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Title 42 block suggests ruling ‘was never properly in place’

November 16, 2022

A federal judge has blocked the Title 42 immigration policy that allowed border agents to rapidly expel migrants without letting them seek asylum. Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer says the court's reasoning supports the contention that Title 42 was a political, anti-migrant move rather than a public health policy. 

Law and Policy
Law School

DACA anniversary not a milestone to celebrate, but a call to action

June 16, 2022

Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, professor of law at Cornell Law School, comments on the 10 year anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. 

Law and Policy

Texas threat to revisit SCOTUS case could be ‘catastrophic’

May 6, 2022

Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, professor of immigration law at the Cornell Law School, discusses potential implications of Roe v. Wade on immigration law. 

Law and Policy

Cornell experts on SCOTUS, abortion rights

May 4, 2022

Cornell experts react to the leaked SCOTUS opinion that would overturn the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade.

Law and Policy

With deportation freeze setback, Biden must engage with ICE

February 24, 2021

Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, professor of immigration law and director of Cornell University’s Immigration Law and Advocacy Clinic, says the court strike-down of the Biden administration's proposed 100-day moratorium on deportations means that it engage more effectively with ICE on conducting deportations.

Law and Policy
Law School

Cornell immigration experts available on farmworkers, DACA

March 18, 2021

Cornell University experts available to weigh in on immigration legislation up for a vote in the House of Representatives.

Law and Policy
Agriculture and Life Sciences

Experts list: U.S. Congress to consider immigration

February 18, 2021

Cornell University experts are available to weigh in on Congress taking up either Biden's immigration wide-ranging bill or smaller pieces of legislation, offering historical, legal and labor perspectives.

Law and Policy
Industrial and Labor Relations
Arts and Sciences
Law School

SCOTUS ruling won’t end the DACA saga

June 19, 2020

Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, professor of immigration law at the Cornell Law School, says that the decision of the Court stems from a need for the administration to consider alternatives to a policy upon which Americans rely.

Law and Policy

Biden immigration bill brings promise and peril

February 18, 2021

Cornell experts weigh in on the Biden administration's immigration bill, released in concert with Congressional leaders this week.

Law and Policy
Arts and Sciences
Industrial and Labor Relations
Human Ecology
Law School

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