In Los Angeles, California this week, former Immigration Officer Mai Nhu Nguyen was sentenced to 2 ½ years in federal prison for a plea of guilty she made earlier this year to accepting bribes in favor of granting immigration benefits to people who appeared before in her capacity as an Immigration Officer. Before her scam...Read More
Colorado recently became the 11th state to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver’s license without providing information regarding their immigration status in the United States and facing the risk of removal proceedings. For most individuals who do not have legal status, this benefit is a golden opportunity. It enables them to drive their children...Read More
The United States Immigration Court, located in the Federal Building at Ninth and Market Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is not one of the largest courts in the nation. However, with the recent influx of unaccompanied minors crossing the border of Mexico in the United States, many of these children have found themselves in Immigration Courts...Read More
A Federal Appeals Court in Boston ruled that the mandatory detention provision in immigration law is being misapplied. Immigration Judges have been interpreting the mandatory detention law as applicable anytime a person “was released” from custody after October 8, 1998. This means that a person released from custody in 1999 and subsequently detained by immigration...Read More
In Miami, Florida, the race for Congress between two candidates rest, largely, on their stance on immigration. Miami consists of a very large Hispanic community from various countries with various views on immigration reform. Republican Carlos Curbelo is challenging Democratic Rep Joe Garcia to represent Florida’s 26th congressional district. Garcia, is a proponent of immigration...Read More
In a recent interview with Fox News, Mario Diaz-Balart says that he believes that the next window for passing comprehensive immigration reform is early next year. If that window is missed, Diaz-Balart said, immigration reform will continue to be an elusive goal for an indefinite period of time. After the next Congress, the political focus...Read More
On Thursday, September 4, 2014, the U.S. court appealed for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan, with the hopes of providing and continuing training to lawyers in order to better assist them in the representation of immigrants. During the training, Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, took the stage in front of nearly 25 attorneys, and...Read More
Today, two leaders of the immigration judges’ union called for the immigration court system to be separated from the Department of Justice. Their concern is that the immigration judges are supposed to be independent arbiters and unbiased triers of fact and law in removal proceedings but their inclusion in the Department of Justice makes this...Read More
While at a Republican fundraising event, Florida Senator Rubio was heckled by advocates seeking and demanding immigration reform. Rubio, whose parents fled Cuba in the 1950’s, acknowledged that he is from a family of immigrants. Rubio is still reeling from his failed attempt at comprehensive immigration reform. He helped write a bill that passed in...Read More
There are an estimated 4,000 children who are undocumented in San Francisco and facing removal proceedings and ultimately, deportation. San Francisco will become the first city in California to develop and implement a program to provide legal representation to undocumented children. The non-profit, Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights will be funded to provide pro bono...Read More
