Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 2

New open access book:

On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy (Univ. of California Press, Aug. 2025) [open access]

- "Immigrant residents seeking legal status in the United States face a catch-22: the documents that they must present to immigration officials—bank records, paycheck stubs, and contracts in their own names—are often challenging for undocumented people to obtain. In this book, Susan Bibler Coutin analyzes how undocumented immigrants and their legal representatives attempt to surmount documentary challenges. Based on four years of fieldwork and volunteer work in the legal services department of an immigrant-serving nonprofit and in-depth interviews with those seeking status, On the Record explores these complex dynamics by taking seriously both documents themselves and the legal craft that has developed around their use."

Reports:

2025 Supplement to the Seventh Edition of Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy (Foundation Press, 2025) [SSRN]

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 5383662 (Fordham Univ., Aug. 2025) [text]

- See also related NPR story.

Guide to Federal Court Immigration Litigation for Clinical Law Students and New Lawyers (Univ. of Iowa College of Law, Aug. 2025) [text via ImmigrationProf Blog]

Trump’s 2025 Travel Ban: Who is Affected and What It Could Cost the U.S. Economy (American Immigration Council, Aug. 2025) [text]

U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Population Reached a Record 14 Million in 2023 (Pew Research Center, Aug. 2025) [text]

- See also related Q&A.  

Journal articles & book chapters:

"The Discretion Loophole: Executive Power, International Refugee Law, and the Erosion of Asylum Protections in the United States," Stanford Law & Policy Review, vol. 36, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]

"Habeas Class Actions," Harvard Law Review, vol. 139 (Forthcoming, 2026) [preprint]

"Humanitarian Immigration Programs of the United States," Chapter in Visas & International Mobility (Routledge, Forthcoming 2025) [preprint]

"Seeking the Divine: A Proposed Methodology of Religion to Resolve Adjudications Over the Nexus Inquiry in Religious Asylum Claims," Univ. of Chicago Legal Forum, vol. 2024 (2025) [full-text]

Multimedia:

What Happens after Someone is Arrested by ICE? (The Political Scene Podcast Series, 13 Aug. 2025) [access via ImmigrationProf Blog]

Resource:

New and Improved Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions (Just Security, Aug. 2025) [access]

- See also related blog post.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1 (3 Sept. 2025)