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...
Joshua Solomon, Times Union, Aug. 27, 2023
"[M]igrants are falling behind in the process of seeking asylum to gain working papers, despite elected leaders repeatedly highlighting the need for that authorization to fill well-documented labor shortages and reduce government assistance for temporary shelters. ... Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School, noted a lack of clarity around the intersection of homelessness and migrants in the law. But he said one thing was clear. “There are a lot of issues that need to be resolved and so far there does not seem to be any coordination between state and local authorities to figure this out,” Yale-Loehr said."