Immigration Detention and Abolition
Prison abolitionism has gained traction. Louisiana, for example, has taken steps recently to reduce the population of the state’s prisons. In June 2017, the...
Immigration
States’ Commandeered Convictions: Why States Should Get a Veto Over Crime-Based Deportation
Vol. 132 No. 8
Federal immigration enforcement turns increasingly on criminal law outcomes, with criminal convictions triggering deportability, detention, and ineligibility for discretionary relief. In fiscal year 2018,...
Refugee Protection at Risk: Remain in Mexico and Other Efforts to Undermine the U.S. Asylum System
For the past year, the Trump administration has been hard at work trying to unilaterally rewrite asylum law. Its latest attempt, the so-called Migrant...
City of El Cenizo v. Texas
Fifth Circuit Reverses Injunction of Texas’s Sanctuary Cities Bill.
Vol. 132 No. 6
Segregation by Citizenship
Vol. 132 No. 5
For centuries, prisoners in the United States were housed together regardless of their citizenship status. That changed in 1999 when the federal government began...
The Right to Be Heard from Immigration Prisons: Locating a Right of Access to Counsel for Immigration Detainees in the Right of Access to Courts
Vol. 132 No. 2
Introduction The United States government holds 39,000 people in immigration detention every day. In 2016, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained 359,520 people....
In re A-B-
Attorney General Holds that Salvadoran Woman Fleeing Domestic Violence Failed to Establish a Cognizable Particular Social Group.
Vol. 132 No. 2
Trump v. Hawaii
Vol. 132 No. 1
As a candidate for President of the United States, Donald Trump “call[ed] for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States...
Sessions v. Dimaya
Vol. 132 No. 1
Recent Terms have brought a sequence of cases challenging portions of the criminal code for unconstitutional vagueness. Criminal defen-dants have sought relief from long...
Jennings v. Rodriguez
Vol. 132 No. 1
Over 350,000 individuals were placed into civil immigration detention in 2016. Held in prison-like detention centers or local jails, detainees wear “orange suits, . . . are...