Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
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Solutions That Work? Analyzing State Employment Authorization for Noncitizens in the US
Policymakers and advocates would do well to pay careful attention to the legal theories underlying the various state proposals for authorizing employment for noncitizens when considering…

Mayorkas Must Rein in Homeland Security Investigations
Urgent action is needed to rein in this part of DHS that has too much power and is subject to too little oversight.

The President and Immigration Law: The Danger and Promise of Presidential Power
In our penultimate installment of this series, Lucas Guttentag discusses causes for concern and hope. He argues that the Supreme Court has signaled recent retreat from judicial…

The President and Immigration Law Series: Executive Power Beyond Enforcement
Nicholas Espiritu cautions that presidential power goes beyond enforcement - and neither bureaucratic nor constitutional safeguards are sufficient to check these quasi-legislative…

The Supreme Court’s Ominous DACA Decision: Perils for Dreamers in What Comes Next
"The decision is as ominous as it is encouraging."

51 Former Senior National Security Officials to Supreme Court: Rescinding DACA Was “Arbitrary and Capricious”
Fifty-one former senior U.S. national security officials—including former Cabinet members Madeleine Albright, Chuck Hagel, John Kerry, Leon Panetta, and Samantha Power, former…

Why Congress Can’t Ignore the Health Impact of DACA
Nearly 700,000 young immigrants will spend the next six months in limbo, waiting to see whether the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allowed them to…

Norms Watch: Democracy, the Trump Administration, and Reactions to It (September 8-September 15)
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the latest installment of Norms Watch, our series tracking both the flouting of democratic norms by the Trump administration and the erosion of…
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