Gisela Salomon, Claudia Torrens, Associated Press, June 15, 2022 " Stephen Yale-Loehr , an immigration law professor at Cornell University, said things look bad for young immigrants: Both the appeals court and the Supreme Court, where the case... Read More
Muzaffar Chishti, Julia Gelatt, MPI, June 9, 2022 "On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama stood in the White House Rose Garden and announced a new program that would transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of unauthorized immigrants brought... Read More
On Friday, April 22, 2022, renowned immigration law scholar and educator Prof. Michael A. Olivas died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His passing is an incalculable loss for the immigration law community. Prior to the publication of an official obituary... Read More
USCIS, Apr. 12, 2022 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced today that individuals who previously received deferred action under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) may now file Form I-821D, Consideration of Deferred Action... Read More
Patricia Sulbarán, Victoria Estrada, Latino USA, Feb. 25, 2022 "Thousands of undocumented immigrants request to voluntarily leave the United States every year. Some experience more complicated situations that lead to forceful stays in their... Read More
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia and Stephen Yale-Loehr, September 28, 2021 "What is the proposed DACA regulation? On September 28, 2021, the DHS’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a proposed rule that would codify the... Read More
Miriam Jordan, Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, Sept. 28, 2021 "The Biden administration [published] a proposed rule on Tuesday in hopes of preserving Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a program that has protected hundreds of thousands... Read More
Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 185 / Tuesday, September 28, 2021 "On June 15, 2012, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. The policy— which describes the Secretary... Read More
Jorge Cancino, Univision, Sept. 26, 2021 ""A new proposed rule is about to be published to help about 700,000 dreamers," says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell University School of Law . "The Office of Management... Read More
MALDEF, Aug. 19, 2021 "A Latino civil rights group is suing a national technology company for unlawfully denying a DACA recipient employment because of her immigration status, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in federal court today. ... Read More
UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy Tuesday, August 3rd at 12 pm PDT Join the UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy’s faculty co-directors Ahilan Arulanantham and Hiroshi Motomura tomorrow at noon for a timely conversation... Read More
ImmigrationProfBlog, July 20, 2021 "In light of the recent setback for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia , Director, Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic , provides the following DACA resources... Read More
Peter Margulies, July 19, 2021 "On July 16, U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the Southern District of Texas ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unlawful because it exceeds the power that Congress had delegated... Read More
Presidents' Alliance, July 16, 2021 " COALITION OF OVER 500 PRESIDENTS AND CHANCELLORS URGE CONGRESS TO ACT IMMEDIATELY TO PROTECT DREAMERS IN LIGHT OF TEXAS DECISION PARTIALLY SUSPENDING DACA Decision reinforces need for Congress to act immediately... Read More
Texas v. USA memorandum here ; PI here . Read More