Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, Sept. 13, 2023 "A federal judge on Wednesday again declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program unlawful, though he refrained from ordering officials to terminate deportation protections...

Advance Parole for Educational Purposes: An Info Session for DACA Students and University Allies Tuesday, July 13, 2021 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST American University Washington College of Law Online - Zoom Webinar - Register to get the link Sponsored By:...

This Week in Immigration, July 4, 2023 "Having trouble keeping up with key immigration litigation? This latest episode of TWII has you covered with another edition of The Gavel! Joined by podcast regular Theresa Cardinal Brown , Cornell Law Professor...

Cyrus D. Mehta, June 26, 2023 "In United States v. Texas , the Supreme Court in an 8-1 majority opinion rendered a blow to Texas and Louisiana in holding that they had no standing to challenge the Biden administration on federal immigration policy...

Weill Cornell Medicine, June 2, 2023 "Recent uncertainties regarding the legal status of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program underscore the urgency for policymakers to reassess long-standing restrictions on government-sponsored...

Tim Balk, NY Daily News, June 2, 2023 "A Texas judge who ruled two years ago against the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program heard oral arguments on Thursday in a high-stakes challenge to a revised version of the policy...

UCLA Law, May 18, 2023 "Undocumented student leaders at the University of California secured a critical victory in the  Opportunity for All campaign  today as the  UC Board of Regents announced  their plan to move forward with removing hiring restrictions...

Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, Apr. 28, 2023 "The Biden administration on Thursday asked a federal judge in Texas to stop short of ordering the full termination of the  Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals  (DACA) immigration policy if he finds...

Jin K. Park, Stephen Yale-Loehr, Gunisha Kaur, The Lancet, May 2023 "The DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program is the result of an executive action by President Barack Obama in 2012 to serve as a temporary stopgap measure for a...

Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, Jan. 1, 2023 "Nine Republican-controlled states asked a federal judge in Texas on Tuesday   to   shut down the  Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals  (DACA) program in its entirety   over two years, a move that...

Prof. Peter Margulies, Lawfare, Oct. 7, 2022 "On Oct. 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in Texas v. United States that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program conflicted with the limits on executive authority...

The Presidents' Alliance, TheDream.US, FWD.us, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA "The Presidents' Alliance and co-sponsors, TheDream.US, FWD.us, and the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA, are hosting a virtual...

Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, Oct. 6, 2022 "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has released its decision in the case  Texas v. United States  to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy...

Jorge Cancino, Univision, Oct. 6, 2022 "The future of the nearly 700,000 beneficiaries of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program remains uncertain following the ruling issued Wednesday by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit...

After 10 years of DACA, Dreamers still live in legal limbo - "Because the Biden administration chiefly focused on its battle with the courts, the new rule fails to adopt any substantive measures to expand or strengthen the DACA program. Most conspicuously...

Jacob Hamburger, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, Aug. 30, 2022 "On Tuesday, the Biden administration published a  new rule  codifying the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for the first time into the formal regulatory code. Since President...

Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Aug. 31, 2022 "On August 24, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a  final rule  aimed at “preserving and fortifying” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DACA program...

Gisela Salomon, Claudia Torrens, Associated Press, June 15, 2022 " Stephen Yale-Loehr , an immigration law professor at Cornell University, said things look bad for young immigrants: Both the appeals court and the Supreme Court, where the case...

Muzaffar Chishti, Julia Gelatt, MPI, June 9, 2022 "On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama stood in the White House Rose Garden and announced a new program that would transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of unauthorized immigrants brought...

On Friday, April 22, 2022, renowned immigration law scholar and educator Prof. Michael A. Olivas died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  His passing is an incalculable loss for the immigration law community.  Prior to the publication of an official...

Patricia Sulbarán, Victoria Estrada, Latino USA, Feb. 25, 2022 "Thousands of undocumented immigrants request to voluntarily leave the United States every year. Some experience more complicated situations that lead to forceful stays in their countries...

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia and Stephen Yale-Loehr, September 28, 2021 "What is the proposed DACA regulation? On September 28, 2021, the DHS’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a proposed rule that would codify the DACA...

Miriam Jordan, Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, Sept. 28, 2021 "The Biden administration [published] a proposed rule on Tuesday in hopes of preserving Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a program that has protected hundreds of thousands...

Jorge Cancino, Univision, Sept. 26, 2021 ""A new proposed rule is about to be published to help about 700,000 dreamers," says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell University School of Law .  "The Office of...

MALDEF, Aug. 19, 2021 "A Latino civil rights group is suing a national technology company for unlawfully denying a DACA recipient employment because of her immigration status, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in federal court today. ...