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 Recio, Austin American-Statesman, Jan. 3, 2023
"The U.S. Constitution's supremacy clause states that federal laws, rules and regulations trump conflicting state laws, as was upheld in a 2010 Supreme Court case on illegal immigration in Arizona. Will the Democratic Biden administration strike back? “They did it in Arizona,” said Cornell Law School immigration professor Stephen Yale-Loehr, referring to the 2010 Supreme Court case where the Obama administration challenged an Arizona law similar to Texas' SB 4. “It was unconstitutional,” Yale-Loehr said the Supreme Court’s ruled on that state law. “It violated the federal government’s obligation to control immigration.”