Advocacy
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia Testified Before the House Oversight Committee on Deferred Action, September 11, 2019
Congressional Testimony, House Judiciary Committee, Discrimination and Civil Rights in the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian Communities, March 1, 2022
Letter to Attorney General Garland to Remove Non-Priority Cases from the Active Docket of the Nation's Immigration Courts, April 30, 2021
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Immigration Scholars to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the Uninsured Ban, February 2021
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Immigration Law Scholars to the Northern District of California on Asylum and Withholding of Removal Rule, December 2020
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Immigration Law Professors to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the Nonimmigrant Visa Ban, December 2020
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Immigration Law Professors to the Northern District of California on the Expansion of Bars to Asylum, November 10, 2020
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Immigration Law Professors to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on the Nonimmigrant Visa Ban, November 5, 2020
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Immigration Law Professors to the Northern District of California on the Nonimmigrant Visa Ban, August 7, 2020
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Immigration Law Professors to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on the Asylum Ban, August 3, 2020
Redlined version of DHS Memo on DACA, July 28, 2020
Comment, Proposed Rule by Departments of Homeland Security and Justice on Asylum, July 13, 2020
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Immigration Law Professors to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the "Insurance" Ban, February 2020
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Law Professors to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Third Country Asylum Rule, October 2019
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Law Professors on Third Country Asylum Rule, August 2019
Expert Opinion, Lawsuit Challenging DACA, July 2019
Response to William Barr on DACA, Nationwide Injunctions: Redline Version, May 2019
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Law Professors on the Asylum Rule, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, May 15, 2019
Law Professor Letter in support of the NO Ban Act, April 10, 2019
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Law Professors on the Asylum Rule Case, December 5, 2018
Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief by Law Professors in the Travel Ban Case/Hawaii v Trump, March 31, 2018
Amicus Brief by Law Professors in DACA-Regents Case, March 20, 2018
Statement by Legal Practitioners and Scholars in Immigration on the DACA and H4 Children, March 1, 2018
Expert Declaration in Lawsuit challenging DACA rescission, filed December 2017
Open Letter to the President on the legality of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), signed by 105 law professors, August 14, 2017
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Press conference with Dreamers, immigration advocates and legal experts: http://americasvoice.org/press_releases/dreamers-immigration-advocates-legal-experts-celebrate-fifth-anniversary-daca-outline-next-steps-fight/
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InsideHigherEd: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/08/14/law-professors-%E2%80%98no-question%E2%80%99-daca-legal#.WZGDsq3LoSo.mailto
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Penn State: http://news.psu.edu/story/477497/2017/08/14/academics/professor-wadhia-co-authors-letter-trump-legality-daca
Letter to the White House supporting the legal authority of executive action in immigration law, signed by 136 law professors, Sept. 3, 2014
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Washington Post Lawyer’s agree: Obama has broad authority to act on deportations, Sept. 3, 2014
Letter supporting President Obama’s deferred action programs announced signed by 135 law professors, Nov. 25, 2014:
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Associated Press Bigstory Legal Scholars: Obama’s immigration actions lawful, Nov. 25, 2014
Letter to the White House defending the legality of extending deferred action to the parents of DACA (Deferred action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients, Nov. 3, 2014
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NBC News Law Profs: Legal To Include More Immigrant Parents In Exec Action, Dec. 3, 2014
Letter challenging Texas v. U.S. (March 2015), signed by 104 immigration law scholars
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NBC News Legal Experts: Ruling Blocking Immigration Action 'Deeply Flawed', March 13, 2015
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Law 360: Law Profs. Call Executive Action Injunction 'Deeply Flawed', March 13, 2015