Behind the Border
Michael KaganAn immigration law professor at the frontlines.
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Mass Deportation is an Attack on Latino Men. Especially in Nevada.
When I testified to the Nevada legislature earlier this month, I made a point to emphasize that Trump’s mass deportation campaign is specifically a campaign against Latinos. I wanted to be blunt about that, because the data is overwhelming....
As Jewish Nevadans, Tisha B’Av calls us to remember. Recent events call us to act.
Tonight is the beginning of Tisha B’Av, the Jewish commemoration of persecution and disasters that have befallen the Jewish people. I feel very fortunate that my colleague at UNLV, philosophy professor Amy Reed-Sandoval, asked me to be part...
Keeping up with the Calrissians
I apologize for invoking a Star Wars analogy again, but this just keeps happening. Nevada politicians keep trying to claim they’ve made a deal with Donald Trump that is straight out of The Empire Strikes Back. I can’t help it.
The Nevada I...
"The government is rebelling against the basic principle underlying our constitutional order"
This is an excerpt of a July 2, 2026 order granting a joint petition for writ of habeas corpus for seven immigrants in Nevada. Most internal legal citations are omitted.
Judge Boulware ordered their immediate release.
Petitioners are se...
This is not supposed to be the American way
Tonight, with Athar Haseebullah of the ACLU of Nevada, I testified to an interim committee of the Nevada Legislature about the grave threat posed by ICE to the legal order that we take for granted in the United States.
Last week, a federa...
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Writer of Behind the Border on Substack. An immigration law professor in Las Vegas. Director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic. Speaking for myself only, obv.
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