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Reject California’s Proposition 39: Trump’s Fearmongering, Billionaire Money, and Your Right to Vote
An eligible citizen can submit a genuine ballot and still lose their vote because of a paperwork error. That is the central problem with California’s
Ninth Circuit: Due Process Still Applies to Immigrants Detained Inside the United States
The federal government has increasingly advanced an expansive theory of immigration detention: that once Congress designates a noncitizen as “inadmissible” and subjects that person to
Your Client Won Release From ICE Detention. Now How Do They Get Home?
An attorney’s guide to post-release transportation, shelter, and reunification resources at California’s ICE detention centers Winning release from immigration detention can produce an unexpectedly practical
Deny, Deny, Deny: How the Trump Administration Is Reengineering Immigration Law One BIA Decision at a Time
It is only August, and the Board of Immigration Appeals has already spent 2026 producing precedent decisions at a pace that suggests somebody at EOIR
BIA Overrules Matter of Arrabally: A Harsh New Advance Parole Rule, and What It Actually Means
On August 13, 2026, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a major decision in Matter of Delcarmen-Lara, 29 I&N Dec. 830 (BIA 2026), overruling Matter
Contempt for Thee, Not for Me: EOIR’s Proposed Rule for Punishing Lawyers Who Say the Quiet Part Out Loud
There is something almost admirable about the Trump administration’s capacity to make parody obsolete. After a year in which immigration adjudication has become increasingly punitive,
More Than 50 Federal Cases and Counting
Fighting Unlawful Immigration Detention in 2026 Federal court is supposed to be where a person can turn when the government has exceeded its lawful authority.
The Great Writ Under Siege: Habeas Corpus in the Age of Mass Detention
The battle over immigration detention has reached every federal courthouse in America In the past six months, something remarkable has happened in federal courthouses across
Habeas Corpus Triumphs: Freeing Families from ICE Overreach in One Month
In the face of intensified immigration enforcement across California and the nation, something remarkable is happening in our federal courts. Immigrants and their advocates are