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...
"This case is about regulations of the Florida State Board of Education and the Florida Board of Governors that classify students who are United States citizens and reside in the State of Florida as "out of state" residents because their parents, who also reside in Florida, are undocumented for federal immigration purposes. As a result of this classification, these Florida residents must pay significantly higher tuition rates to attend the State's public post-secondary educational institutions and are denied the preferential treatment that residents receive throughout the admissions process at several of these institutions. ... [C]lassifying U.S. citizen students who reside in Florida according to their parents' undocumented federal immigration status does not advance any legitimate State interest, much less the State's important interest in furthering educational opportunities for its own residents. Accordingly, Defendants' regulations must fail because they deny to each of these United States citizens the equal protection of the laws as guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution." - Ruiz v. Robinson, Aug. 31, 2012.