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...
Nicole Narea, Law360, Dec. 13, 2018 - "In Jennings v. Rodriguez , the high court ruled in February that certain immigrants held in mandatory detention during deportation proceedings aren't entitled to bond hearings after six months in custody.Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law professor at Cornell Law School, said the case pits two contrasting high court decisions against each other.In 2001, in Zadvydas v. Davis , the court interpreted an immigration statute to require periodic bond hearings for immigrants detained after a removal order because to permit indefinite detention of a noncitizen could cause a serious constitutional problem. Just two years later, however, in Demore v. Kim , the court upheld a provision requiring detention of immigrants awaiting their deportation hearing."If Jennings goes back to the Supreme Court, the court will have to determine which decision controls," Yale-Loehr said. "The issue is now more important than ever, with the growing number of immigrants in detention and the long backlogs in immigration courts." "