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...
Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact, Sept. 15, 2023
"Cities across the U.S., such as Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, have received thousands of migrants in the past year. Those places’ leaders say feeding and providing shelter to migrants is straining local government resources substantially. New York, Illinois and Massachusetts state and city leaders are urging the federal government to change policies and allocate additional funding to support the rising number of asylum seekers. ... Immigration across the U.S. southern border has reached historic highs during the Biden administration. Stephen Yale-Loehr, a Cornell University immigration law professor, says a migration increase is occurring worldwide "for a variety of reasons, whether it's civil war, or climate change, or persecution or failed states." ... Yale-Loehr, the Cornell University immigration law professor, said he doesn’t foresee a quick or easy solution. "It's a complex problem, and we need a whole of government approach to try to figure this out." Yale-Loehr said."