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News Organizations
Newsweek -- Map Shows States With Highest Immigration Court Backlogs, December 5, 2025
The San Francisco Standar -- How firing 57% of the bench remade SF’s immigration court, December 4, 2025
Mesa Tribune -- Mesa residents go online in fight with ICE, December 2, 2025
Houston Chronicle -- Houston has 38,000 asylum cases. What does the federal freeze mean for them?, December 2, 2025
Mission Local -- S.F. has largest backlog of immigration cases in California. Here’s why. , December 1, 2025
Documented -- Eight NYC Immigration Judges Fired in Latest Nationwide Purge, December 1, 2025
Las Vegas Sun -- Concerns grow as ICE's detention numbers rise in Nevada , November 30, 2025
Daily Caller -- Trump Administration Shuts Down All Asylum Decisions Following National Guard Attack, November 29, 2025
CNN -- An emboldened Trump escalates his anti-immigration crackdown after National Guard shooting , November 28, 2025

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
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
American Law and Economics Review -- Walling Off Crime: An Analysis of the Local Deterrent Effects of Increased Border Control , October 16, 2025
Law 360 -- Feds Drop Charges Against Ill. Couple Arrested At ICE Protest, October 8, 2025
Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) -- Racialized unaccompanied minors: African children in United States immigration detention, September 24, 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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