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Trump’s tougher border policy appears to be backfiring, experts and data suggest
Despite Trump's claims that he wants someone who will be "tougher", on immigration issues, Kirstjen Nielsen will be perceived as the most hardline Secretary of Homeland Security we've ever had. Recent data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection Recent reveal Trump's...
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Trump’s immigration agenda faces serious legal hurdles, no matter who is homeland security secretary
Trump's call for a "tougher" secretary of homeland security is unrealistic. ABC reports on how Kirstjen Nielsen's time in the Trump administration was complicated by her accountability to Congress and how the immigration changes Trump and his administration have been...
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Ninth Circuit Appeals Court Grants More Protections for Asylum Seekers
The number of migrants seeking asylum at the southern border of the US has been steadily rising. Trump's administration has tried to make claiming asylum harder by narrowing grounds for winning asylum, imposing daily entry quotas, and forcing people to stay in Mexico...
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Meet the immigrant who got a second chance from Justice Neil Gorsuch
In 2010, James Dimaya's no contest plea for residential burglargies led an Obama administration immigration judge to bring removal proceedings against the lawful permanent resident. Arguing the law used against him was unconstitutionally vague, Dimaya's lawyers...
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CNN: Trump says Alabama woman who joined ISIS should not return to US
The Trump administration asserts that Hoda Muthana, the Alabama woman who joined ISIS and is publicly pleading to come back to the United State, cannot return, but the situation is not clear cut. I spoke with CNN about some of the circumstances and details involving...
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Reuters: Trump limits asylum from Mexico border, caravans head north
I was quoted in a Reuters article on President Trump's executive order that suspends the granting of asylum to migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. "...Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor at Cornell Law School, said the administration may struggle to...
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An executive order cannot repeal birthright citizenship, period.
Should President Trump make good on his threats to sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship, the move would be both legally and procedurally invalid. In an op-ed for The New York Daily News, I outline several obstacles the President’s stated...
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Refugees In The Empire State: A Panel Discussion – 8/20/18
I was honored to participate in an hour-long panel discussion on WCNY about how President Trump’s immigration changes are affecting people in NY. The show is available via live-stream starting Monday Aug. 20 at 10 pm at http://www.wcny.org/connect-ny/. A...
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Texas’s DACA Challenge Sets Up Supreme Court Showdown
In an interview with Bloomberg, I discuss the concern that Texas’s recent DACA challenge could force the issue into the Supreme Court. Should U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen decide in favor of Texas, he would be in conflict with other U.S. District Judges...
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USA Today: ICE on ice? Move to abolish ICE, at center of storm in immigration battle, has a long way to go
In an article with USA Today, I weigh in on the likelihood of ICE being abolished in the wake of current controversy...
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