23 July 2024

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

Court battle to keep Annunciation House open underscores how faith groups strive to welcome strangers in the face of anti-immigrant sentiment (The Conversation, July 2024) [text]

Diverse Flows Drive Increase in U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Population (MPI Commentary, July 2024) [text]
- See also related press release.

Immigrants May Benefit While Others Lose Out From the Supreme Court’s Decision Overruling Chevron (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2024) [text]

The Republican Party Platform and Asylum (The Asylumist Blog, July 2024) [text]

Sharply More Americans Want to Curb Immigration to U.S. (Gallup, July 2024) [access via ImmigrationProf Blog]

We’ve Tracked Over 700 Immigration Bills This Year. Here Are the Trends We’ve Seen (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2024) [text]

What the data says about immigrants in the U.S. (Pew Research, July 2024) [text]
- See also related Pew Research posts on the origins of immigrants and unauthorized immigrants.

Why Are Border Crossings at Their Lowest Level in Four Years? (Immigration Impact Blog, July 2024) [text]

New/updated open access texts:

Crimmigration Law: An Open Casebook (Kit Johnson, July 2024) [open access]
- This casebook "is designed to serve as the principal text for a course on crimmigration--the intersection of immigration law with criminal law and procedure. The book provides explanations and primary source readings regarding U.S. immigration law, the immigration consequences of criminal conduct, immigration detention, noncitizens in the criminal justice system, federal immigration crimes, states and immigration, border enforcement, and interior immigration enforcement." Also available via the a/m link is a related Statutory Supplement.

Immigration Law: An Open Casebook, Version 2.1 (Kit Johnson, July 2024) [open access]
- This casebook "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:

“Disrupt and Vilify”: The War on Immigrants Inside the US War on Drugs (Human Rights Watch, July 2024) [text]

"Immigration in the Shadow of Death," Univ. of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 26, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

Managing Migration at the US-Mexico Border: Recommendations for the Biden Administration (Women's Refugee Commission, July 2024) [text]

"Plenary Power: Teaching the Immigration Law of the Territories," Stetson Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

Saving Lives, Ending Inefficiencies: Steps to Strengthen the U.S. Asylum Adjudication System (Human Rights First, July 2024) [text]

"The Toll Paid When Adjudicators Err: Reforming Appellate Review Standards for Refugees," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 38, no. 2 (Winter 2024) [full-text]
- "In this article, I provide the first comprehensive circuit-by-circuit study of each of the five core elements of the refugee definition to show the depth of disagreement related to standards of review."

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