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Hope and Disappointment in Dilley by Guest Blogger
Posted on 3 Mar 2015 at 1:40pm I spent last week at the detention center in Dilley, Texas, volunteering to help mothers and children detained there. Having previously experienced the harsh conditions at the facility in Artesia, ...

From Leave It to Beaver to Modern Family by Annaluisa Padilla
Posted on 2 Mar 2015 at 10:11am The days when one spouse remained at home and the other went to work aren?t the norm any longer in our society.  Although there may still be some households where only one spouse works outside the ...

It?s Our Security, Stupid by Guest Blogger
Posted on 27 Feb 2015 at 2:22pm I find myself in the unusual position today of agreeing with Rep. Peter King (R-NY) in his NY Daily News Op-Ed Wednesday (Guest column: Brooklyn terror suspects show it’s insane to not approve mone...

The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance by Anastasia Tonello
Posted on 24 Feb 2015 at 1:31pm Or (Thank You Sean Penn for Starting the Immigration Discussion at the Oscars) I love film.  I love the Oscars.  To me, the Oscars, unlike the other award shows, represent the best of all aspects o...

One Week, Two Injunctions by Guest Blogger
Posted on 24 Feb 2015 at 10:49am What a week. Last week began with a preliminary injunction temporarily preventing President Obama from implementing his executive action plan to protect millions of immigrant families from deportat...

Traitor? Not So Much. by Crystal Williams
Posted on 19 Feb 2015 at 12:45pm I was called a traitor, twice, in less than an hour today. It?s not the first time in my role as AILA?s Executive Director that I?ve been called that, but it still offends. The fallacies about immi...

In Defense of Consular Officers by Guest Blogger
Posted on 19 Feb 2015 at 6:43am For over 25 years, I have been living and working abroad helping noncitizens secure family, work and other types of visas to the United States.  As a specialist in consular law and procedure, I?ve ...

Politicizing Established Principles of Prosecutorial Discretion Without Offer... by Annaluisa Padilla
Posted on 17 Feb 2015 at 12:40pm Judge Andrew Hanen?s ruling this week issuing a temporary injunction to the expanded DACA and new DAPA programs announced as part of the President?s concrete steps to alleviate our current dysfunct...

Who Will Carry the Torch? by Guest Blogger
Posted on 11 Feb 2015 at 12:10pm Even now, over seven months since my first tour of duty in Artesia, I still get chills just thinking about it.  I am not sure I have really taken the time to process everything I experienced. I am ...

Big Data, Bad Data: Resolving the Tyranny of the Database by William Stock
Posted on 9 Feb 2015 at 12:46pm This term, the Supreme Court is considering a case that implicates the doctrine of “consular non-reviewability”–the legal principle that generally, courts in the United States will not review the d...


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Update on Texas v. United States -- District Court Denies Stay of Injunction,... by Immigration Prof
Posted on 10 Mar 2015 at 5:36am Judge Andrew Hanen Seth Robbins of AP reports on the latest from Texas v. United States, the lawsuit in which 26 states have sought to halt President Obama's expanded deferred action program from g...

MapFight: Your Classroom App by Immigration Prof
Posted on 10 Mar 2015 at 4:53am MapFight is a handy teaching app. It allows you to compare countries and states by size. If you're talking about refugees and asylees, you might want to discuss the fact that Germany had the highes...

Immigration Article of the Day: Slavery by Another Name: 'Voluntary' Immigra... by Immigration Prof
Posted on 10 Mar 2015 at 4:46am Slavery by Another Name: 'Voluntary' Immigrant Detainee Labor and the Thirteenth Amendment by Anita Sinha, American University - Washington College of Law, February 27, 2015, Stanford Journal of Ci...

The Underside of Fraternity Life in America? by Immigration Prof
Posted on 9 Mar 2015 at 6:03pm A University of Oklahoma fraternity caught on video singing a racist song is all over the news. Unfortunately, this kind of intolerance is too common in Greek life. Last month, for example, a frate...

At the Movies: Crossing Over by Immigration Prof
Posted on 9 Mar 2015 at 5:41pm Crossing Over A Reel Progress screening and live Q&A March 11, 2015, 6:00pm ET - 8:00pm ET About This Center for American Progress Event ?Crossing Over? documents the sacrifices and triumphs of thr...

DREAM On: Immigration Reform on the Deep Back Burner by Immigration Prof
Posted on 9 Mar 2015 at 7:40am It should be no surprise but the nation is unlikely to see immigration reform in the near future. Immigration reform has been on the congressional agenda for at least a decade. Nothing good has com...

From the Bookshelves: Forgotten Citizens Deportation, Children, and the Maki... by Immigration Prof
Posted on 9 Mar 2015 at 6:59am Forgotten Citizens: Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans by Luis Zayas (Oxford University Press, 2015) A topic of immigration that has never been dealt with directly...

Timothy Dugdale, Six Degrees of Sutton by Immigration Prof
Posted on 9 Mar 2015 at 6:54am Amongst my LGBT friends, the name Jeff Sutton gets their blood boiling or running cold. Sutton wrote the majority opinion in the Sixth Circuit gay marriage case that has now set up the Supreme Cour...

Happy International Women's Day (8 March) by Immigration Prof
Posted on 8 Mar 2015 at 8:29am International Women's Day has been observed since in the early 1900s. In 1908, unrest and critical debate was occurring amongst women. Women's oppression and inequality was spurring women to become...

Best Sex Symbols of the 2010's by Immigration Prof
Posted on 8 Mar 2015 at 7:53am Guess who is Number 1? Shakira An advocate of immigration reform in the United States, Grammy-winning Latina pop singer Shakira was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, on February 2, 1977. Her father i...


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