Social Movements & the Law

President Trump's long-promised border wall is igniting a fight over public lands in Arizona that could be adversely impacted by the construction of barriers that will most-likely alter the landscape in areas treasured by locals and nature lovers.

Victim’s identity and country of origin has not been released yet but he was likely an undocumented migrant, authorities say

Contractors replacing the wall are pushing old metal to the Mexican side of Arizona's border, where it's being sold, witnesses told local news.

For the first time, scientists have mapped out the groundwater the two countries share.

In her Brookings Essay, "The Wall," Brookings Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown explains the true costs of building a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Nogales residents say the city is struggling amid the pandemic and after years of Trump painting the area as a ‘war zone’

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — On a dirt road past rows of date trees, just feet from a dry section of Colorado River, a small construction crew is putting up a towering border wall that the government hopes will reduce — for good — the flow of immigrants who cross the U...

The Border Patrol detonated explosives on sacred Native American lands while tribal leaders were testifying against the desecration in Washington, D.C.

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The Trump administration broke ground next to a church and gravesites that are part of an important chapter in the history of the Underground Railroad.

The Trump administration announced plans to erect 150 miles of barrier on the southern border, involving large numbers of contractors from across the country

Vanda Felbab-Brown outlines the harmful effects of the U.S.-Mexico border wall being built by the Trump administrative on Native Mexican communities, highly sensitive natural environments and biodiversity, and water sustainability in Mexico.

The federal government is proceeding with plans for a border wall even as communities where construction is ongoing protest the presence of workers.

A federal judge in Arizona on Monday settled a lawsuit filed against the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection, saying the agencies failed to study potential harms to the environment from increased enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border.

A few dozen people gathered Friday to protest new border wall going up along Arizona's last free-flowing river.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday that it will begin work to address the risks of flooding and soil erosion from unfinished sections of the wall on the U...

The idea of weaponizing the border reaches back to at least the 1970s, when the U.S. began to turn its attention away from the Vietnam War.

Cochise County officials and conservationists are frustrated that Customs and Border Protection is ignoring local input as it pushes ahead with a barrier across the San Pedro River, which flows north from Mexico and is one of the last undammed rivers in the Southwest.

Contractors continue to install new border barriers across the U.S.-Mexico border, including many across sensitive lands, including Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge and Cabeza Prieta National Monument.

President Biden is canceling projects to build a wall along the southern border using diverted defense funds and will use some funding to counter environmental damage from the wall’s con…

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing backlash from conservatives for not having visited the southern border and from progressives for telling immigrants "Do not come."

Federal law rules the land when it comes to border enforcement, but local governments can help.

When President Barack Obama introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2012, it was a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the country illegally as children, so-called “Dreamers.”But for many of the years since, it has been in legal limbo — challenged in the courts, thrown out by the Trump administration — but so far, it’s survived.Now, the future of the program known as DACA lies in the hands of an appeals court panel of judges in New Orleans.

The Supreme Court’s DACA decision is seen as a huge political loss for President Trump. It is anything but.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, the second stunning election-season rebuke from the court in a week after its ruling that it's a href="https://apnews...

Arizona joined 12 other states this week that asked the Supreme Court to roll back the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which they say has caused "irreparable harm" to their states.

Bloomberg Law, Case and Controversies podcast interviewed Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration’s Director of Policy and Communications, Jose Magaña- Salgado about the forthcoming SCOTUS hearing on DACA and the Alliance’s higher ed. amicus brief. Listen to the episode here.  TweetShareSharePin0 Shares

WASHINGTON – After the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration acted illegally in its attempt to eliminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program which protects approximately 10,000 Dreamers in the Central Valley, Representative Josh Harder (CA-10) asked United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to clarify its plans for the future of the program and abandon efforts to sidestep the Supreme Court Ruling.

The fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has ping ponged between all three branches of government. But with the Supreme Court poised to decide DACA's future in spring 2020, Congress may finally be forced to act to resolve the status of DREAMers after nearly two decades of considering various DREAM Act bills. Could this break the long stalemate Congress has had on passing substantive immigration legislation, and pave the way for other actions?