Erin Corcoran

November 10, 2025

“It’s yet another example of the way in which this current administration is trying to make it much harder to come here either temporarily or to remain here by targeting public-health issues,” said Erin Corcoran, a US immigration law and policy professor at the University of Notre Dame.

June 20, 2025

In order to visit an ICE field office, members of Congress now have new rules. Erin Corcoran, an immigration law expert at the University of Notre Dame told us, DHS is now asking lawmakers to give 72-hours notice.

June 19, 2025

Erin Corcoran, an associate teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame and executive director of the university’s Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, said one of the ways the federal government can punish sanctuary jurisdictions is to withhold federal grants. “I think this is the way they’re most likely going to be successful with targeting sanctuary cities,” Corcoran said.

June 11, 2025

Erin B. Corcoran, executive director at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and associate teaching professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs: “Closing four U.N. refugee offices in Mexico will have devastating consequences for individuals fleeing persecution and harm in the region."

April 28, 2025

"I think the charges are related to whether or not she actually helped this individual evade arrest by ICE agents," said Erin Corcoran, an immigration law and policy expert at the University of Notre Dame.

April 21, 2025

“The Supreme Court doesn't just issue general pronouncements about what the law should be. It only resolves disputes between parties in which one party is arguing that they're being injured by another party's actions or policies. The court does still take that role very seriously,” said Erin Corcoran, a professor at Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.

April 16, 2025

Features Erin Corcoran, immigration law and policy, University of Notre Dame.

April 07, 2025

Erin Corcoran, a professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, tells us, both of these tragic cases are in the national spotlight because of the immigration crisis.

March 21, 2025

The owners of small businesses, such as Abby’s Bakery, have not generally been targeted, Erin Corcoran, an immigration professor at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, told McClatchy News.

February 25, 2025

The owners of small businesses, such as Abby’s Bakery, have not generally been targeted, Erin Corcoran, an immigration professor at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, told McClatchy News.

February 06, 2025

"In some ways he is doing what he said he would do on the campaign," said Erin Corcoran, an expert on immigration law and policy at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs.

February 05, 2025

“Deporting U.S. citizens is not generally permitted as a matter of practice,” Erin Corcoran, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, who specializes in U.S. immigration law, told McClatchy News.

January 27, 2025

Trump signing the order on Day 1 is "testing the outer limits of executive branch power in the immigration sphere," Erin Corcoran, executive director of Notre Dame University’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, said.

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January 27, 2025

This morning we're learning that Colombia's President has agreed to President Trump's terms when it comes to the deportation of migrants. According to a statement from the White House, Colombia agreed to take deported migrants after President Trump threatened to implement stiff tariffs if Colombia did not agree to accept flights of migrants from the U.S. Erin Corcoran with the University of Notre Dame weighs in.

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 School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, told McClatchy 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.

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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 Studies 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.

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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 School. 

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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 School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. 

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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.

September 14, 2023

Erin B. Corcoran is a professor at Keough School of Global Affairs and the executive director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

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 School of Global Affairs.

June 06, 2023

Attorney Erin B. Corcoran, an immigration law expert and professor at Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, said DeSantis’ migrant flights raise significant legal issues.

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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 School 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."

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).
 

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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.

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 Studies, told Check Your Fact.

April 20, 2022

But professor Erin Corcoran, executive director for Notre Dame’s Institute of International Peace Studies, says the White House should end Title 42 since the CDC says it’s no longer necessary from a public health perspective.

September 28, 2021

“What 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,” said Erin Corcoran, executive director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

February 05, 2021

“It 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 Studies at ND. (“Não se trata exatamente de abrir a porteira. Mas passa a mensagem de que vamos conceder direitos legais básicos e ser respeitosos com imigrantes”, afirma Erin Corcoran, diretora do Instituto Kroc de Estudos Internacionais de Paz, da Universidade Notre Dame.)