Immigration Blog

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SCOTUS To Hear ‘Temporary’ Protected Status Challenge for Syrians, Haitians

Expect the justices to send a message to inferior court judges to stay in their statutory lanes

Topics: Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

Appellate Board Issues Three Opinions to Speed Deportation Orders

They upend de facto court-issued ‘amnesties’ for aliens facing deportation

Topics: Immigration Courts

Op-ed: Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center

Topics: Attrition and Enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Immigrant Population Down, but Maybe Less than We Thought

Also, job losses absorbed by foreign workers, not the U.S.-born

Topics: Current Numbers

Unanimous SCOTUS Opinion Streamlines Review of Asylum Decisions

. . . And reins in activist federal judges

Topics: Immigration Courts, Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy, Asylum

If the Austin Shooter Had Survived, Could We Denaturalize Him?

Denaturalization is not punishment, but an ‘undoing of that which should not have been done in the first place’

Topics: National Security, Assimilation and Citizenship, Criminal Aliens

Latest Harvard/Harris Poll Shows Trump ‘SOTU Bump’ on Immigration

A lesson on enforcement the Trump administration and DHS leadership should heed

Topics: Polls and Surveys

Naturalized Citizen Identified as Austin Shooter

Many questions surround the case of ‘a 53-year-old man originally from Senegal’

Topics: National Security, Texas, Criminal Aliens

Appellate Board Corrects Decade-Old ‘Fraud’ Waiver Mistake

The second BIA marriage fraud opinion in two weeks, which is appropriate given how readily the INA accords benefits to alien spouses

Topics: Marriage Fraud

Another Alleged Strange Shooting Attack on a Border Patrol Agent at the U.S.-Canadian Line

Is the suspect, ‘Blu Zeke Daly, aka: Cullan Zeke Daly’, linked to the ‘Zizian’ cult?

Topics: Customs and Border Protection (CBP)