25 April 2025

Regional Focus: United States

Short pieces:

Chaos, confusion, and uncertainty: Legal immigration under the Trump administration (Niskanen Center Commentary, April 2025) [text]

Federal Court Clears Way for Registration of Immigrants (ImmigrationProf Blog, April 2025) [text]
- See also related post on Just Security.

The Government is Mass-Emailing People Telling Them to ‘Leave the United States’ Within 7 Days. It’s a Mess, and It Might Be DOGE’s Fault (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2025) [text]
- See also related ImmigrationProf blog post.

ICE has broad power to detain and arrest noncitizens – but is still bound by constitutional limits (The Conversation, April 2025) [text]

"President Trump moves to speed up asylum cases without court hearings," NPR, 15 April 2025 [text]

"A Primer on the Aliens Enemies Act," NPR, 17 April 2025 [access]

There’s no “right way” to immigrate anymore (Vox, April 2025) [text]

"A timeline of the Abrego Garcia case resulting from the Maryland man's mistaken deportation to El Salvador," CBS News, 25 April 2025 [text]
- See also related posts on Immigration Impact and ImmigrationProg Blog.

Trump Administration Abruptly Stopped Processing Green Card Applications Filed by Asylees, Refugees. A FOIA Request Seeks Answers (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2025) [text]

"Trump fires more immigration judges even as he aims to increase deportations," NPR, 22 April 2025 [text]

Trump is Quietly Building a Deportation Army out of State and Local Agencies (Austin Kocher Substack, April 2025) [text via ImmigrationProg Blog]

"What is due process and who is entitled to it? The legal doctrine at the heart of the debate over Trump's deportations," Yahoo News, 22 April 2025 [text]
- See also related NYT article and IRC explainer.

What Just Happened: The Trump Administration’s Reorganization of the State Department – and How We Got Here (Just Security, April 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

100 Human Rights Harms in 100 Days: The Trump Administration’s Assault on Rights in the United States and Abroad (Human Rights Watch, April 2025) [access]

"Down, But Not Out: How Termination of Asylee Status Leaves Open a Path to Lawful Permanent Residency," Immigration and Human Rights Law Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"In First 100 Days, Trump 2.0 Has Dramatically Reshaped the U.S. Immigration System, but Is Not Meeting Mass Deportation Aims," Migration Information Source, 25 April 2025 [text]
- See also related multimedia.

"Physically Here, Mentally There? A Study of Transnational Links and Civic Engagement Among Migrants in the USA," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 24 April 2025 [open access]

"The War on Immigrants," UCLA Law Review, vol. 73 (Forthcoming 2026) [preprint]

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