The Team America Built — and Is Trying to Deport
Donald Trump posted on Truth Social after the US beat Paraguay 4-1 in their World Cup opener. “Congratulations to Team USA on their Big Win,” he wrote. He did not attend the match. But he has spent the better part of two years trying to dismantle the legal framework...
The USCIS Request For Evidence Surge: What’s Driving It and What Your Firm Can Do
Is your immigration firm being flooded with RFEs right now — many of them asking for documents you already submitted? It’s not just you, and you’re not missing something. It’s happening to firms everywhere, across every case type — I-129s, I-140s, I-485s, I-864s, you...
International Students in the United States: What You Should Be Thinking About Now (Not Just at Graduation)
If you are an international student in the United States, immigration law does not begin at graduation. It begins the moment you enter in F-1 status. Right now, international students are navigating a climate of heightened scrutiny, processing delays, unpredictable...
The Hidden Economic Cost: How Immigration Policy Is Quietly Reshaping the American Economy
Over the past year, while Americans have been focused on inflation at the grocery store and mortgage rates that won’t budge, a different economic shift has been unfolding with almost no public attention: The United States experienced negative net migration for the...
You Are Not Powerless: How Philadelphians Can Help Their Neighbors
If you’ve been following recent reports of immigration enforcement actions and wondered how you can respond, this post is for you. The Constitution doesn’t just protect our rights—it empowers us to use them. And here in Philadelphia, we’ve got a long tradition of...
From Ellis Island to Minneapolis: How We Got Here
On the morning of January 7, 2026, an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in south Minneapolis during a federal immigration enforcement operation. She was 37, a mother of three children, and a U.S. citizen. She was sitting in her Honda Pilot on a residential...
Ralph Lazo: When they came for his friends, he went with them. What would you do?
Here’s a question that should make you uncomfortable: If your government started rounding up your friends tomorrow—loading them onto buses, sending them to camps surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers—would you get on the bus with them? Most of us like to think we...
USCIS Freezes Asylum Processing and Immigration Benefits Following National Guard Shooting
On November 26, 2025, two members of the West Virginia National Guard, deployed to Washington, D.C., as part of a controversial federal deployment ordered by President Trump without local consent, were shot near the White House. Just one week earlier, a federal judge...
OPINION: Kilmar Ábrego García and Our Constitutional Crisis
Kilmar Ábrego García fled El Salvador as a teenager, running from gang violence that would have consumed him. For fourteen years, he built America—literally. His hands laid the concrete, raised the steel, and constructed the roads and buildings that form the backbone...
Trump’s new Policies are threatening international Enrollment
SHG Partner Matthew I. Hirsch was quoted at length in a recent article on the impact of the Administration's abusive enforcement agenda on international students and the nation's colleges and universities. The article, published in the Bucks County (PA) Beacon,...
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