Tim Marchman, Wired, Oct. 31, 2024 "Elon Musk could have his United States citizenship revoked and be exposed to criminal prosecution if he lied to the government as part of the immigration process...
Yeganeh Torbati, Washington Post, Nov. 1, 2024 "Three decades ago, when Elon Musk launched his career working illegally in the United States, the U.S. immigration system did little to pursue or...
Muzaffar Chishti, Kathleen Bush-Joseph, and Madeleine Greene, MPI, Oct. 30, 2024 "The 100,034 refugees resettled in the United States in fiscal year (FY) 2024 represent the largest resettlement...
Justice Action Center, Oct. 24, 2024 "This week, eleven directly impacted individuals and Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) members represented by Justice Action Center (JAC) and Make...
Envision Freedom Fund, the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Oct. 29, 2024 "A groundbreaking class action lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District...
Donald Kerwin, Brendan Kerwin, JMHS, CMS, January 29, 2024
"This paper examines the staffing needs of the US Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), as it seeks to eliminate an immigration court backlog, which approached 2.5 million pending cases at the end of fiscal year (FY) 2023. A previous study by the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) attributed the backlog to systemic, long-neglected problems in the broader US immigration system. This paper provides updated estimates of the number of immigration judges (IJs) and “judge teams” (IJ teams) needed to eliminate the backlog over ten and five years based on different case receipt and completion scenarios. It also introduces a data tool that will permit policymakers, administrators and researchers to make their own estimates of IJ team hiring needs based on changing case receipt and completion data. Finally, the paper outlines the pressing need for reform of the US immigration system, including a well-resourced, robust, and independent court system, particularly in light of record “encounters” of migrants at US borders in FY 2022 and 2023."