“It is a small step within a complex immigration system that can smooth the way for many individuals to get a work visa more quickly,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law.

“That displacement is causing them to go into forests that tend to have the greatest conservation value and are disproportionately occupied by Indigenous peoples,” said study author Amanda Rodewald, from the Lab of Ornithology.

In addition to its human consequences, cocaine trafficking harms the environment and threatens habitats important to dozens of species of migratory birds, according to a new study.

Alexandra Dufresne, professor of practice, writes this piece on student protests and why universities should keep immigration consequences in mind.

Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, says, “Courts will have to decide how much deference to give President Biden and whether his lawyers have crafted the executive order carefully enough.”

Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, discusses the state of the U.S. immigration system.

Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, an immigration law scholar at Cornell University Law School, said that reforming the immigration system and expanding access to counsel should both happen simultaneously.
 

A group is challenging the state law that can stop immigrants without the proper documents from getting worker's compensation. Michigan and Wyoming are the only two states that deny them.

Fatal drownings are a big risk for small-scale fishers on Africa’s largest lake, with many of those deaths attributed to bad weather – conditions that are likely to worsen with climate change, according to a new study.

Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, says the Biden administration is between “a rock and a hard place.