My friend Morgan Smith wrote this note about the Rio Grande in July 2024. Learn more about Morgan here , here and here .
J.A.M. v. USA "The Court holds that Oscar is entitled to a much lower, but still notable award of $175,000 because he was somewhat older at the time of the incident, was detained for about half...
Path2Papers, July 17, 2024 " What are the policy changes the Biden administration is implementing regarding temporary work visas? On June 18, 2024, the Biden administration announced a policy...
DOJ, July 18, 2024 "The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs Inc. (Southwest Key), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied children who are...
Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters, July 18, 2024 "Even with all the industries where Californians went on strike during last year’s “hot labor summer,” some of the most active sites of...
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 small subset of the undocumented population in the United States. The DACA program does not provide formal immigration status, but rather is a form of prosecutorial discretion that provides work authorization and deportation deferral. Because DACA was implemented through executive action, some critics have argued that it does not reflect the result of compromise that is often required for major pieces of legislation. However, providing some form of protection for DACA recipients has consistently enjoyed bipartisan support. A recent decision in the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Texas v. United States held that the DACA program is unlawful. The decision also barred new DACA applications. The court returned a portion of the case back to the district court, where some speculate the DACA program will be terminated. This Viewpoint discusses the consequences of these developments for broader efforts to expand access to healthcare for immigrant populations in the United States. Although the potential end of DACA creates urgent issues regarding continuity of care, it also affords a crucial opportunity to rethink long-standing restrictions on government-sponsored healthcare subsidies."