Peter Margulies is a professor at Roger Williams University School of Law, where he teaches Immigration Law, National Security Law and Professional Responsibility. He is the author of Law’s Detour: Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration (New York: NYU Press, 2010).
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The courts failed to accord deference to executive decisions about foreign affairs and resource allocation in immigration enforcement. The Biden administration’s best move might be to develop a more comprehensive explanation for ending the Migrant Protection Protocols.
The ruling will not immediately affect current DACA recipients, but it will bar approval of new applications.
The United States is seeing a troubling rise in unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Resolving the problems at the border will require action from the Biden administration, Congress and the courts.
Most current approaches to resolving the EU-U.S. conflict fall short. It’s time for a hybrid approach.
The ruling lets stand a ban that bars the entry of many who would otherwise be eligible for visas.
The judge held that the rule exceeded the power of both the attorney general and the Department of Homeland Security and issued a nationwide temporary restraining order against the rule’s implementation.
On Oct. 1, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction against President Trump’s nonimmigrant visa ban. What’s in the decision?