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Daily Immigration News Clips – April 30, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 30, 2025.

4/30/25
Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 29, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 29, 2025.

4/29/25
Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 28, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 28, 2025.

4/28/25
AILA Blog

Think Immigration: Biohacking for Beginners (and Everybody Else): Welcome to Well-Being Week in Law 2025!

AILA Well-Being Committee Member Sara Mailander highlights what's coming next week for AILA's Well-Being Week in Law 2025 and how biohacking, or “leveraging strategic habits and behaviors to optimize the way your brain works and to improve your overall wellness” can help.

4/28/25 AILA Doc. No. 25042800. Well-Being
Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 25, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 25, 2025.

4/25/25
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AILA President Welcomes ICE’s Reversal of Student Visa Terminations

AILA President Kelli Stump welcomed news that due to litigation efforts by myriad AILA members and organizations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reinstating international students’ records.

4/25/25 AILA Doc. No. 25042504.
AILA Blog

Think Immigration: Why We Will Win: The Power of Unity, Diversity, and Defiance in Immigration Advocacy

In this blog post, Andrew Nietor urges his fellow AILA members to stand together, writing “Whether you’re a solo practitioner in a rural town, a nonprofit advocate in a border community, or part of a large firm in a big city—your voice and your work matter. We need each other more than ever.”

4/24/25 AILA Doc. No. 25042403.
Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 24, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 24, 2025.

4/24/25 AILA Doc. No. 25042407.
Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 23, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 23, 2025.

4/23/25
Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 22, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 22, 2025.

4/22/25
Immigration News

CNN News18: 4,700 Students Targeted in U.S. by ICE, Half Are Indian

CNN News18 features an interview with AILA Senior Director of Government Relations Sharvari Dalal-Dheini about the recent surge in U.S. student visa revocations.

Immigration News

CNN: Lawsuits Seek to Restore Dozens of Foreign Students' Legal Status amid Targeting by Immigration Authorities

CNN reports on lawsuits alleging that the Trump Administration unlawfully stripped scores of foreign students of their legal status. Some students have brought individual cases, and at least two federal lawsuits aim to represent large swaths of students at once.

Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 21, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 21, 2025.

4/21/25 AILA Doc. No. 25042132.
Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 18, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 18, 2025.

4/18/25
AILA Blog

Think Immigration: You Know Who Warned Us About Trump Hundreds of Years Ago? Alexander Hamilton

As due process is under attack, AILA member Matt Maiona reflects on his career as an immigration attorney, the calling he feels to this work, and urges all of us to "stand against the threats to liberty and heed the warning that Alexander Hamilton himself left us."

4/17/25
Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 17, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 17, 2025.

4/17/25
Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 16, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 16, 2025.

4/16/25
Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 15, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 15, 2025.

4/15/25
Immigration News

Bloomberg Law: Lawsuits Over Foreign Students' Status Find Solid Legal Footing

Bloomberg Law reports on a slew of lawsuits filed in the past two weeks arguing that DHS unilaterally removed dozens of students from a database tracking compliance with student visa programs, effectively canceling their legal status.

AILA Blog

Think Immigration: When Is a Law Journal Issue More Than a Law Journal Issue?

AILA Law Journal Editor-in-Chief Cyrus Mehta highlights the newest issue (free to AILA members) and the recent symposium, describing why focusing on ethics was key, writing that the issue "can offer important knowledge to take with you into any situation you and your client face."

AILA Doc. No. 25041438. Ethics
Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 14, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 14, 2025.

4/14/25
Immigration News

New York Times: Pressuring Migrants to 'Self-Deport,' White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers

The Trump Administration has revoked the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants allowed into the country under the Biden Administration. Now, to pressure some of those immigrants and others who had legal status to "self-deport," it is canceling the SSNs they lawfully obtained.

Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 11, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 11, 2025.

4/11/25
AILA Blog

Taxation → Deportation Without Representation

Mo Goldman from the AILA Media Advocacy Committee highlights the concerns and potential damage caused by the IRS sharing data with DHS, especially given immigrants’ good faith efforts to pay taxes despite being undocumented.

4/10/25 AILA Doc. No. 25041006.
Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 10, 2025

Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 10, 2025.

4/10/25