UCLA Law, Aug. 2024 " This excerpt is the Introduction to: Hiroshi Motomura , Borders and Belonging (Oxford University Press forthcoming early 2025). Borders and Belonging is a comprehensive yet...
Refugees International, Sept. 5, 2024 "United We Dream and the undersigned 83 national, international, state and local organizations write to express our unwavering objection to the Border Act of...
Todd Miller, The Border Chronicle, Sept. 5, 2024 "How does one go from a U.S. Special Forces Green Beret in El Salvador to doing humanitarian aid work on the border? This is where Tohono O’odham...
Kevin Appleby, CMS, Sept. 2, 2024 "As US citizens and residents celebrate Labor Day, it is important to recognize the contributions immigrants—both legal and undocumented—make to the...
Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 5, 2024 "[L]anguage-access failures [are] documented in a report published Thursday that concluded the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was failing...
Pratheepan Gulasekaram and Karthick Ramakrishnan, June 24, 2016- "United States v. Texas also implicates a less-discussed, but critical, issue: the growing involvement of states in setting immigration policy. ... [U.S. v.] Texas represents a new moment in immigration federalism. While previous state resistance meant selective application of executive action — strong in some places and weak in others — the state plaintiffs here were able to use a federal court to dismantle a major federal administrative policy. States were not able to just carve out a niche for their own oppositional lawmaking. Instead, they were able to effectively alter the course of a national program. Looking ahead, the result in Texas will probably embolden states to intervene more frequently in large-scale immigration decisions, taking sides in a policy fight that previously was left mainly to Congress and the presidency."