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...
"Juventino Trujillo came to the immigration court here in August for his initial hearing, almost a year after authorities had detained the Mexican immigrant. His next court date? Jan 22, 2018. Despite several initiatives by President Barack Obama’s administration, the backlog of open cases in the country’s immigration courts continues to grow to record levels. Trujillo’s is one of more than 342,000 cases pending nationwide as of the end of July, which is an all-time high and more than twice the backlog of a decade ago, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which gathers and analyzes data from government agencies." - Oliver Ortega, Sept. 10, 2013.