Regional Focus: United States

Event:

Launch of new initiative: Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy: Building a Responsive, Effective Immigration System, Washington, DC, 12 August 2019 [info]

Blog posts & essays:

Acting USCIS Director to Asylum Seekers: You Can Live Safely in Your Own Country (The Asylumist Blog, July 2019) [text]

Appeals Court Decision Means Hundreds of Migrants Were Unlawfully Convicted (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2019) [text]

As the Trump Administration Seeks to Remove Families, Due-Process Questions over Rocket Dockets Abound (Migration Policy Institute, July 2019) [text]

Asylum and the New Rule on Expedited Removal (The Asylumist Blog, July 2019) [text]
- See also related blog post on Insightful Immigration, as well as a practice alert from AILA, fact sheet from Penn State Law School and toolkit from the ILRC.

Asylum Restrictions: The President Can Enforce the Law, But Can't Change It (The Conversation, July 2019) [text]

*Cuccinelli's 'Asylum and Internal Relocation Guidance' Sure to Spawn Litigation (Immigration Law Blog, July 2019) [text]

Deterrence without Protection of Asylum Seekers (Center for Migration Studies, July 2019) [text]

Due Process, Immigration Judges, and Immigration Officers (Notice & Comment Blog, July 2019) [text]

East Bay District Court Enjoins New Asylum Rule (Lawfare Blog, July 2019) [text]

The Most Prosecuted Federal Offense in America: A Primer on the Criminalization of Border Crossing (Lawfare Blog, July 2019) [text]

Symposium: Immigration at the Roberts Court One Year after Kennedy’s Retirement (SCOTUSblog, July 2019) [text]

US/Guatemala Sign "Safe Third Country" Agreement, Impact Uncertain (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2019) [text]

"US-Mexico Border Crisis: Contradictions and Conundrums from the Front Line," The New Humanitarian, 30 July 2019 [text]

Reports/articles:

*Access to Attorneys Difficult for Those Required to Remain in Mexico (TRAC, July 2019) [text]

Restoring the Rule of Law through a Fair, Humane, and Workable Immigration System (Center for American Progress, July 2019) [text]

"Searching for Humanitarian Discretion in Immigration Enforcement: Reflections on a Year as an Immigration Attorney in the Trump Era," University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (Forthcoming, 2019) [preprint]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (21 July 2019)
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2 (21 July 2019)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.