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...
Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 30, 2024
"Former President Donald Trump says he will compel local police to enforce federal immigration law if he’s reelected, which would put him in direct conflict with California laws passed during his presidency prohibiting police from doing just that. ... Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law professor at Cornell University, said if Trump tries the same thing during a second administration, it will likely get tied up in litigation again. “Courts would have to make a final decision as to whether he could deny funding to those jurisdictions,” he said. ...In general, it would be harder for Trump to deputize local police for immigration enforcement in places like California that have passed sanctuary laws, Yale-Loehr said."