobility Leaders Must Act Now

Angelo A. Paparelli, Nov. 7, 2024 "The voters have spoken. President-elect Donald Trump is heading back to the White House and majority GOP-control in the Senate has been secured (but House control remains uncertain). Mobility professionals should therefore take immediate proactive measures in the runup to January 20. The steps suggested below, we believe, will demonstrate to the company’s leaders and to...

November 07, 2024

"Everything" About Trump on Immigration Scares Expert

Tana Ganeva, The Appeal, Nov. 5, 2024 “What scares me about another Trump term on immigration?” Cornell Professor Stephen Yale-Loehr tells the Appeal. “Everything.” “We saw how much Trump hurt immigrants in his first administration: the Muslim travel ban, family separations, increased delays in processing routine cases. He will hurt immigrants even more if he’s reelected, with devastating...

November 07, 2024

Expert: "Trump just can’t round up students and put them on a plane."

Karin Fischer, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 6, 2024 " Stephen Yale-Loehr , a professor of law at Cornell University who specializes in immigration law, said that while it is important to take Trump’s stances seriously, “there’s a big difference between rhetoric and due process.” People who are to be deported are first entitled to immigration hearings — and, according to Yale...

November 07, 2024

Experts: Trump Mass Deportation Pledge Faces Legal, Economic Barriers

Paula Ramon, Chris Lefkow, AFP, Nov. 6, 2024 "Donald Trump has pledged to launch — on day one of his presidency — the largest deportation operation of undocumented immigrants in US history. Carrying it out may be another matter. “Rhetoric is one thing,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of immigration law at Cornell University. “Actual implementation is something else.” “The...