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Current Immigration Law Developments (2025): Executive Actions and Recent Case Law

Contains material from Jan 2026
Current Immigration Law Developments (2025): Executive Actions and Recent Case Law
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Session 1: Executive Authority & Immigration: Legal Shifts and Strategic Impacts - An overview of executive actions under the new administration.

Session 2: Alien Enemies Act Overview - Discuss the ongoing fight against the Trump Administration's unprecedented invocation and use of the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime authority used only three times in the nation's history.

Session 3: Case Law Update - Precedential case law updates spanning 2024 to 2025, with a focus on decisions positive for noncitizens where possible! Hear a discussion on Supreme Court updates, as well as interesting precedent from the Fifth Circuit, other Circuits, and BIA. Topics will include asylum, crimmigration, and more!

Session 4: Texas Legislative Updates and the Correlation with Immigration Policy - Explore how recent Texas legislative efforts intersect with immigration policy at the state and federal levels, with a focus on education, workforce participation, criminalization, and legal challenges. Discuss key bills, implementation trends, and implications for immigrant communities across Texas.

Includes: Video Captions Audio Transcript Paper Slides

  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 3.25
  • Credit Info
  • TX, CA, PA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2027

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Sessions

Credit
1. Executive Authority & Immigration: Legal Shifts and Strategic Impacts (Jan 2026)

Sharvari (Shev) Dalal-Dheini, Michelle L. Saenz-Rodriguez, Jacqueline L. Watson

1.00 0.00 0.00 1.00
Session Materials
Video
(mp4)
63 mins
Audio
(mp3)
62 mins
Transcript
(txt)
Slides
(pdf)
7 pgs

Session 1 —63 mins 1.00

Executive Authority & Immigration: Legal Shifts and Strategic Impacts (Jan 2026)

An overview of executive actions under the new administration.

Originally presented: Oct 2025 Conference on Immigration and Nationality Law

Sharvari (Shev) Dalal-Dheini, American Immigration Lawyers Association - Washington, DC
Michelle L. Saenz-Rodriguez, Saenz-Rodriguez & Associates, P.C. - Dallas, TX
Jacqueline L. Watson, JLW Immigration Law Group - Austin, TX

2. Alien Enemies Act Overview (Jan 2026)

Daniel Galindo

0.50 0.00 0.00 0.50
Session Materials
Video
(mp4)
28 mins
Audio
(mp3)
28 mins
Transcript
(txt)
Slides
(pdf)
3 pgs

Session 2 —28 mins 0.50

Alien Enemies Act Overview (Jan 2026)

Discuss the ongoing fight against the Trump Administration's unprecedented invocation and use of the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime authority used only three times in the nation's history.

Originally presented: Oct 2025 Conference on Immigration and Nationality Law

Daniel Galindo, ACLU - New York, NY

3. Case Law Update (Jan 2026)

Jonathan Levy, Rekha Sharma-Crawford

1.00 0.00 0.00 1.00
Session Materials
Video
(mp4)
59 mins
Audio
(mp3)
59 mins
Transcript
(txt)
Paper
(pdf)
3 pgs
Slides
(pdf)
34 pgs

Session 3 —59 mins 1.00

Case Law Update (Jan 2026)

Precedential case law updates spanning 2024 to 2025, with a focus on decisions positive for noncitizens where possible! Hear a discussion on Supreme Court updates, as well as interesting precedent from the Fifth Circuit, other Circuits, and BIA. Topics will include asylum, crimmigration, and more!
 

Originally presented: Oct 2025 Conference on Immigration and Nationality Law

Jonathan Levy, American Gateways - Austin, TX
Rekha Sharma-Crawford, Sharma-Crawford Attorneys at Law - Kansas City, MO

4. Texas Legislative Updates and the Correlation with Immigration Policy (Jan 2026)

Kristin Etter, Faye M. Kolly

0.75 0.00 0.00 0.75
Session Materials
Video
(mp4)
44 mins
Audio
(mp3)
44 mins
Transcript
(txt)
Paper
(pdf)
57 pgs
Slides
(pdf)
16 pgs

Session 4 —44 mins 0.75

Texas Legislative Updates and the Correlation with Immigration Policy (Jan 2026)

Explore how recent Texas legislative efforts intersect with immigration policy at the state and federal levels, with a focus on education, workforce participation, criminalization, and legal challenges. Discuss key bills, implementation trends, and implications for immigrant communities across Texas.

Originally presented: Oct 2025 Conference on Immigration and Nationality Law

Kristin Etter, Texas Immigration Law Council - Austin, TX
Faye M. Kolly, McChesney Kolly PLLC - Austin, TX