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Immigration Law

HB 1105: Criminal Alien Track and Report Act of 2024

The Act authorizes state law enforcement to verify suspects’ immigration statuses, requires that local government agencies cooperate with federal immigration authorities, and mandates detailed, consistent reporting on non-citizen inmates. It aims to promote public safety, enhance state immigration laws such that they align with federal immigration laws, and ensure that

Deference Condoning Apathy: Social Visibility in the Eleventh Circuit

This Note examines the history of the social-visibility requirement for Particular Social Groups in Eleventh Circuit asylum claims and the adjudication disparities that have resulted from its imposition in the southeastern United States. Part I of this Note introduces the asylum application process, examines the historical treatment of Particular Social

Deporting Families: Legal Matter or Political Question?

Last year 245,424 noncitizens were removed from the United States, and courts played virtually no role in ensuring that these decisions did not violate individual substantive rights like freedom of speech, substantive due process, or retroactivity. Had these individuals been deported from a European country, domestic and regional courts

The Following Article Addresses a Package of Immigration Bills That Would Have Affected a Variety of Titles in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated

HR 256 - The resolution would have proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Georgia to bar undocumented immigrants from the following: receiving any public services provided by the state, receiving any publicly funded health care services provided by the state, accessing public elementary and secondary schools