Immigration Syllabus Supplement

DOJ’s recent decision to appoint several military lawyers, or JAGs, to serve as immigration judges is not only against the law, but a bad idea.

Local governments must exercise their constitutional power to cut off cooperation with federal authorities that undermine residents' rights.

Detaining citizens & immigrants without a public safety rationale is inconsistent with American values and wastes of taxpayer money.

An assessment of how DHS and ICE will spend new funds and the balance between deportation enforcement and the system's humanitarian goals and proper legal process.

Amidst an escalation of interbranch tension, the authors explore three emerging legal issues affecting the law of congressional oversight and separation of powers.

Highlights of podcast discussion by experts on DHS, DOJ and Congress.

For the first time in modern history, children born on American soil may be rendered stateless. The risk to non-citizen children is real and urgent.

"Congress has been far more clear than is widely believed about what its view is..."

When part-time soldiers police their neighbors, federal authority displaces state and local officials, and strains civil-military relations.

"The Memorandum ... raises many of the same concerns as an Insurrection Act invocation would, and that could end up looking quite similar in practice."

A "case cruncher" on the legal doctrine governing the state secrets privilege, and a Table containing senior government officials' public acknowledgments.

Where judges have in the past and should in the future draw the line on judicial deference to the President in Alien Enemies Act cases.