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AILA Presents Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network with the 2026 Michael Maggio Memorial Pro Bono Award
AILA recognizes the Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network (GAIN) with the 2026 Michael Maggio Memorial Pro Bono Award for outstanding efforts in providing pro bono representation in the immigration field.
Daily Immigration News Clips - June 5, 2026
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on June 5, 2026.
Think Immigration: It Is So Clear Why We Need Fair, Independent, and Efficient Immigration Courts
AILA Media Advocacy Committee Chair Shannon Shepherd describes some of the ways the Trump Administration has undermined due process in the immigration courts and encourages readers to take action and tell Congress it is clear we need an independent immigration court system.
Daily Immigration News Clips - June 4, 2026
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on June 4, 2026.
AILA Presents Ko Lyn Cheang and St. John Barned-Smith with the 2026 Media Leadership Award
AILA recognizes Ko Lyn Cheang and St. John Barned-Smith of the San Francisco Chronicle with the 2026 Media Leadership Award, given to individuals whose efforts in the media most accurately depict immigration and immigrants.
Think Immigration: Using Loper Bright to Advocate for Your Clients in Immigration Cases
AILA Rule of Law Task Force Member Cyrus Mehta urges immigration lawyers to “weave Loper Bright into everyday practice” as the decision “can help reorient immigration law toward closer adherence to statutory text and, indirectly, toward more humane outcomes, even in an era of renewed restriction.”
AILA Presents K. Catherine Walker with the 2026 Joseph Minsky Young Lawyer Award
AILA recognizes K. Catherine Walker with the 2026 Joseph Minsky Young Lawyer Award for her outstanding contributions made as a young lawyer in the field of immigration and nationality law.
Daily Immigration News Clips - June 3, 2026
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on June 3, 2026.
Daily Immigration News Clips - June 2, 2026
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on June 2, 2026.
NJ Spotlight News: ‘Black box’: Trump Administration Moves to Wipe Out ICE Watchdog
The Administration’s latest budget request to Congress would cut all funding and staff for the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman. AILA Senior Director of Government Relations Greg Chen emphasized that as the detained population has exploded, DHS oversight agencies are being wiped out.
AILA Presents Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg and Alexander Smith with the 2026 Jack Wasserman Memorial Award
AILA recognizes Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg and Alexander Smith with the 2026 Jack Wasserman Memorial Award for excellence in litigation in the field of immigration law. Each winner was nominated for their superlative legal skills and impact through litigation.
AILA Presents Rebecca Scholtz with the 2026 Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award
AILA recognizes Rebecca Scholtz with the 2026 Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for excellence in advancing the practice of immigration law.
Daily Immigration News Clips - June 1, 2026
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on June 1, 2026.
Deseret News (Opinion): A New Immigration Law Memo Undermines 74 Years of Intent
In an op-ed, Charles Kuck, former AILA President, “This administration cannot pass an immigration law to its liking. What it can do is make existing law so difficult to access that it ceases to function in practice. That is what this memo attempts.”
AILA Presents the Asylum Law Clinic at Southwestern Law School with the 2026 Arthur C. Helton Memorial Human Rights Award
AILA recognizes the Asylum Law Clinic at Southwestern Law School with the 2026 Arthur C. Helton Human Rights Award for outstanding service in advancing the cause of human rights.
Daily Immigration News Clips - May 29, 2026
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on May 29, 2026.
Think Immigration: When Chaos Is the Strategy: Recognizing the Patterns
AILA Board Member Andrew Nietor writes about how AILA's strength is that "as immigration attorneys, and as an AILA community, we work at the intersection of law, policy, and humanity" helping to identify patterns of policy changes and collectively respond.
Miami Herald (Editorial): Under Trump’s New Green Card Rules, Miami’s Legal Immigrants Have Fewer Options
The Miami Herald Editorial Board writes that the Trump Administration “is playing a cruel game with people trying to become legal immigrants.” According to former AILA President Ira Kurzban, “I think this is just another attempt to basically end the immigration system in the United States.”
Daily Immigration News Clips - May 28, 2026
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on May 28, 2026.
AILA Presents Angelo Paparelli with the 2026 Advocacy Award
AILA recognizes Angelo Paparelli with the 2026 Advocacy Award for outstanding efforts in support of AILA’s advocacy agenda.
Think Immigration: Why I Wrote About the Major Questions Doctrine and Expedited Removal and Why It Matters Now
AILA Law Journal author Catherine Tanihu explains what drove her to write about the Major Questions Doctrine and ICE's expansion of expedited removal, writing that her "article argues it’s time to apply the same scrutiny to DHS that we’re applying everywhere else."
Daily Immigration News Clips - May 27, 2026
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on May 27, 2026.
Think Immigration: Has Civility in the Immigration Courts Reached Rock Bottom?
In this blog post, AILA AROL Task Force Member Kevin Bank describes how "deterioration of civility further erodes the rule of law" in immigration court, and how the experience of Helen Suzman, an opposition politician in South Africa during apartheid, inspires him to stay strong despite adversity.
Washington Post: Trump Administration Begins Making New Requests of Green-card Applicants
Discussing USCIS’s new adjustment of status memo, AILA President Jeff Joseph told the Washington Post, “We’re already seeing it filter down to the field office ... This is another method of putting cogs in the wheel to try and shut down legal immigration.”
Associated Press: Trump’s Latest Immigration Move Clouds Path to Green Cards
In a recent Associated Press article, Shev Dalal-Dheini, AILA Senior Director of Government Relations, underscored that it is difficult for practitioners to provide generalized legal advice about the memo and noted, “It’s going to be a very case by case specific thing.”