The Court Is Now in Session: The Growing Role of Litigation to Shape Legal and Policy Developments
Channel: Migration Policy Institute
Date: 2022-11-01

In a trend that began several administrations ago and has dramatically accelerated, opponents of the administration in power have been heading to court to block immigration policies and rulemaking. During the Biden administration, red state elected officials have turned to the courts to block changes to interior enforcement, the end of the Migrant Protection Protocols, the use of prosecutorial discretion, and more.

​How are court rulings affecting the Biden agenda, and how is the administration responding? What do recent Supreme Court decisions, including on DACA, suggest for the future? And what have been the impacts and politics of states banding together in litigation against administrations of the opposing party? Beyond turning to the courts, Texas has asserted a muscular role in immigration enforcement, spending billions of dollars on a border operation, busing migrants to Washington, DC and New York, and more. In the continued absence of action by Congress, will more states rush in to fill the power vacuum?
 
Moderator: Muzaffar Chishti, MPI Senior Fellow and Director of the MPI office at New York University School of Law
Speakers:
Kristie De Peña, Vice President of Policy and Director of Immigration, Niskanen Center
Suzanne Gamboa, Senior National Reporter, NBC Latino
Cristina Rodríguez, Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law, Yale Law School

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