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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New Book: Women and the Law – Collecting the Leading Scholarship from the Past Year
By Tracy Thomas
I have just published the edited collection, Women and the Law (Thomson Reuters 2017 ed.). This annual reference book collects the leading scholarship in the field of women and law…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Billionaires Can Seek Asylum Too
Photo via South China Morning PostThe story of Guo Wengui makes for a great in-class real-o-thetical on asylum. With so much news coverage of indigent asylum seekers around the globe,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
ICE Settles Case Challenging Interference with Legal Representation at Dilley
From AICThe parties in Dilley Pro Bono Project v. ICE have reached a settlement that ensures access to mental health evaluations for certain detained mothers and children seeking asylum. The case was…
ImmigrationProf Blog
When Asylum Meets National Security
The Guardian has the heartbreaking story of Shakila Zareen, photographed here by Rada Akbar.Shakila sought asylum in the U.S. after facing significant abuse at the hands of her husband -…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Trumpcast: Aggressive on Immigration
In this Trumpcast on Slate, Jacob Weisberg talks to Julia Preston of the Marshall Project about Donald Trump’s immigration policies and how the system is failing immigrants and those seeking…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Migrants in surge fare worse in immigration court than other groups
Julia Preston reports on the rapid rise in rates of in absentia removal orders for asylum seekers who came in the "surge" of Central Americans fleeing criminal violence in 2014.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DACA Recipient Helps UAC Obtain Asylum
From Yahoo News:When attorney Cesar Vargas first met his teenage client Ivan Ruiz, a newly arrived undocumented immigrant from Honduras, he noticed Ruiz seemed to wear the weight of his traumatic childhood…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Why Elections Matter: The Case of Francisco Rodriguez
Francisco Rodriguez by Rose Lincoln (Boston Globe)Steve Coll for the New Yorker offers us a tale on why elections make a difference, especially for MIT janitor Francisco Rodriguez. Rodriguez is…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Guest Blog Post by Professor Rebecca Sharpless: Justice Delayed but Not Denied: Eleventh Circuit on Deliberate Misrepresentation
Professor Rebecca SharplessThe Eleventh Circuit has ruled in Alfaro v. U.S. Attorney General that a trailer in a jungle run by contra insurgent fighters during the Nicaraguan civil war is not…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Challenging The U.S. Government’s Practice of Turning Away Asylum Seekers at the Border
A class action lawsuit was filed today challenging Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) practice of turning away asylum seekers who present themselves at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border.The American…