SAN FRANCISCO – The California Supreme Court has upheld a lower court decision that found the University of California’s policy of barring undocumented immigrants from accessing on-campus jobs and paid research positions is discriminatory.

In August, a three-judge panel for the Court of Appeal for the First District ruled “the University’s employment policy facially discriminates based on immigration status and, in light of applicable state law, the discriminatory policy cannot be justified by the University’s” reasons.

With the start of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term this month, UCLA School of Law has been at the forefront of discussion, scholarship, and advocacy before the high court. This included two events that featured nationally renowned legal commentators – the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse and University of Michigan Law School professor Leah Litman – in conversation with faculty experts.

Los Angeles – In an unreasoned three-paragraph order, the U.S. Supreme Court today granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a federal court decision protecting Venezuelans with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) while it appeals the lower court’s ruling. 

On September 5, 2025, U.S. District Court Judge Edward M. Chen ruled that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s attempt to strip Venezuelans and Haitians of TPS was illegal because it failed to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).

The Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at UCLA School of Law has collaborated to create a website and organizing tool that traces every deportation order by the federal government since 1895.

Los Angeles – Attorneys for Venezuelan and Haitian Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders today filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in opposition to the Trump administration’s request for an emergency stay of a federal court ruling protecting the Venezuelan community. That ruling by Judge Edward M. Chen held that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s attempt to strip Venezuelans and Haitians of TPS was illegal because it failed to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act (or APA).

Los Angeles – The Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law and Million Dollar Hoods have partnered to create Mapping Deportations, an unprecedented website and organizing tool that traces every deportation order in the U.S. since 1895.