I’m thrilled to share that my project, Punishment Externalities and the Prison Tax, forthcoming in the California Law Review, won the AALS Criminal Law Section Junior Scholars Paper Competition. Thank you to everyone that has supported this project. Check it out at bitly.ws/wRjm

Very excited to see this almost in print! Great editing work by @profmohapatra and @ProfLWiley, and outstanding list of contributors (my rewritten opinion is NFIB v. Sebelius). Cambridge University Press - Academic Cambridge University Press cambridge.org/core/books/fem…

Check out this thought-provoking article and video about high rates of #dementia in South #Texas - Rio Grande Valley Is at Epicenter of Alzheimer’s Spike Among Latinos - Public Health Watch publichealthwatch.org/2023/02/02/rio…

Proud of our outstanding students!

Based on docs we obtained through FOIA litigation, Project South The CCR is on bsky (@ccrjustice.org) Southern Poverty Law Center have released a Briefing Guide detailing racism against Black migrants and heightened deportations and exclusions of & violence towards Black migrants. Access the guide: projectsouth.org/wp-content/upl…

Looking forward to speaking on e-carceration of asylum seekers San Diego State University with Laura Rivera Just Futures Law and Mario Perez Resist.

Celebrating the incredible legacy of Deborah Anker, @HLS_Immigration, and Harvard Crimmigration Clinic at Harvard Law School

[3] CREEC helped organize a group of scholars (Amelia Wilson, Elizabeth Jordan, Fatma Marouf, Jamelia Morgan, @katperez84, Marisol Orihuela, Nermeen Saba Arastu, Sarah Sherman-Stokes (she/her)). W/ pro-bono partners K&L Gates LLP, CREEC represents them as "friends of the court" in support of National Immigrant Justice Center's client.

An unprecedented rise 📈 The U.S. News & World Report rankings are in, and Texas A&M University School of Law now ranks in the top 30 nationally. hubs.li/Q01PsLK20

Excited to join the board of ACLU of Texas, which is doing important work on immigrants’ rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, bail reform and more: aclutx.org

The Climate Displaced Persons Act, introduced yesterday, is a real advance in US approach to climate displacement. Read about it here in a piece I wrote with Jocelyn Perry justsecurity.org/90135/a-new-bi…

Celebrating the Binger Center for New Americans’ 10th Anniversary @UofMNLawSchool. Grateful to my co-panelists, @nanguiano_23 and NIPNLG Rebecca Scholtz, for their brilliant litigation on Notices to Appear and the discussion of procedural (un)fairness in removal proceedings.

The article that Vanessa Casado Pérez and I wrote about the new wave of state “alien land laws” with nationality based restrictions on who can own property is forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…. Grateful to Texas A&M School of Law for research support.

Excited about our legal clinic’s new collaboration with DOJ to help women at the federal prison camp in Bryan, TX apply for social security disability benefits to facilitate reentry. justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…

Shout out from Acting Associate Attorney General Benjamin Mizer for Brook Bell, director of Texas A&M School of Law’s Medical Legal Partnership, during a reentry simulation in DC. justice.gov/opa/speech/act…

Happy that our essay on Congress’s authority to certify U visas has been published in the Columbia Law Review Forum. This came out of work with two incredible clinicians and scholars, Sabi Ardalan and Elora Mukherjee columbialawreview.org/content/congre…