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...
"We write as law professors with particular expertise in the interaction of executive action and immigration law to clarify that there is no legal requirement that the executive branch limit deferred action or any other exercise of prosecutorial discretion to individuals whose dependents are lawfully present in the United States. Indeed, no legal principle requires that beneficiaries have any dependents at all, as DACA itself and the other examples provided in this letter illustrate. In this letter, we take no position on which individuals the Administration should include in any future prosecutorial discretion program. We do, however, seek to make clear that any conditions for a familial status, such as a requirement that an individual have a dependent with lawful immigration status – and more generally any other criteria for deferred action or other exercises of prosecutorial discretion – are policy choices, not legal constraints." - Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Stephen H. Legomsky, Hiroshi Motomura, Michael A. Olivas, Nov. 3, 2014.