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...
"Amici Curiae are 109 immigration law professors, all of whom have substantial expertise and interest in the proper interpretation and enforcement of the immigration laws. Amici have, collectively, more than 1,500 years of experience in immigration law, and many have participated in congressional and national discussion about the administrative actions at issue in this litigation. ...
Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (“DAPA”) and expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) are well within the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s (the “Secretary”) express statutory authority to establish national immigration enforcement policies and priorities as well as the Secretary’s broad discretion in enforcing United States immigration laws. DAPA and expanded DACA are based on considerations peculiarly within the Secretary’s expertise; are not inconsistent with congressional policies underlying immigration-law statutes; follow longstanding administrative practices that Congress has never prohibited or restricted; constitute considered priority-setting and exercises of prosecutorial discretion, not abdication of the Secretary’s responsibilities; and, while providing general criteria for deferred-action decisions, require the exercise of enforcement discretion on a case-by-case basis. The district court’s findings to the contrary should be rejected, and its grant of a preliminary injunction should be reversed." - BRIEF OF IMMIGRATION LAW PROFESSORS AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF REVERSAL, Apr. 6, 2015.