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News Organizations
The Economic Times -- Record number of detained immigrants opt for voluntary departure in US, February 13, 2026
CBS News -- Voluntary departures hit record high as detained immigrants lose hope of getting released or winning in court, February 12, 2026
NPR -- Immigration courts fast-track hearings for Somali asylum claims, February 9, 2026
Sacramento Bee -- California ICE detention doubles in one year. One center surges from 3 to 1,800 , February 6, 2026
ABC 13 -- Family says YES Prep student deported to Honduras despite no criminal record, February 6, 2026
Medium -- Analysis: The Racism Behind Bloated Deportation Numbers, February 5, 2026
Stateline -- Immigration detention passed 70,000 in January An increasing percentage of detainees, 74%, have no criminal history, data shows., February 5, 2026
The Spokesman-Revew -- How can someone in midst of legal process to stay be deported? And other questions about America’s confusing immigration laws, February 1, 2026
AP -- 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and father return to Minnesota from ICE facility in Texas, February 1, 2026

Policy and Public Interest Groups
Center for Immigration Studies -- Why Have Asylum Grant Rates Been Plummeting?, December 1, 2025
Migration Policy Institute -- Breaking the Cycle of Dysfunction at the U.S. Immigration Courts, November 2025
Migration Policy Institute -- U.S. Immigrant Detention Grows to Record Heights under Trump Administration, October 29, 2025
Niskanen Center -- The impact of reassigning 6,700 federal workers to immigration, August 5, 2025
WOLA -- Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: Trump’s First Days, January 24, 2025
The Hamilton Project -- Immigration and the macroeconomy in the second Trump administration, December 3, 2024
Center for Migration Studies -- Immigration Raids in Jackson, Mississippi, Five Years Later: An Evidence-Based Analysis to Dissuade Mass Deportation Policy and Promote a New Immigration Pathway, August 6, 2024
Center for Immigration Studies -- America’s Reddest (and Stealthiest) Sanctuary State — Not So Stealthy Now, July 24, 2024
Human Rights Watch -- “Disrupt and Vilify”, July 15, 2024

Books
University of California Press -- Practicing Asylum, 2023
Crimmigration and Pol-ice Reform, 2022
Contextualizing Health and Aging in the Americas Effects of Space, Time and Place, September 23, 2018
ILR School, Cornell Univesrity -- Book Review: Border Lives: Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and Commuters in Tijuana by Sergio Chávez and Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza , July 17, 2018
Lexington Books -- Identities on Trial in the United States: Asylum Seekers from Asia, 2018
Oxford University Press -- Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, 2018
The Pennsylvania University Press -- The Rhetorics of U.S. Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness, 2015
Routledge -- Making Law and Courts Research Relevant: The Normative Implications of Empirical Research, 2015
University Of Pennsylvania Press -- Immigration Judges and U.S. Aslym Policy, 2015

Legal and Scholarly
Ethical Praxis in Migrant Research -- Field-Based Recommendations for Ethical Praxis in Refugee Health Research Amid Increased Surveillance, Securitization, and Distrust, January 9, 2026
Global Health -- Migration-Related Trauma Among Asylum Seekers Exposed to the Migrant Protection Protocols, January 6, 2026
Research Paper in Economics -- The Fractured Metropolis: Optimization Cutoffs, Uneven Congestion, and the Spatial Politics of Globalization, December 4, 2025
Law 360 -- DC Judge Orders ICE To Disclose Metadata In FOIA Fight, December 3, 2025
Interest Groups and Advocacy -- ISOs, the IRS, and the H-election option: when immigration nonprofits act as interest groups, November 29, 2025
Bender's Immigration Bulletin -- "A Slow Parade of Thuggish Buffoonery", November 24, 2025
The US Deportation System: History, Impacts, and New Empirical Research -- The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, November 4, 2025
Review of Law and Social Justice -- Disparate Discretion: Can Diametric Approaches to Prosecutorial Discretion be Reconciled Under One Immigration law?, November 2025
International Public Management Journal -- Unpacking public corruption in the U.S.: An actor-action-target analysis, October 17, 2025

Government
Congresssional Budget Office -- Effects of the Immigration Surge on the Federal Budget and the Economy, July 2024
Oversight letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland -- Senator Cramer Leads Letter Addressing the Biden Administration’s “Mass Amnesty” for Migrants, June 13, 2024
New York City Controller -- Economic Benefits of Immigration Legal Services, March 18, 2024
Congressional Budget Office -- The Demographic Outlook: 2024 to 2054, January 2024
In the Supreme Court of the United States -- Brief of Forty-two Former Immigration Judges and Members of the Board of Immigration Appeals as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner Campos-Chaves and Respondent Singh , October 26, 2023
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Senate Hearing -- Preserving Due Process and the Rule of Law: Examining the Status of Our Nation’s Immigration Courts, October 18, 2023
The House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement -- Statement for the Record: The Biden Border Crisis: Part III, May 23, 2023
Government Accountability Office -- Immigration Courts: Actions Needed to Address Workforce, Performance, and Data Management Challenges, April 2023
U.S. Senate Press Release - United States Senator for Oklahoma -- Lankford Raises Alarm Over False ICE Data in Letter to DOJ, February 3, 2023

Blogs
The Immigration Lab Blog -- Growing Numbers of Afghan Migrants Face Deportation in Court, October 13, 2023
Blogging Big Blue -- IRS Offers Reprieve: Big Corporations Not Penalized for Omitting Estimated AMT Payments, June 8, 2023
Letters from an American, September 27, 2022
Immigration Lawyers on the Web (ILW) -- Is the Executive Office for Immigration Review incompetent — or is Trump hiding something? , June 9, 2020
America's Voice -- Immigration 101: What is ‘Remain in Mexico’, or the Migration Protection Protocols (MPP)?, November 15, 2019
The National Interest -- Price Of Bail Bonds For Illegal Immigrants Is Surging, Data Shows, July 22, 2019
ImmigrationProf Blog -- Prosecution of Sex Trafficking of Children is Down Nationwide, July 16, 2019
ShadowProof -- Supreme Court Maintains Congress Granted Homeland Security Secretary Broad Power To Detain Immigrants Without Bail, March 20, 2019
The National Memo -- Why Corrupt Public Officials Have Less To Fear From Trump, October 17, 2018
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