By Elica Semnani, Staff Writer Photo Courtesy of Elica Semnani On a cold, fall Friday morning, drawn by curiosity, I walked toward the growing prayer group in front of the Southside ICE building. The prayer group consisted of men and women, predominately senior, bundled up together to share their message […]
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Pay to Stay? Lawsuit Moves to Relieve H-1B Fees
By: Kaushik Srinath, Staff Writer Photo Courtesy of pixabay.com On September 19, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation, requiring a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications, going into effect in 36 hours after signing. The decision was made citing the H-1B visa program had “been deliberately exploited to […]
Prayers for (Due) Process
By Elica Semnani, Staff Writer Photo courtesy of Elica Semnani As I rush to catch my bus early on Friday mornings, I pass by a group walking the opposite way towards Sidney Street. Every Friday without fail, the group is equipped with signs and banners reading “Due Process 4 Immigrants” […]
History Repeats Itself With the Alien Enemies Act of 1798
By Amisha Patel, Staff Writer On March 15, 2025, President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 for the first time since World War II.[1] The decision to invoke this act was made in part with the aim to deport individuals allegedly associated with the Venezuelan gang, Tren de […]
Federal Courts Play Legal Ping Pong With Texas’ Controversial Immigration Bill
By Danny Kennedy, Staff Writer Photo Courtesy of Pixabay.com In 2023, Texas legislators approved Senate Bill 4 (“S.B. 4”), which would allow for Texas law enforcement to arrest any individual illegally crossing the Mexican border.[1] Initially, S.B. 4 was supposed to go into effect on March 5, 2024, but the […]
Census Count 2020: A Legal Battlefield
Photo provided courtesy of unsplash.com By Shreya Desai, Staff Writer The Unites States Constitution mandates that Congress carry out a census every ten years, counting each person residing within the country and its territories. [1] The count is to be conducted by a non-partisan government agency, the United States Census […]
Juris Magazine Summer 2020
Letter from the Editor In January, when the e-board settled on “The Environment” as a theme for the Summer 2020 issue of Juris, none of us could have predicted the challenge that nature would present to us this year. Environmental law is often treated peripherally in the United States. The […]
U.S. Border Arrests at an 11-year High: Due Process Concerns as U.S. Seeks to Expedite Migrant Deportations
By Emma Hurst, Staff Writer In September 2019, there were 52,546 arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border, the lowest it has been this year.[1] The number of arrests decreased 64% since May, just five months prior.[2] However, within the fiscal year that concluded in September, border arrests reached an 11-year high […]
District Court Rules No Citizenship Question on 2020 Census
By: David Zvirman, Staff Writer Over the past few months, the Department of Commerce’s (DOC) decision to add a citizenship question to the upcoming 2020 census sparked a lot of debate.[1] This debate culminated on January 15, 2019, when New York District Judge Jesse Furman struck down the DOC’s […]
Immigration Court Backlog Surpasses One Million Cases
By: Margaret Potter, Staff Writer Two years after taking office, the Trump administration enforced quotas on immigration judges in 2018 requiring each judge “…to clear seven hundred cases a year or get docked points on their performance evaluations.”[1] In addition to this burden on immigration judges, then Attorney General […]