Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, Jan. 23, 2025 "Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, along with the attorneys general of California, New York, Colorado, Connecticut...
Nicole Narea, Vox, Jan. 25, 2025 “We’re not going to see a significant increase in actual deportations this year, even with the Trump administration’s best efforts, simply for logistical...
Steve Strunsky, NJ.com, Jan. 24, 2025 "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carried out a raid on a Newark business Thursday, detaining non-citizens and citizens alike, the city’s...
Vanessa G. Sánchez, Daniel Chang, KFF Health News, January 23, 2025 "California is advising health care providers not to write down patients’ immigration status on bills and medical...
Prof. Charquia Wright, First Amendment Defenses to Alien Transportation Crimes, 32 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 971 (2024)
"Florida law now prohibits the transportation of undocumented aliens into the state. Briefings characterize these laws as unconstitutionally preempting federal immigration law and federal due process rights. Despite this emphasis on due process, field, and conflict preemption unconstitutionality, few have addressed the First Amendment implications of human smuggling prosecutions of natural and some corporate persons. The Supreme Court’s Free Exercise precedent protects the religious freedoms of natural persons and some corporations. Under state alien transportation laws, these freedoms cease to exist. Because the Supreme Court has extended these religious protections to some corporations, they too are entitled to First Amendment protection from transportation crimes when religious principles motivated such crimes."