12 April 2025

Regional Focus: United States

Opportunities:

Symposium: Defending Hope: Immigration Law Under the 2025 Trump Administration, Davis, CA, 18 April 2025 [info]
- Organized by Immigration and Nationality Law Review.

Webinar: Immigration Actions in First 100 Days of Trump Second Term, 24 April 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

Asylum Fraud is Real, But It’s Not What You Think (The Asylumist Blog, April 2025) [text]
- " I am speaking here about the fraud perpetrated by the Asylum Office itself. How can the Asylum Office commit fraud, you ask? By pretending to fairly adjudicate asylum applications while at the same time, making it impossible for asylum seekers to properly present their cases–that’s how."

Here’s Where Trump’s Deportations are Sending Migrants (Council of Foreign Relations, April 2025) [text]

"Judge halts Trump administration from ending humanitarian parole for people from 4 countries," CBS News, 10 April 2025 [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post and Refugees International explainer.

Protected No More – How States Are Responding to Immigration Enforcement in Sensitive Locations (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2025) [text]

Trump authorizes military use of public land along southern border (The Hill, April 2025) [text]

Trump is Trying to Deter Us from Representing Immigrants in Court. It Won’t Work (Immigration Impact Blog, March 2025) [text]

"Trump Wants to ‘Terminate’ Legal Immigrants’ Social Security Numbers," Rolling Stone, 10 April 2025 [text]

Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans to El Salvador sparks legal questions likely to reach the Supreme Court (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]
- See also related update on court actions posted on ImmigrationProf Blog and an Immigration Impact blog post. An unfolding parallel development involves a Salvadoran who was erroneously deported to El Salvador; see update from CNN.

Visa Revocations Disregard South Sudan War Risks, Overlook U.S. Communities’ Embrace of Refugees (Just Security Blog, April 2025) [text]

"What Rights Do Immigrants Have?," New York Times, 9 April 2025 [text]

When Did the Betrayal Begin? (Lawfare, March 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Afghans.

Reports:

The Alien Enemy Act: History and Potential Use to Remove Members of International Criminal Cartels (Congressional Research Service, April 2025) [text]

Asylum Seekers and the Rise in Homelessness, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper, no. 49 (Univ. of Chicago, April 2025) [text]

Asylum Seekers and Unaccompanied Alien Children at Ports of Entry: An Analysis of Processing and Processing Capacity (Rand, April 2025) [text]

The Impact of U.S. Immigration and Border Externalization Policies on Haitian and Other Black Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Migrants (Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

The New Registration Requirement: Frequently Asked Questions (ILRC, April 2025) [text]

Noncitizen Access to Legal Counsel in Immigration Court Differs by Language Spoken (TRAC, April 2025) [text]

Primer on U.S. Immigration Policy (Congressional Research Service, March 2025) [text]

Trump Immigrant Removals Now 10 Percent Below Biden’s Record (TRAC, March 2025) [text]

Multimedia:

Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times (Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility) [access]

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