Michael Kagan In The News

Documented
The Biden administration has filed notice to appeal a Manhattan federal judge’s groundbreaking order that limited immigrant detentions by instructing the government to provide court hearings for immigration detainees within 10 days of their arrest.
K.N.P.R. News
“Dreamers” are undocumented young people looking for a path to citizenship.
U.S.A. Today
Even after Joe Biden was sworn in on Jan. 20 as the nation's 46th president, many conspiracy theorists and social media users have continued to promote baseless claims of widespread election fraud to argue that the election was stolen.
Nevada Business
The UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law’s Middle Eastern Law Students Association plans to present a Diversity in Practice Panel Zoom discussion focused on Middle Eastern and South Asian representation in the legal profession at 6:30 p.m. on March 2.
Las Vegas Sun
The biggest obstacle to getting undocumented immigrants in Las Vegas vaccinated against COVID-19 might not be fear of the shot, but the unwarranted fear of being outed to federal authorities, advocates said.
The Nevada Independent
It was late in the afternoon of Oct. 19 when Victor Cordón was driving a four-wheeler on the side of a road in Amargosa Valley, doing his daily trash run for a small farm he had been working at for three months.
Mother Jones
This month, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), a Department of Justice division that oversees immigration courts and judges, issued its latest update to its previous report, “Myths vs Facts About Immigration Proceedings.” The 10-page document attempts to debunk what they describe as 29 myths about asylum claims, legal representation, video hearings, and the performance and decisions by immigration judges. What it appears to have accomplished instead, according to immigration lawyers and advocates, is to further underscore the reality of how politicized and flawed the immigration system is—and has been throughout the Trump administration.
The Nevada Independent
Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s office announced Friday evening that it has “yet to see any evidence of wide-spread fraud” in the state’s 2020 election, an indirect rebuke of unsupported claims of mass voter fraud made by President Donald Trump and Nevada Republicans.