Where does the United States send someone who is being deported? One would think that the question of “country of removal” would be a central point of an immigration court removal proceeding. However, country of removal is frequently decided in seconds during one of the first preliminary hearings. Although noncitizens have the first opportunity to […]

On the first day of his second administration, President Trump issued an executive order purporting to restrict citizenship of U.S.-born children based on their parents’ citizenship or immigration status. In the process, the order discriminates between mothers and fathers and adopts genetic definitions of “mother” and “father” to exclude any parent who is not the […]

The rendition of 288 Venezuelan and Salvadoran men to the Salvadoran mega-prison known as CECOT tore a hole in the fabric of the American legal system. The intention behind the presidential proclamation authorizing the renditions seems to have been to send these men, many of whom had no criminal convictions and crossed the border in […]

Citizenship is often portrayed as an essential legal and social status: people define themselves by where they come from, and where they can always return. However, citizenship revocation—a method of involuntarily stripping an individual of their citizenship, for reasons such as counter-terrorism— turns this notion on its head. To frame how the practice of revocation […]