Regional Focus: United States

Brief Argues Attorney General Lacks Impartiality Necessary to Decide Immigration Cases (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2018) [text]

"Chevron's Liberty Exception," Iowa Law Review (Forthcoming, 2018) [full-text via SSRN]

Criminal Immigrants in Texas: Illegal Immigrant Conviction and Arrest Rates for Homicide, Sexual Assault, Larceny, and Other Crimes (Cato Institute, Feb. 2018) [text]
- Study found that "In Texas in 2015, the criminal conviction and arrest rates for immigrants were well below those of native-born Americans. Moreover, the conviction and arrest rates for illegal immigrants were lower than those for native-born Americans. This result holds for most crimes."

"Detained and Divided: How the US Turned on Vietnamese Refugees," The Guardian, 3 March 2018 [text]

The Doctrine of Consular Nonreviewability in the Travel Ban Cases: Kerry v. Din Revisited (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Feb. 2018) [text via SSRN]

The End of TPS: Policy Options, Social Impacts, Washington, DC, 14 Feb. 2018 [info]
- Follow link for video.

Immigrants Rights Group Sues U.S. Government over Family Separation at the Border (Immigration Impact Blog, March 2018) [text]
- See also related Washington Post editorial.

Key Facts about U.S. Immigration Policies and Proposed Changes (Pew Research Center, Feb. 2018) [text]

The Last-In, First-Out Policy Ain’t Exactly Last-In, First-Out (The Asylumist Blog, Feb. 2018) [text]

Your Affirmative Asylum Case Was Denied. Now What? (Part 1) (The Asylumist Blog, Feb. 2018) [text]

DACA update:

DACA Deadline Passes, Congress Fails to Act and Fate of ‘Dreamers’ Remains Uncertain: 6 Essential Reads (The Conversation, 6 March 2018) [text]

The March 5 DACA Deadline is Here—What Does It Mean for Dreamers? (Immigration Impact Blog, 5 March 2018) [text]

March 5 is Supposed to be the DACA “Deadline.” Here’s What That Means for Immigrants (Vox, updated 5 March 2018) [text]

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- Regional Focus: United States (16 Feb. 2018)

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