Immigration Professor's Blog is Back Online After Sudden Disappearance

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I’m excited to announce that the Immigration Professor’s Blog is back up online at its new website! The blog was unceremoniously removed from its previous host on TypePad, which announced last month it would be completely shutting down the platform with barely any notice. The Immigration Professor’s Blog was part of a larger network of thematic blogs about law. Kevin Johnson has been running it steadfastly since 2005.

The blog is one of the best repositories of information over the last twenty years. It’s a hub and a wealth of information. When I created one of the first maps of the immigration courts almost ten years ago, the first place I thought to make it available was through the ImmProf blog. I still remember feeling a little nervous reaching out to Kevin to ask him if it would be an appropriate thing to post. He was very generous and posted it so quickly that I think it was up online by the time I saw his email back to me. That’s just how Kevin is. He doesn’t mess around and really stays on top of it. This is part of what makes the blog and his involvement such a valuable resource to the whole community.

When I learned that the blog went down, I talked to my colleagues at Relevant Research and we agreed that this would be a great opportunity to contribute some pro bono work to supporting the immigrant community. Given our experience with immigration research and web development, we wanted to make sure that this resource doesn’t go away. Riwaj, who runs our web development work, jumped right on it and made it possible for us to get this up so quickly.

There are some advantages of the current website over the previous one. The design is a little cleaner and more modern, although we’ve kept it extremely simple. You can now see who posted each post from among the six of us editors. You can click on the authors to see other things that they’ve posted. Each post now shares much more easily on social media with a nice social media image, unlike the previous site, which would never populate with an image. There’s no advertising whatsoever built into the website, and we have no interest in adding any. Because the overall software behind the site is more modern than TypePad, you should find that the articles are more accessible and easier to read across a variety of devices.

We do hope to build out the option for signing up to get emails or digests from posts on the site automatically. We also plan on including the full twenty-year archive of the previous blog in the current site. Although we turned off the comment feature for now, we may reopen that in the future. We want to be clear on the implications of that and make sure that the security is solid.

It’s been a privilege to help bring the Immigration Professor’s Blog back online. Resources like this don’t just archive information—they build and sustain communities. We’re committed to keeping this platform accessible and functional so it can continue to serve immigration scholars, practitioners, and advocates for years to come. The blog will continue to provide the same high-quality analysis and timely updates that readers have relied on for two decades. We invite you to visit the new site and stay tuned for continued coverage of immigration law and policy.

See my previous post below, which explains more about why the blog went down originally.

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