14 July 2022

Regional Focus: United States

Blog posts & press:

The Absurdity and Destruction of the Push to Force Title 42 Continuation (Just Security Blog, July 2022) [text]
- See also related Lawfare blog post.

Asylum Office Finally Releases New-ish Statistics (The Asylumist Blog, July 2022) [text]

The Border Within: Interior enforcement and the current state of immigration (Up Front Blog, July 2022) [text]

Immigration in the Supreme Court, 2021 Term (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2022) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

Letter from Human Rights Groups to Presidents Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Joe Biden (Human Rights Watch et al., July 2022) [text]

San Antonio migrant tragedy: 53 deaths down to criminals and a failed US migration system (The Conversation, July 2022) [text]

Some Important Reforms at the US Border: Amid Rampant Abuses, New Policies Bring Hope of a Fairer Immigration System (Human Rights Watch, June 2022) [text]

Supreme Court Permits Biden to Terminate ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program (Immigration Impact Blog, June 2022) [text]
- See also related posts on The Conversation and Lawfare.

New open access text:

Immigration Law: An Open Casebook
 (Kit Johnson) [open access]
- This volume is "the first open-source/open-access casebook on U.S. immigration law. It is designed to serve as the principal text for a broad-based immigration law course as well as a specialty course on crimmigration. The book provides explanations and primary source readings regarding immigration law in the United States. Topics include the constitutional bases for regulating immigration, the contours of the immigration bureaucracy, the admission of immigrants and nonimmigrants into the United States, undocumented migration, the deportation and exclusion of noncitizens, refugee and asylum law, immigration detention, federal and state immigration crimes, border and interior immigration enforcement, and the law concerning citizenship and naturalization."

Reports & journal articles:

"Do Anti-immigration Voters Care More? Documenting the Issue Importance Asymmetry of Immigration Attitudes," British Journal of Political Science (Forthcoming) [preprint]
- See also related Monkey Cage post.

The Challenges of the Current USCIS Fee-Setting Structure (Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, June 2022) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

"COVID-19 vaccination intention and behavior in a large, diverse, U.S. refugee population," Vaccine, vol. 40, no. 9 (2022) [PubMed

Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 36 (2021-2022) [access]
- Browse through freely available articles in the most current volume of this law review.

"When Does Mental Health Coercion Constitute Torture?: Implications of Unpublished U.S. Immigration Judge Decisions Denying Non-Refoulement Protection," Fordham International Law Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (2022) [full-text]

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