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Border Enforcement
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Legal Order at the Border by Evan J. Criddle
Legal Order at the Border by Evan J. Criddle, UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 56, forthcoming 2023AbstractFor generations, the United States has grappled with high levels of illegal immigration across the…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
CBP Expands Pilot Program Eliminating Entry Stamps on Admission to the United States
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently announced that it is expanding a pilot program to eliminate admission stamps in passports. The record being eliminated is the ink stamp and…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Mexican Government to Inspect Northbound Travelers at U.S./Mexico Border
Image courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsFROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES: Mexican immigration officers are set to begin inspecting northbound travelers in the border wait line. The move highlights Mexico’s escalating role…
UK Human Rights Blog
The small boats storm and the unlawful seizure of mobile phones
The storm raging around small boats arriving on the south coast has been brewing for some time. In early summer the focus was a policy to send arrivals to Rwanda.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
NEW GAO REPORT: Southwest Border: Challenges and Efforts Implementing New Processes for Noncitizen Families
On October 17, 2022 the U.S. Government Accountability Office publicly released a new report, Southwest Border: Challenges and Efforts Implementing New Processes for Noncitizen Families.Here is the GAO's summary of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Hofstra Law School’s 2022 Immigration Law and Border Enforcement Program, Student’s Reflection
Guest post by Darcy Guio, rising 3L at The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra UniversityIt was my first trip to California, but it was not what most…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Hofstra Law School’s 2022 Immigration Law and Border Enforcement Program, Professor’s Reflection
Guest post by Alexander Holtzman, Visiting Associate Clinical Professor of Law at The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra UniversityIn May 2022, a group of law students and…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Taming Immigration Trauma by Raquel E. Aldana
Taming Immigration Trauma by Raquel E. Aldana, Cardozo Law Review (Winter 2022).AbstractThis article documents the United States’ century-long efforts to humanize our borders. In the end, law has been insufficient…
ImmigrationProf Blog
NBC News: “Number of migrants crossing border hits another record, with surges in migration by nationalities once rarely seen”
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsWith the midterm elections in the background, news reports on immigration take on greater significance. Stories about the latest "caravan" of migrants traveling through Mexico regularly…
Knowledge Centre
An Introduction to UK Visas and Immigration
It is a widely-acknowledged contradiction that UK laws are detailed, complex and archaic, and yet UK visa applicants often seek (initially at least) to navigate the Immigration Rules without legal…