Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, May 30, 2023 "Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged to challenge a long-standing interpretation of the U.S. Constitution in an attempt to end birthright...
In the July 4, 2004 issue of Bender's Immigration Bulletin I published this essay . As we head into the long weekend...and an even longer 2024 election cycle in which immigration will loom large....
In this one-hour webinar, four experts explain what will happen next at the border. Essential viewing! Watch the recording here .
Senate Joint Economic Committee, Dec. 14, 2022 "As the United States continues its recovery from the pandemic recession, immigrant workers are essential to the continued growth of the labor force...
Muzaffar Chishti, Kathleen Bush-Joseph, MPI, May 25, 2023 "U.S. border enforcement finds itself in an uncertain new era now that the pandemic-era Title 42 border expulsions policy has been lifted...
Matt Naham, Law & Crime, Apr. 26, 2023
"The defamation lawsuit filed by Republican congressman-turned-Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes and his family against journalist Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines over a 2018 Esquire article fell flat this week, as a judge found it “substantially, objectively true” that the family’s farm in Iowa “knowingly” employed undocumented immigrants. ... In a 101-page opinion issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge C.J. Williams granted Lizza and Hearst Magazine’s motion for summary judgment, finding that the Nunes family members had not presented enough evidence to show that there was at least a dispute as to whether the facts in Lizza’s piece were, indeed, false — and falsity is a key element of proving a defamation claim. In his ruling, Williams found that the plaintiffs did likely know that at least some of the laborers on the farm were not in the country legally."