Muzaffar Chishti and Julia Gelatt, MPI, May 15, 2024 "The Immigration Act of 1924 shaped the U.S. population over the course of the 20th century, greatly restricting immigration and ensuring that...
Nicole Narea, Vox, May 12, 2024 "For all the attention on the border, the root causes of migration and the most promising solutions to the US’s broken immigration system are often overlooked...
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Aline Barros, VOA, May , 2024 "President Joe Biden on Thursday proposed a new regulation to expedite the asylum claims process for specific migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, but the plan drew...
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.”