YOU DOWN WITH BFD? YEAH, YOU KNOW ME. USCIS Changes their U Visa 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. ...
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...
HISTORY AND FUTURE OF DACA: PART II
Since our first installment of the History and Future of DACA, quite a lot has happened. On June 18th, the Supreme Court, in a narrow 5-4 decision, held that the Trump administration illegally terminated DACA. Writing for the majority, newly woke Chief...
HISTORY AND FUTURE OF DACA, Part I
This will be a two-part story. In the first part, we will explore the history and development of Deferred Action as a Childhood Arrival (commonly referred to now as “DACA”), its requirements, the actions the Trump Regime took to dismantle the program, and the...
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