Michael Kagan In The News

The American Prospect
On July 6, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement announced stunning new guidelines for colleges and universities preparing to return to classes in the fall during the pandemic. ICE said that international students whose universities go all-online in the fall would not be able to remain in the United States.
The New York Times
Jack Miralrio and his younger brother, Owen, were born in Mexico and brought to the United States illegally by their mother when they were little. Growing up, both enjoyed video games, soccer and building toy cars. Both excelled at school.
Las Vegas Review Journal
For more than three months, Astrid Silva has grudgingly carried out a new routine: Waking up at 5:30 a.m. to check if she can still legally work and live in the only home she’s known since childhood.
Documented
After Gustavo Alzate, a 34-year-old property manager for a New York real estate firm, was arrested by federal agents, they brought him to a New Jersey jail to await his immigration court hearing. He used a jailhouse hotline to call into the court every day to try and figure out when his hearing would be. “For a long time, I was told there was no record of my case or me with the court,” he later said in court papers. “No one ever told me when my notice to appear form was filed with the court.”
The Nevada Independent
A longtime Las Vegas resident and construction worker who has spent months in immigration detention after arrests for minor infractions that were quickly dismissed is suing Las Vegas police and Sheriff Joe Lombardo for their role in landing him in deportation proceedings.
The Hill
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employee who captained a detention center in Nevada has been fired for alleged ties to a neo-Nazi website, according to a Vice investigation.
Buzzfeed News
Joe Biden, in a swing through Nevada on Saturday, continued to face tough questions and criticism about his defense of the Obama administration’s mass deportations — but that might not stop him from winning Latino votes in the state.
Nevada Current
Vice News reported this week that a local captain at a U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement facility in Pahrump wrote numerous posts on a white supremacist Internet group. While calling facts reported by Vice disturbing, Michael Kagan, the director of UNLV’s immigration clinic, said the problem is much bigger than one person.