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We’ve been a little busy and haven’t had a newsletter in a minute, but we’ve kept tracking, and a lot has been happening! In this edition, we cover what’s been happening with DACA, Keeping Families Together parole, and all that’s going to happen in New Orleans on October 10. See below and our microsite for

As we enter the dog days of summer, we are greeted by new extremist challenges to immigrant-inclusive policies—and a new trend: the addition of private plaintiffs to State/local government-led lawsuits challenging federal immigration policy (presumably to compensate for their own lack of standing post-USA v. Texas). See below and our microsite for recent developments.  District

Summer is just around the corner, and with that are also some recent decisions coming out of Texas in extremist challenges to immigrant inclusive policies; see below for developments from May. As always, you can find more information about these and other cases on our microsite. Judge Tipton denies intervention in border wall dispute, enters

See below for recent updates and upcoming decisions in extremist challenges to immigrant inclusive policies. As always, you can find more information about these and other cases on our microsite. 19-state challenge to asylum officer regulation dismissed for lack of standing Last week in the Western District of Louisiana, Judge Joseph dismissed for lack of

In addition to its usual showers and unusual celestial events, this April has also brought several developments in extremist litigation challenge immigrant-inclusive policies; and as usual, most of those developments are out of federal courts in Texas. See below and our microsite for the latest.  Applying border wall injunction gets messy, could stiff third parties

As we continue to celebrate a win defending the CHNV Parole Program, we’re also keeping track of developments in anti-immigrant legislation moving through the courts. For example, we’re processing the whiplash (administratively speaking) of Texas’s SB4, which was preliminarily enjoined on Feb. 29  by the district court; briefly allowed to go into effect by the

As we celebrate the just-issued preliminary injunction blocking Texas’s anti-immigrant SB4, see below (and our microsite) for other February developments in extremist litigation challenging immigrant-inclusive policies.  Judge Kacsmaryk denies motion to dismiss TX suit over asylum rule in 9-page opinion  In early February, Judge Kacsmaryk issued an opinion denying the Department of Justice’s motion to

This week we’re taking a break from our regular programming around red state litigation challenging federal immigrant-inclusive policies (as posted on our microsite) to examine a related topic: recent political ploys by extremist state politicians attempting to take immigration policy into their own hands—even when doing so is unlawful under controlling precedent.  Let’s start in

It’s already February and we’re still waiting for big decisions regarding the CHNV parole program, the public charge regulation, and Texas’s challenge to a few trillion in federal spending, but we did get a decision this week adding to Kris Kobach’s long losing streak, and here’s hoping it signals new reasonableness on the part of