The recent inauguration of an administration with strong restrictionist views on Immigration Law and Policy has led to a rapid-fire series of Executive Orders, policy changes and procedural revisions that aim to reduce inbound migration overall and impose limits on the rights and opportunities of migrants in the United States. Among these are the proposal to build a wall on the southern border, a ban on Muslim immigration, the elimination of the DACA program aiding migrants who arrived as children, cutbacks to refugee resettlement, stepped up enforcement, detention and deportations, challenges to family-based immigration, proposals to eliminate birthright citizenship, and more. This seminar course will attempt to put these changes and proposals in context, both from a standpoint of existing Immigration Law, and the historical development of policy norms. Students will need to learn some basic principles of Immigration Law, but this seminar will not be a comprehensive introduction to the Immigration and Nationality Act. Rather, we will look to background principles to understand the meaning and impacts of current developments. We will also survey the range of reactions, responses and opposition that has arisen from the administration’s initiatives.