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...
In the September 1, 2020 issue of the "hardcopy" Bender's Immigration Bulletin we are honored to reprint in full Prof. Hiroshi Motomura's groundbreaking Cornell Law Review article, "The New Migration Law: Migrants, Refugees and Citizens in an Anxious Age." Here's the intro: "Once every generation or so, entire fields of law require a full reset. We need to step back from the fray and rethink basic premises, ask new questions, and even recast the role of law itself. This moment has come for the law governing migration. Seasoned observers of immigration and refugee law have developed answers to core questions that emerged a generation ago. But now these observers often talk past each other, and their answers often fail to engage coherently with the daunting challenges posed by migration in this anxious age. To try to do better, I undertake four inquiries. In isolation they may seem familiar, but I combine them here in new ways to find a path forward. The first and second inquiries rethink approaches to immigration law that emerged in the twentieth century, but can be too narrow to answer today’s and tomorrow’s pressing questions. The third and fourth inquiries show how the new migration law should push past its traditional boundaries. By rethinking what migration law is, I offer a roadmap for understanding migrants, refugees, and citizens now and into the future."
Here's a video from Feb. 2019: “The New Migration Law: A Roadmap for an Uncertain Future”