Cassandra Burke Robertson, Irina D. Manta, The Conversation, Jan. 20, 2025 "...We are law professors who’ve studied the complex intersection of executive power and immigration enforcement...
Jose Antonio Vargas, Jan. 19, 2025 - How I Got “Legal” After 31 Years as an Undocumented American [Spoiler Alert: He got an O-1 visa and a (d)(3) waiver!] "On Christmas night, for...
American Council on Education, Jan. 2025 "Promises to bring changes to the U.S. immigration system were central to President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign. Most prominently, Trump expressed...
Lucas Guttentag reports: "In anticipation of next week, I wanted to share that the Immigration Policy Tracking Project (IPTP) website is updated for Trump 2.0. Beginning Monday, all new federal immigration...
Nicole Narea, Vox, Jan. 16, 2025 "One of the first bills that could be sent to President Donald Trump after he is inaugurated Monday would vastly expand immigration detention and make it easier...
Camille Mackler, Documented, July 27, 2021
"Judge Robert Katzmann was struck the same way we all are by the fundamental lack of fairness in immigration proceedings. It started in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the late 2000s. Judge Katzmann was increasingly shocked at the volume of appeals filed by immigrants who had judgments against them in the immigration courts.
Katzmann was struck by the poor quality legal representation the immigrants had — if they had a lawyer at all. Uncharacteristically for a judge, he took concrete action.
He “didn’t practice in immigration court; he didn’t have a loved one facing detention or deportation,” his former clerk and long-time friend, Lindsay Nash, remembered. “The fact that he, while sitting on the Second Circuit, saw what he saw — a real crisis of justice for immigrants in our legal system — from appellate briefs and then made it his mission to change that dynamic speaks volumes about who he was as a judge and a person.” ... "