Erin Corcoran
Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频, Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs
Executive Director, Associate Teaching Professor
- U.S. immigration law and policy
- Refugee and asylum law
- Protection of vulnerable migrant populations
- Human trafficking
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Corcoran’s 91视频
Corcoran in the News
WSBT TV
January 21, 2025
“A lot of the policies are really addressed to the people that are currently here in the United States, which will have impact on whether or not people think it's a good place to come to,” said Erin Corcoran, a professor at Notre Dame’s Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs.
Newsweek
January 07, 2025
Erin B. Corcoran, an associate teaching professor at the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, previously told Newsweek: "The incoming administration has made comments suggesting a significant tightening down on existing visa programs, including student visas and H-1B (high-skilled worker visas). These comments have created significant concern at institutions of higher education, particularly with international students and faculty who are here on student visas or H-1B visas."
OSV News
January 03, 2025
Erin Corcoran, executive director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 and a faculty fellow at the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame, shared Appleby’s concerns regarding Trump’s mass deportation plans for an estimated 11 million people.
Voice of America
January 02, 2025
"I think the numbers that we've seen in the last couple of years are historic, they are the largest number that we've seen in history — by peer number, not necessarily by percentage," said Erin Corcoran, University of Notre Dame.
WSBT TV
December 19, 2024
“It provides a lot more certainty for businesses and universities. There's not this sort of legal limbo that people are in. It reduces anxiety for the recipients,” said Erin Corcoran, a professor at Notre Dame’s Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs.
Miami Herald
December 10, 2024
The amendment, which was ratified in 1868 — three years after the Civil War ended — was drawn up to give citizenship to recently freed slaves, Erin Corcoran, a professor at the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, told McClatchy News.
Newsweek
December 02, 2024
Speaking to Newsweek, Erin B. Corcoran, an immigration law expert who serves as executive director of the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute of International Peace 91视频, said the ruling was "surprising to me." She added: "Historically, the courts have been fairly deferential to the federal government with respect to immigration enforcement."
WVPE
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November 15, 2024
Professor Erin Corcoran of Notre Dame’s Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs provided legal understanding of the situation. “Immigration law is federal and the enforcement of immigration law is federal,” Corcoran said. “The courts have been pretty clear, back into the 1800s that immigration and migration is a federal issue.”
WSBT TV
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November 14, 2024
Professor Erin Corcoran is faculty member in the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs at Notre Dame. Her background provides context for what power the federal government has to enforce immigration policy, and what power cities have to participate or decline to help.
WSBT TV
November 12, 2024
“All of those people who were granted DACA relief are in the system and their addresses are current,” said Erin Corcoran, a professor at Notre Dame’s Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs.
Global News
October 30, 2024
“The conversation around immigration used to be not too long ago, whether you were Republican or Democrat … that there was a problem, but also that immigrants were part of the solution,” said Erin Corcoran, a professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana who studies immigration policy.
OSV News
October 30, 2024
“It just seems like a prescription for chaos,” commented Erin Corcoran, an associate teaching professor and executive director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
WSBT TV
September 06, 2024
“One of the only places we don’t have a cap is on the asylum system, not only the number of people we grant but the number of people we allow to apply because the idea is because it’s a fundamental human right to be able to seek protection, you can’t say this person has this right because they got in under a quota and this person can’t access this right because they are one person over,” said Erin Corcoran, a professor at Notre Dame’s Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs.
LIVENOW FROM FOX
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June 10, 2024
LiveNOW's Stephanie Coueignoux spoke with Erin B. Corcoran, the executive director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 and associate teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame, to discuss Biden's plan to enact restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the border.
Voice of America
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June 05, 2024
Joining us now to talk about the action is Erin Corcoran, a professor at the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame (at minute 2:38).
Voice of America
Video Audio
February 12, 2024
Professor Erin Corcoran of the University of Notre Dame maintains that the current immigration legistalation before Congress is being delayed for policical purposes.
Brasil 247 | Portuguese
Video Audio
February 08, 2024
Part of the anti-immigration rhetoric is the idea that immigrants enter the United States to commit crimes. But this is a flawed speech, according to Professor Erin Corcoran, immigration specialist at the Keough 91视频.
WSBT TV
February 01, 2024
“The thing about immigration is in some ways people can kind of grandstand on it, because the people that it affects are not voters. The people that we're talking about don't have a right to vote, so they don't have any political capital,” said Erin Corcoran, a professor at Notre Dame’s Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs.
WVPE
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January 30, 2024
If you’ve become more concerned about the recent escalating tensions between Texas and the federal government over how best to control the border, you’re not alone. Erin Corcoran, an immigration expert at the University of Notre Dame, also has been following the situation closely.
Fox News
January 29, 2024
"U.S. immigration law is clearly a federal matter. Both Congress and the Executive Branch have roles to play," said Erin B. Corcoran, executive director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame. "However, any permanent changes to federal laws or funding for immigration enforcement is the responsibility of Congress. Our immigration system is in need of significant congressional reform, and such reform must come from Congress."
LIVENOW FROM FOX
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January 19, 2024
Texas’ refusal to allow Border Patrol agents into a park along the U.S.-Mexico border is a new marker in the state’s deepening rift with the Biden administration over immigration. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is working with lawmakers to hammer out a border security funding plan — with Erin Corcoran, professor in the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
LIVENOW FROM FOX
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January 02, 2024
Several U.S. mayors are asking for federal help amid a surge in migrants. Erin Corcoran, an associate professor with the University of Notre Dame, shares her thoughts on the developing situation.
WSBT TV
December 19, 2023
“If you're granted asylum in the United States, there's about 10 different documents that you could produce if you were stopped that would show that you, in fact, were granted asylum,” said Erin Corcoran, a professor at Notre Dame’s Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs. “To ask cops to understand all of those documents is a nightmare."
WSBT TV
September 14, 2023
“This (ruling) is really a signal to Congress, ‘If you guys really do think that this dreamer population is worthy of having some kind of immigration status, [then] you guys need to fix this legislatively,’” said Erin Corcoran, a professor at Notre Dame’s Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs.
The Messenger
September 14, 2023
Erin B. Corcoran is a professor at Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs and the executive director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame.
The National Desk
August 04, 2023
“If one circuit court makes a decision about how a rule is supposed to be interpreted, the Seventh Circuit versus the Ninth circuit or the Third Circuit and the circuits have different views on how that's interpreted until the Supreme Court makes a decision of the circuit split in those jurisdictions,” said Erin Corcoran, a professor at Notre Dame’s Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs.
NewsNation Now
June 27, 2023
The recent growth doesn’t come as a surprise to Erin Corcoran, a professor at the Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. The climbing number of refugees underscores differences between the Trump and Biden administrations, she said.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
June 06, 2023
Attorney Erin B. Corcoran, an immigration law expert and professor at Notre Dame’s Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs, said DeSantis’ migrant flights raise significant legal issues.
Newsweek
May 30, 2023
Erin B. Corcoran, associate teaching professor, Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, told Newsweek that Trump would not have the legal authority for such an order as birthright citizenship is in the U.S. Constitution.
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Video Audio
May 19, 2023
"There is a perception that the Southwest border is somehow under siege, which I think is just not factually true," said Erin Corcoran, associate professor, Keough 91视频 of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. "And I think that one of the other challenges is that there's a lot of misinformation for migrants about what they can and cannot get if they come into the U.S border."
El Mercurio (Subscription | Spanish)
May 12, 2023
"Part of the proposal of the Biden administration is to create regional processing centers in other countries, including Guatemala and Colombia, and require that migrants first apply for asylum there. The international community, including the Human Rights Commission of the UN, is concerned that these measures contradict the obligations of the U.S. government to the Convention on the Statute of the Refugees of 1951 and will put refugees fleeing the gang violence and gender violence in the region of the The Northern Triangle at serious risk," said Erin Corcoran, an expert on immigration law from the University of Notre Dame (in Indiana).
LiveNOW from FOX
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May 11, 2023
A large number of migrants have rushed to the border ahead of the expiration of Title 42, which ends at midnight. Erin Corcoran with the University of Notre Dame joined LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow to break down the basics of the regulation and what happens next.
Courthouse News Service
May 05, 2023
“In some ways they’re not relying on Title 42 authority anymore, but they’re still pushing people back,” said Erin Corcoran, the acting director for the Kroc Institute [for] International Peace 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame.
Newsweek
December 18, 2022
Erin Corcoran, the executive director for the Kroc Institute of International Peace 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame, told Newsweek on Sunday that the Biden administration extending Title 42 would be "short-sighted" because it would put asylum seekers and those seeking protection from human trafficking at risk.
Rolling Stone
September 15, 2022
Professor Erin B. Corcoran of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute of International Peace 91视频 tells Rolling Stone that, like anyone in the U.S., migrants who are not being held in custody cannot be transported without voluntary and informed consent. “Consent is making a decision with full information and without duress,” she explains. “States can’t physically move immigrants like federal immigration authorities can. They can move people around if they have them in custody. States don’t have the authority to do that.”
Check Your Fact
June 29, 2022
“The Supreme Court did not rule on the search itself rather whether the plaintiff could sue for damages under the common law Bivens doctrine,” Erin Corcoran, Executive Director for the Kroc Institute of International Peace 91视频, told Check Your Fact.
News Nation Now
April 20, 2022
But professor Erin Corcoran, executive director for Notre Dame’s Institute of International Peace 91视频, says the White House should end Title 42 since the CDC says it’s no longer necessary from a public health perspective.
ABC 6
September 28, 2021
鈥淲hat Judge Hanen held was that the Obama DACA order most likely would not survive judicial scrutiny because the way in which he went about creating it violated the Administrative Procedure Act,鈥 said Erin Corcoran, executive director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame.
Vega (Brazil)
February 05, 2021
鈥淚t is not exactly a question of opening the gate. But it sends the message that we are going to grant basic legal rights and be respectful to immigrants," says Erin Corcoran, director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频 at ND. (鈥淣茫o se trata exatamente de abrir a porteira. Mas passa a mensagem de que vamos conceder direitos legais b谩sicos e ser respeitosos com imigrantes鈥, afirma Erin Corcoran, diretora do Instituto Kroc de Estudos Internacionais de Paz, da Universidade Notre Dame.)