Immigration Law

The Inefficient Gatekeeper of the U.S. Immigration Process: The Role of Nonimmigrant and Immigrant Visa Distinctions

December 16, 2025

The United States immigration system is a quandary of forms, bureaucratic pitfalls, and redundant functions; yet, every year it successfully admits over a million legal immigrants. To function properly and efficiently, the policies that motivate bureaucratic behaviors must be commonsensical and adjusted competently and carefully under the guise of wisdom and restraint, as the credibility of the U.S. immigration policy—and its ability to balance openness with order—depends on it. [...]

President Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order is Teed Up for the Supreme Court

March 31, 2025

President Trump’s executive order challenging birthright citizenship is teed up for consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court, where the justices will likely determine whether it aligns with or contradicts the longstanding interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. [...]

Environmental Groups Petition Supreme Court to Halt Construction of Border Wall

May 15, 2020

One of the most hotly politicized issues in the United States this year is whether the President has the authority to direct the construction of a wall on the southern border between the United States and Mexico. Passionate arguments arose from all sides of the issue, and even made its way through the court system. In 2019, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration has the authority to redirect funds allocated to the military towards construction of a border wall. However, [...]

The potential demise of DACA

September 15, 2017

President Trump unexpectedly terminated an Obama-era program protecting young, undocumented immigrants from deportation. Now all eyes are on Congress to decide the fate of these “dreamers” in the next six months. [...]

U.S. Supreme Court lays down the law on a deportation loophole

June 12, 2017

The Supreme Court of the United States issued a unanimous decision on May 17, 2017, in Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions, in favor of a lawful Mexican immigrant on the premise that federal law was inappropriately applied in attempts to justify deportation. [...]