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