19 February 2026

Regional Focus: United States - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Administrative Warrants, Immigration Arrests, and the Fourth Amendment (CATO At Liberty Blog, Feb 2026) [text]

The Army Clause: A Forgotten Constitutional Check on ICE, CBP, and the Pentagon (Just Security, Feb. 2026) [text]

Board of Imitation Appeals (The Asylumist Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]
- See also related Immigration Impact blog post.

How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE’s immigration strategy (The Conversation, Feb. 2026) [text]

Nearly 17% of Team USA Has Direct Immigrant Ties, Research Shows (America's Voice Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

When ICE sweeps a community, public health pays a price – and recovery will likely take years (The Conversation, Feb. 2026) [text]

**Visit the Americas Migration Brief and ImmProf Blog for a much more extensive round-up of news and publications.**

Reports:

At What Cost? Inside the Trump Administration’s Secret Deportation Deals (US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Feb. 2026) [text via The Hill]

How ICE Went Rogue: A Brief Analysis of the Legal Authorities Governing ICE and CBP Operations — and How They’re Being Undermined and Violated by Policy and Practice (American Immigration Council, Feb. 2026) [text]

ICE Arrests across Trump's First and Second Terms: Variation in Targeting, Method, and Geography, Working Paper, no. 34794 (NBER, Feb. 2026) [text]

A Profile of the Growing Black Immigrant Population in the United States (Migration Policy Institute, Feb. 2026) [text]

Resource:

ICE Map [access]
- This site "tracks ICE-related news incidents in individual counties, as well as immigrant detention facilities with documented health and security inspection failures." Read more about it in this Rice Thresher article.

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