UCLA Law, Aug. 2024 " This excerpt is the Introduction to: Hiroshi Motomura , Borders and Belonging (Oxford University Press forthcoming early 2025). Borders and Belonging is a comprehensive yet...
Refugees International, Sept. 5, 2024 "United We Dream and the undersigned 83 national, international, state and local organizations write to express our unwavering objection to the Border Act of...
Todd Miller, The Border Chronicle, Sept. 5, 2024 "How does one go from a U.S. Special Forces Green Beret in El Salvador to doing humanitarian aid work on the border? This is where Tohono O’odham...
Kevin Appleby, CMS, Sept. 2, 2024 "As US citizens and residents celebrate Labor Day, it is important to recognize the contributions immigrants—both legal and undocumented—make to the...
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 5, 2024 "[L]anguage-access failures [are] documented in a report published Thursday that concluded the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was failing...
ACLU Nebraska, Feb. 9, 2024
"A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Nebraska paints a stark picture of people’s experiences in the Omaha immigration court, a court that is already known as one of the nation’s toughest for asylum seekers. The civil rights organization says in-person observations from more than 500 hearings demonstrate that Omaha immigration court judges are routinely compromising people’s due process rights. The report outlines four specific areas of concern, including the short duration of hearings, judges’ failure to consistently advise people of their rights, deficient interpretation services and the high number of cases without attorney representation."