FROM BEIRUT TO BROAD STREET: HOW TACOS AL PASTOR TELL THE STORY OF IMMIGRATION
Last week, my wife and I were dining with our friends at Li-Beirut, a delightful new Lebanese BYOB in Collingswood. As we were enjoying the delicious mix of mezze on our table, my mind started to drift, as it often does, to immigration and how interconnected our...
!BACHATEAME MAMA! How US Immigration (and New York City) Helped Turn Rural Dominican Music into a Worldwide Phenomenon
For better or worse, anybody who has ever spent more than 5 minutes in my office would know that I play bachata music throughout the workday. I also like to dance Bachata (which I do poorly) and take weekly classes with the great Laurel Card to improve my...
YOU DOWN WITH BFD? YEAH, YOU KNOW ME. USCIS Changes their Policy for Immigrant Victims of Crime
Congress created the U nonimmigrant visa in 2000 when it passed the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act. The purpose of the U visa was to encourage immigrants to report crimes to law enforcement and also to afford protection for those willing to...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Biden’s First Months in Office
President Biden has been in office for around three months. On the campaign trail, he made plenty of bold promises about immigration reform –– has he delivered? In some areas, massive strides have been made to defend the rights of immigrants. In other areas, he’s...
WTF is DED? DEFERRED ENFORCED DEPARTURE IS A HALF MEASURE FOR DESPERATE VENEZUELAN NATIONALS
Late in the evening of January 19, 2021, in one of their last official acts, on the Seditionist, Traitor Trump Administration granted Deferred Enforced Departure for Venezuelan Nationals. Deferred Enforced Departure, or “DED,” is a form of relief from removal. It...
LAME DUCK’S REVENGE: TRUMP’S MIDNIGHT REGULATIONS WILL CONTINUE TO HURT IMMIGRANTS EVEN AFTER HE IS GONE
Since losing “bigly” (sic) in the presidential election of November 3rd, 2020, the Trump administration, in addition to ignoring a growing pandemic and economic meltdown, embarrassing themselves in courtroom after courtroom, and losing the State of Georgia...
Practicing Immigration Law in the Age of COVID-19
Like the vast majority of society, the past 9 months have been some of the most challenging and traumatic of our lives. Practicing immigration law in the age of COVID-19 has been a humbling experience. After a brief...
Six immigration actions that we are likely to see early in Joe Biden’s administration
It’s over! From the moment Donald Trump descended his golden escalator, proclaiming Mexicans “Drug dealers, criminals and rapists,” my colleagues, clients and I have been fighting an asymmetric war against a motivated anti-immigrant policy machine. Thanks...
THIS LAND IS MY LAND: FROM WONG KIM ARK TO KAMALA HARRIS, BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP AND THE 14TH AMENDMENT
Last week, as Not My President started the inevitable and desperate ‘birtherism” arguments against Kamala Harris, my mind started racing back to the fall of 2005, when I was a 3L at Villanova Law School and attending the great Bill Stock’s immigration law class. ...
In Honor of Memorial Day: Military Service and Immigration Law
From the Marquis de Lafayette to the Iraqi and Afghan translators today, immigrant soldiers have always fought and often died in the defense American values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Immigrant soldiers have been members of the United States...
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