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Friday, May 28, 2021
Tulane Law report on detained immigrants

Tulane Immigrant Rights Clinic report: Detained immigrants languishing in Louisiana prisons


The Tulane Immigrant Rights Clinic released a report that found immigrant detainees in Louisiana are routinely denied their right to a speedy review of cases challenging indefinite detention. The report, conducted by Tulane Law Professors Mary Yanik and Laila Hlass and their students, found only five cases out of nearly 500 in which the court ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release detained immigrants on habeas petitions. Instead, once detainees challenged the practice, many were quietly released by ICE.

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Ghosts of the Gulf

A Studio in the Woods awarded grant from the National Endowment for the Arts


Through a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Studio in the Woods — a program of Tulane’s ByWater Institute — will support “Search for the Ghosts of the Gulf,” a project with artist, biologist and environmental activist Brandon Ballengée and Plaquemines Parish that will explore missing and endangered Gulf of Mexico fish species. Read More
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Tulane Today to publish twice a week


Beginning Tuesday, June 1, Tulane Today will move from daily publication to twice a week —Tuesday and Thursday — until the start of the fall 2021 semester. To read previous issues of Tulane Today, click here.
IN THE NEWS
CNBC
Jesse Keenan, associate professor of real estate at the School of Architecture, answers the question of why housing is so expensive in the United States right now.

The New York Times
Robert Garry, virologist at the School of Medicine, says there’s evidence that the coronavirus emerged naturally through recombination from different bat coronaviruses.

AZ Central
Dr. Anjali Niyogi, an associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at the School of Medicine, comments on the potential impact that COVID-19 outbreaks in immigrant detention facilities could have on surrounding communities.

Education Week
Douglas Harris, economics professor and chair in public education at the School of Liberal Arts and director of the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, discusses similarities between the educational impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and Hurricane Katrina.
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