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...
Adolfo Flores, BuzzFeed News, Dec. 10, 2021
"A border operation launched by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to arrest undocumented immigrants has inadvertently helped asylum-seekers who would have normally been turned away to stay in the US, sometimes outside of detention facilities. ... Audrey Mulholland, staff attorney and interim special project director for TRLA's Operation Lone Star Immigration Response, said: "In the majority of cases, had they been apprehended by [Customs and Border Protection], I think their expulsions would've been likely and indeed some of them had previously been expelled pursuant to Title 42. Operation Lone Star is ironically allowing some of our clients to access asylum proceedings that Title 42 robbed them of."