Speakers
Zhixian Liu, Partner, Z Liu Law Group, P.C.
Susan Song, Senior Associate, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
Rose Cuison-Villazor, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
Moderator
Gaurav Mukherjee, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, UConn School of Law
Description
With the second Trump Administration, U.S. immigration policy is undergoing sweeping changes through executive orders, presidential memoranda, and agency rulemaking. These developments are reshaping the landscape of immigration law and practice, impacting both individual and corporate stakeholders. This program, offered jointly by the Immigration Law Committee and the Academic Committee, will offer a timely overview of the evolving legal and policy environment and assess its real-world implications for immigrant communities and legal practitioners. In addition to practical insights from immigration lawyers, the program will feature law professors who will provide a broader academic and constitutional perspective, offering context on the legal theories, due process implications, and potential litigation trajectories stemming from Trump-era immigration policies.
Topics to be discussed include:
One Big Beautiful Bill and the immigration and border enforcement
Due Process for Immigrants: Ongoing legal challenges to expedited removal, credible fear screenings, and the erosion of procedural protections in immigration courts.
Visa Adjudication Trends: Increased scrutiny and delays in the adjudication of both immigrant and nonimmigrant visas, and how changing standards affect businesses and individuals alike.
Corporate Compliance in Uncertain Times: Strategic guidance for business clients navigating evolving compliance obligations, site visits, and audits.
Red Flags at the Border: Advising clients facing heightened travel restrictions, CBP’s expanded discretionary powers at ports of entry, and the growing use of digital device searches.
Impacts on Individuals and Families: A focus on F-1 visa revocations, the role of nationwide injunctions, and federal court litigation involving DACA, TPS, and parole programs.
Investment-Based Immigration: The future of the EB-5 visa program and analysis of emerging proposals such as a U.S. “gold card.”
Humanitarian Pathways Under Threat: Legislative and executive branch developments affecting asylum, humanitarian parole, TPS, and refugee admissions.
AANHPI Communities and Structural Disparities: How immigration policy shifts under Trump 2.0 are uniquely impacting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities legally, politically, and socially.
The panel aims to bridge practice and theory, offering a nuanced understanding of how legal rules, enforcement discretion, and political rhetoric converge to shape immigration outcomes.