03 February 2025

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

Are Asylum Seekers Safe from ICE? (The Asylumist Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

Behind the scenes as the ABA reacts to DOJ's order to stop providing legal support to immigrants (ABA Journal, Jan. 2025) [text]
- See also related ABC News article.

Federal threats against local officials who don’t cooperate with immigration orders could be unconstitutional − Justice Antonin Scalia ruled against similar plans (The Conversation, Jan. 2025) [text]

How American Latinos came to embrace Donald Trump’s immigration policy (The Conversation, Jan. 2025) [text]

"How are Trump’s deportation targets reacting to his threats?," Al Jazeera, 28 Jan. 2025 [text]

A Nutshell of Immigration Changes under President Trump, Possible Future Changes (ImmigrationProf Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]
- See also related NPR article.

"Protests Against Trump's Immigration Polices Erupt Across the Country," Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025 [text]

Support for Mass Deportation Drops Well Below Half as People Consider Other Options (Fulcrum, Feb. 2025) [text]

"Trump officials make plans to revoke legal status of migrants welcomed under Biden," CBS News, 1 Feb. 2025 [text]

Trump’s Deportation Machine Targets U.S. Citizens, Military Veterans, and Children in Reckless Raids (Immigration Hub, Jan. 2025) [text]

What Just Happened: The Framing of a Migration “Invasion” and the Use of Military Authorities (Just Security Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]
- See also related blog post and podcast.

Why Do Illegal Immigrants Have a Low Crime Rate? 12 Possible Explanations (CATO At Liberty Blog, Jan. 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Memos (Immigration Hub) [access]
- Scroll down to view insights re. immigration & citizenship issues, recent policy actions undertaken by the new administration, and incoming staff members.

"Settlement deservingness perceptions of climate change, economic, and political migrant groups across partisan lines," Frontiers in Sociology, 29 Jan. 2025 [open access]

"The Subfederal in Immigration Polarization," Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, vol. 42, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

Resource:

Litigation Tracker (Just Security) [access]
- Select "immigration & citizenship" under the topic drop-down menu to view legal challenges to Trump administration actions.

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