As comprehensive immigration reform remains unlikely in the current political climate while an impasse presides over Congress, a coalition of organizations have formed a report with proposed reforms in regulations affecting skilled foreign-born workers and students with advanced degrees. The groups include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , the American Council on International Personnel ,...Read More
As we previously informed, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it would provide prosecutorial discretion so as to provide relief for low priority immigration cases. DHS stated that a new committee will review 300,000 immigration cases currently in removal proceedings to determine which cases are low priority and can be administratively closed....Read More
More than a year after SB 1070 was initially taken to federal court, the immigration restrictionists behind Arizona’s misguided immigration law have brought their case to the Supreme Court. Proponents of SB 1070 deem the state’s petition as not only the first step toward reversing the injunction against the law’s most punitive provisions, but also...Read More
Image via Wikipedia In a case recently reviewed, the Board of Immigration Appeals(BIA) made the decision that even though immigrants must still be informed of their-albeit significantly more limited rights- upon being arrested, they, however, need not to be advised of their rights until after their interrogation has ended and formal deportation proceedings have already...Read More
The Case of Carlos Martinez Gutierrez, a young man who got caught smuggling three Mexican children into California, has reached the nation’s highest appellate court. The U.S. Supreme court has agreed to hear Gutierrez’s case, which raises questions potentially crucial for other children of illegal immigrants. If Gutierrez were to win, some immigrants may find...Read More
Fourteen people have been arrested in Sacramento for taking part in a grand-scale fraud, namely that of arranging dozens of sham marriages with the objective of obtaining lawful permanent residency and ultimately citizenship for clients from Eastern Europe and Russia. According to U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner, this case of immigration fraud is the first in...Read More
The White House announced on Thursday August 18th that a new deportation policy will be implemented which will prioritize the deportation of documented and undocumented immigrations who have criminal records. This new policy includes allowing undocumented immigrants who would otherwise not qualify for relief from deportation to remain legally in the United States. Some would...Read More
For those undocumented immigrants who avoid flying for fear of detection by the TSA, a new threat from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE has stepped up their periodic checks of passengers on trains and buses. This means that anyone traveling on Amtrak or Greyhound, for example, face the prospect of a uniformed and/or non-uniformed...Read More
In Vahora v. Holder, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals examined “changed circumstances” as it pertains to the one-year bar to political asylum. The Court held that “changed circumstances” do not necessarily require a completely new conflict in the applicant’s country of origin nor does it preclude an applicant who has always feared persecution from...Read More
The Supreme Court will hear a case challenging the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision Matter of Blake, 23 I&N Dec. 722 (BIA 2005). In Matter of Blakethe BIA ruled that a person found removable based on an aggravated felony conviction (sexual abuse of a minor) was not eligible for a 212(c) waiver because there was...Read More
