Deep Gulasekaram was quoted by Buzzfeed about Texas’ lawsuit against the federal government to stop Biden’s 100 day stop on deportations, and by the National Law Review about agreements that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) signed with many states that will pose a threat to the Biden administration’s immigration goals.

Immigration Law Professor of Santa Clara University School of Law, Pratheepan Gulasekaram, said the agreement is a mechanism for the states to potentially sue the administration over the changing policies in federal court. “This is just another last-ditch effort to try and ingrain a reckless hyper enforcement system, but completely unmoored from legal, constitutional ways of implementing policy,” he said.

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Pratheepan Gulasekaram

Professor of Law