On April 29, the Supreme Court will hear arguments deciding the futures of TPS for Haiti, Syria, and possibly over 1.3 million people. Families, futures, and decades of contributions are on the line. We’re fighting to protect TPS holders and the rule of law
Flashback to last week in Sacramento. CILP's Faculty Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura, Deputy Director Talia Inlender, and students from the Immigrants' Rights Policy Clinic (IRPC) joined the California Immigrant Policy Center's Immigrant Day of Action 2026.
Wed, May 6, 12 pm PT
👉🏽 What role should litigation play in the immigrants’ rights movement in our present moment? Join us for a conversation with Stephen W. Manning @innovationlawlab.bsky.social & other leading immigrants’ rights litigators addressing this & other questions. bit.ly/litigationev...
We're proud to stand with International Refugee Assistance Project, Muslim Advocates, Van Der Hout LLP, @uclacilp.bsky.social, @ndlon.bsky.social, @aclu.org, our incredible plaintiffs, and so many others to make our case at the highest court in the land.
Check out @nytimes.com piece by veteran SCOTUS reporter Linda Greenhouse that takes a look at the legal issues before the U.S. Supreme Court in the upcoming TPS case. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/o...
👉🏽Check out CILP’s Faculty Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura’s insights about current birthright citizenship discourse in light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara. americancommunitymedia.org/media-briefi...
📍Wed, May 6, 12 pm PT
⚖️ Does Litigation Matter?
👉🏽 What role should litigation play in the immigrants’ rights movement in our present moment? Join CILP for a conversation with Alina Das & other leading immigrants’ rights litigators addressing this & other questions.
🔗Register bit.ly/litigationev...
📌SAVE THE DATE
May 6, 2026 12pm PT
Join the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law (UCLA) for a conversation between leading immigrants' rights litigators bit.ly/litigationev...
Yesterday, CILP’s Faculty Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura,
Deputy Director Talia Inlender & @law.ucla.edu students w/ the Immigrants' Rights Policy Clinic and Immigrant Family Legal Clinic (ImmFam) participated in UCLA Law's clinical fair.
Students shared their experiences working with the clinics.
🗣HAPPENING NEXT WEEK
"Borders in Times of Instability: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation with Luwei Ying and Hiroshi Motomura"
Apr. 14 at 12 pm
RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📍Save the date: Wednesday May 6, 2026
⚖️ Does Litigation Matter?
👉🏽 What role should litigation play in the immigrants’ rights movement in our present moment? Has the answer changed from years past? Join CILP for a conversation between leading immigrants' rights litigators.
bit.ly/litigationev...
🗣️Check out this @vpm.org /PBS story about ICE agents at the nation’s airports. ✈️
👉🏽CILP’s Faculty Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura offers insight about how ICE agents’ powers expanded under Trump administration.
www.vpm.org/npr-news/npr...
Check out this @wsj.com piece about birthright citizenship with insight from CILP Faculty Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
🗣️GOOD NEWS: DACA Recipient Returned Home
Check out @apnews.com story w/ insight from CILP’s Deputy Director Talia Inlender.
Per @unitedwedream.org Maria’s return marks a victory at a time when close to 300 DACA recipients have been detained & close to 90 deported. apnews.com/article/depo...
👉Learn about the history of the legal battle to preserve TPS during the first Trump administration and today.
Watch "Almost American." 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVf...
🗣️Supreme Court to consider whether
Trump can end protected status
for Syrians, Haitians. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Supreme Court Takes Up TPS Cases on Expedited Timeline
More details here: law.ucla.edu/academics/ce...
⚖️CASE UPDATE: NTPSA v. Noem
A federal court of appeals has rejected a request to reconsider its decision that the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for individuals from Venezuela and Haiti was unlawful. Full details: bit.ly/4s9ZccR
🗣️Check out this piece by @lapublicpress about undocumented college students fight to access campus jobs. CILP’s Faculty Co-Director Ahilan Arulanantham represents students as counsel in Muñoz, et al v. Regents University of California
lapublicpress.org/2026/03/la-i...
Check out this piece by @phoenixnewtimes.com about the Trump administration using a Cold War-era law to crack down on immigrants. The reporting features insight from CILP's Faculty Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura.
👉Check out this piece by @dailybruinan.bsky.social about students' call for UCLA to adopt a sanctuary campus title amid immigration crackdown, featuring insight from CILP's Deputy Director Talia Inlender. dailybruin.com/2026/03/04/s...
BREAKING: 180+ former federal & state judges—from both parties—filed an amicus brief warning of WH attempts to turn SCOTUS shadow docket into settled law.
The same officials attacking judges now want SCOTUS to punish the courts for ruling against them.
🗣️CASE UPDATE: Fanfan v. Noem
Check out this update regarding this ongoing litigation impacting people re-detained during check-ins in the Southern District of California.
Learn more: bit.ly/fanfanclassc...
🎙️ON AIR:
ICE is looking to expand detention centers, including in California. We're talking to @uclacilp.bsky.social's Ahilan Arulanantham, California Assemblyman @matthaneysf.bsky.social and @calmatters.org's @wendyfry.bsky.social about the legal landscape.
❓What are your Qs?
📻Listen:
🗣 CASE UPDATE: Fanfan v. Noem
⚖Attorneys File for Class Certification, Seek to Block ICE Re-Detention Practice at Check-In Appointments in the Southern District of California
👉Learn more: bit.ly/fanfanclassc...
Today, CILP and @migdepcolmex.bsky.social jointly released “Moving Beyond Externalization in the U.S.-Mexico Relationship” a paper that proposes ways to reimagine the U.S.-Mexico relationship with respect to migration.
👉Report: bit.ly/beyondextern...
📌Be sure to RSVP
We are looking forward to this discussion with @migdepcolmex.bsky.social
✍🏾 Recuerden registrarse: ucla.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
¡Es mañana! 👇✨
👉🏽Check out this @newyorker.com story quoting CILP’s Faculty Co-Director Ahilan Arulanantham:
"Trump Is Still Deporting People Wherever He Wants." The piece is about how the Trump Admin. is overwhelming federal courts & getting away with third-country removals. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
