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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy

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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy (Miñana Center) at the UCLA School of Law | A hub for immigration scholarship + advocacy. For post details and updates: bio.site/uclaminana

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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@uclacilp.bsky.social The Miñana Center’s Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura was at the University of San Diego to deliver the Nathaniel L. Nathanson Memorial Lecture discussing immigration in today’s world.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Season 3, Episode 2: International Students uclaminana.substack.com/p/season-3-e...
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Season 3, Episode 2: International Students
This episode looks at recent actions and policies taken by the Trump administration that are having significant impacts on international students and US higher education in general, an appropriate top...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Save the date📌: Oct. 21. Join a panel of experts who will discuss approaches for challenging detention practices.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SCOTUS to review mandatory detention policy, AI detectors, CNN gubernatorial debate and more bit.ly/4hAUa4P
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SCOTUS to review mandatory detention policy, AI detectors, CNN gubernatorial debate and more
Listen to the Center’s Deputy Director Talia Inlender on Air Talk. https://bit.ly/4hAUa4P
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Death and despair in an ICE detention center near you uclaminana.substack.com/p/death-and-...
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Death and despair in an ICE detention center near you
That's by design, as the Trump administration ignores inhumane conditions in its campaign to force immigrants to "self-deport." California lawsuits are battling the crisis, but lawmakers can do more.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DHS is trying to defend its unlawful stop of a U.S. citizen in Illinois by pointing to a U.S. Supreme Court shadow docket order. The Miñana Center's Co-Director Ahilan Arulanantham spoke to Newsweek about these stops. bit.ly/4yNJ03G
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UCLA 9/11 Symposium Sparks Battle Over Academic Freedom uclaminana.substack.com/p/ucla-911-s...
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UCLA 9/11 Symposium Sparks Battle Over Academic Freedom
UCLA’S repudiation of a UCLA Law School Symposium on September 11 is unjustified and a serious blow to academic freedom.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Check out the LA Progressive Interview with Professor Ahilan Arulanantham, Faculty Co-Director of the Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law. bit.ly/4xGvCh0
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Check out the LA Progressive interview with Ahilan Arulanantham, a co-convener of the 9/11 Symposium marking the anniversary of the attacks. Read the full interview or listen to the interview: bit.ly/47axdAH
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Check out the LA Times story on the faculty response to UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk’s statement seeking to distance the university from a law school symposium marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11 (which we sponsored). www.latimes.com/california/s...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Miñana Center joins the statement issued by the Co-Chairs of the 9/11 Symposium. Check out bio link to see the full statement. Read the full statement at law.ucla.edu/news/minana-...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Season 3, Episode 1: Revisiting Birth Right Citizenship uclaminana.substack.com/p/season-3-e...
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Season 3, Episode 1: Revisiting Birth Right Citizenship
This episode revisits birthright citizenship, both the Supreme Court’s opinion and Trump v. Barbara, and the more recent executive orders where the Trump Administration, once again, tries to take a wh...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Save the date! Cristina Jiménez, author, organizer, and Co-Founder of United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the United States, in conversation with Ahilan Arulanantham, Co-Director of the Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Post-Symposium Statement from the Co-Chairs. UCLA School of Law, 25 Years After 9/11: Reimagining Freedom, Justice, and Security. @ahilantoolong.bsky.social uclaminana.substack.com/p/post-sympo...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Listen to Ahilan Arulanantham’s full remarks at the 25 Years After 9/11 Symposium. uclaminana.substack.com/p/ahilan-aru...
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Ahilan Arulanantham’s Sept. 11 remarks
Listen to Ahilan Arulananatham’s remarks at the Sept. 11 symposium. He is the co-director of the Miñana Family Center at the UCLA School of Law.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Check out the latest episode of Finding Your Voice podcast w/ Jason Carrasco, LMFT, featuring Miñana Center Faculty Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura. In the episode, he challenges us to reimagine how we talk about immigration policy, moving beyond the past to envision the future. bit.ly/4xcjt3M
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Join us for two days of programming, including Friday, September 11, 2026, for the Miñana Family Center's panel discussion, "Borders, Migration, and National Security." Full details: law.ucla.edu/25-years-aft...
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 12/08/2026
As students head back to school, @ahilantoolong.bsky.social (Ahilan Arulanantham) analyzes a recent campus event with the Department of Homeland Security's General Counsel. He considers what questions might have been asked but weren't, and what lessons the event offers for university programming.
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Free Speech, Immigration Law, and Truth Telling at UCLA Law’s Event
Immigration expert considers questions that might have been asked at DHS General Counsel Percival's UCLA Law Federalist Society event.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As states and localities continue developing policies to curb escalating federal abuses, we offer here a few key drafting tips to ensure such policies are best crafted to withstand legal challenges. Read our latest Substack. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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What States and Localities Should Know When Crafting Policies to Curb Federal Immigration Abuses
Over the last year, federal immigration agents have waged a vicious campaign in the name of mass deportations—racially profiling and brutalizing community members, and confining them in prison-like de...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
25 yrs after the attacks of 9/11, the legal, political, & technological transformations initiated in response to the attacks continue to transform domestic & international law. This symposium will reflect on the legacies of the War on Terror & imagine more just futures. bit.ly/4qcMidV
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“ICE and other federal immigration agents have made quick compliance difficult or impossible,” said Hiroshi Motomura, a professor of immigration and citizenship law at the UCLA School of Law and the author of “Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy.”
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New UCLA Report Documents a Year of “Loss and Resistance” as Trump’s Immigration Agenda Transforms Los Angeles. Full report: bit.ly/laraidsreport
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Check out our latest Substack. The piece delves into how state & local officials "from TX to ME to CA must act to protect the public & help curb the Trump administration’s appetite for reckless enforcement tactics that can only yield more violence & extrajudicial killings." bit.ly/3Tb6JeK
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fed. immigration agents killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo & Johan Sebastían Guerrero during traffic stops in TX and ME. State & local authorities must push to investigate & where justified, prosecute these extrajudicial killings. W/out accountability, DHS will continue to carry out unchecked violence.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
SAVE THE DATE Sept.10–11, 2026 at @law.ucla.edu 25 yrs after the attacks of 09/11/01 This symposium will reflect on the legacies of the War on Terror & to imagine more just futures. law.ucla.edu/25-years-aft...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
On July 7, a federal immigration agent killed Lorenzo Salgado in Texas. Since Trump’s 2nd term in office, DHS agents have shot 21 individuals, killing six.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in a 6-3 split, to uphold birthright citizenship. Check out this clip of Miñana Center Faculty Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura on Spectrum 1, discussing the ruling in Trump v. Barbara.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
UCLA Law Professor and Miñana Center Faculty Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura honored as a Great Immigrant, Great American by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. Learn more about Prof. Motomura and the 2026 Class of Great Immigrants, Great Americans bit.ly/4vbv69v
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
On the eve of the SCOTUS's release of its ruling in Trump v. Barbara, a case about birthright citizenship, Miñana Center's Faculty Co-Director Hiroshi Motomura spoke to Salon about the case and how consequential it may be for the way the United States defines itself. www.salon.com/2026/06/25/o...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Check out this clip of Miñana Center Faculty Co-Director and Mullin v. Dahlia Doe co-counsel, Ahilan Arulanantham, on @msnow w/ @aliciamenendez.bsky.social discussing yesterday's SCOTUS ruling and what it says about country's identity as a nation of immigrants.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🚨BREAKING: SCOTUS Gives Trump Administration Carte Blanche to Strip More Than a Million People of their Legal Status With No Oversight ⚖️Court greenlights Trump administration's termination of #TPS for Syria and Haiti and eliminated most judicial review of TPS decision-making. bit.ly/4w8kXLF
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
SCOTUS is poised to rule in Mullin v. Dahlia Doe, a case that could affect up to 1.3 million immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Jhony Silva, a TPs recipient, health care worker, and plaintiff in NTPSA v. Noem, another TPS lawsuit, braces for what it could mean for him. bit.ly/4uRGlnd
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In state-tuition laws are under attack in some states, including Kansas and Nebraska. Read more: www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This week, the Miñana Center joined community partners in Sacramento in support of AB 713, If signed into law, the bill would ensure equitable access to on-campus employment for all students enrolled at the University of CA, CA State University, & CA Community College systems. #Opportunity4All
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🚨A new filing asks the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss the case in light of new evidence. ⚖️ #TPS 🇭🇹 Full story: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/u...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
As SCOTUS Prepares to Rule, New Evidence Confirms that DHS Lied About Its Actions When Terminating TPS for Haitians. Full details: bit.ly/4eLkwRs
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Both Plyler and DACA ensured a generations of young immigrants without legal status were able to pursue an education. But much remains to be done.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Miñana Center's spring recap is available through our newsletter. Sign up here: bit.ly/minanasignup
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Minnesota charged an ICE officer and had him arrested in Texas. Similar unlawful shootings by immigration agents have taken place in California. Yet, no charges have been filed by state officials in those.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This week, the Miñana Center welcomed Vanessa Young Viniegra. Vanessa joins the team as a Staff Attorney. Previously, Vanessa was a fellow w/Public Counsel, where she worked on civil rights impact litigation and helped bring and litigate a challenge to conditions at the Adelanto Detention Facility.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Our latest on Substack by the Miñana Center's Deputy Director, Talia Inlender, reflects on loss & resistance in LA & offers important lessons on "how immigration law & policy can be wielded both to achieve authoritarian aims as well as to forge a path back towards democratic ideals." bit.ly/4uoU70q
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A Look Back at the Legacy of Loss and Resistance in Los Angeles a Year After June 6
This week marks one year since the Trump administration’s first large-scale assault on a U.S.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Check out this piece by @bloomberglaw.com about the FTCA administrative claim that the Miñana Center filed. We filed this claim on behalf of a Venezuelan man who was detained by federal immigration officials for eight days despite having valid Temporary Protected Status (TPS). bit.ly/4fzfusp
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UCLA School of Law @law.ucla.edu · 05/06/2026
Students in UCLA Law's Immigrants' Rights Policy Clinic (@uclaminana.bsky.social) secured a major legal victory in April, helping free a man from ICE detention and reuniting him with his family. Read more: law.ucla.edu/news/heading... #Law #ImmigrationLaw
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Heading home: UCLA Law clinic wins the release of a man from immigration detention
Students in UCLA School of Law’s Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic secured a major legal victory in April when they helped free a man from ICE detention. It was a success that put a human face on their...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Check out the Miñana Center’s latest piece by Sofía López Franco, a Staff Attorney at the Miñana Center. She represents a Venezuelan man who was detained by federal immigration officials for eight days despite having valid Temporary Protected Status (TPS). open.substack.com/pub/uclamina...
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One TPS Holder's Fight for Accountability Offers Glimpse Into What's at Stake
When Border Patrol officials stopped John’s* car at a Texas checkpoint last September, he thought he was prepared.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Check out Miñana Center Staff Attorney Sofía López Franco discussing the administrative claim filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) on behalf of a Venezuelan man who was detained by federal immigration officials for eight days despite having valid Temporary Protected Status. bit.ly/4xklHyO
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Miñana Center is excited to welcome summer fellows Karely Amaya Rios and Ben O'Hara. Both fellows will join our team and @law.ucla.edu's Immigrant Family Legal Clinic this summer to learn about advocating for immigrants' rights through litigation, policy advocacy, and direct representation.
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We’ve got a new name. Check out the full release to learn more about the Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy. full details: law.ucla.edu/news/leading...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Students in UCLA School of Law's Immigrants' Rights Policy Clinic secured a legal victory in April by helping free a man from ICE detention. Check out this clip of @law.ucla.edu students sharing their experience. Learn more about CILP's clinic work law.ucla.edu/news/heading...
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The Miñana Family Center for Immigration Law and Policy @uclaminana.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Check out this full talk and article by CILP's Faculty Co-Director Ahilan Arulanantham. The remarks were made during The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library's 1619 Project's discussion about immigration law and racist precedent. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFLR...
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