• ---

  Article : DACA Has Allowed Me to Pursue Education, But We Need A Permanent Solution Now by American Immigration Council Staff for Immigration Impact

  • Published: 07-06-2021, 09:42 AM
  • 41 views
  • 0 comments

  Article : DACA Has Allowed Me to Pursue Education, But We Need A Permanent Solution Now by American Immigration Council Staff for Immigration Impact

  DACA Has Allowed Me to Pursue Education, But We Need A Permanent Solution Now by American Immigration Council Staff My name is Hali Calzadillas-Andujo and I’m originally from Chihuahua, Mexico. I first came to the United States with my mother and siblings when I was eight years old. I didn’t even know what it meant, really, except that I was rejoining my father. I came to Santa Fe, New Mexico and have been here ever since. Growing up here was difficult. I saw my parents workin...

  See more | Go to post

• ---

  Article: Will Immigrant Investors and Regional Centers Benefit From Court Win or Has Time Run Out? by Leslie Dellon for Immigration Impact

  • Published: 07-02-2021, 07:24 AM
  • 65 views
  • 0 comments

  Article: Will Immigrant Investors and Regional Centers Benefit From Court Win or Has Time Run Out? by Leslie Dellon for Immigration Impact

  Will Immigrant Investors and Regional Centers Benefit From Court Win or Has Time Run Out? by Leslie Dellon A recent court win that restored lower minimum investment amounts was good news for regional centers and immigrant investors in the EB-5 program. But the bad news is the EB-5 regional center program will end on June 30, because Congress did not extend it. While Congress may restore the program, it’s uncertain how long immigrant investors and regional centers will be in li...

  See more | Go to post

• ---

  Article: Immigration in the Supreme Court, 2020 Term by Kevin R. Johnson for ImmigrationProf Blog

  • Published: 06-30-2021, 11:36 AM
  • 116 views
  • 0 comments

  Article: Immigration in the Supreme Court, 2020 Term by Kevin R. Johnson for ImmigrationProf Blog

  Immigration in the Supreme Court, 2020 Term by Kevin R. Johnson In the 2020 Term, the Supreme Court decided five immigration cases. The U.S. government prevailed in four of the five cases, an 80 percent success rate. This rate was higher than that seen in recent Terms. In my estimation, there are no blockbusters among the five immigration decisions. The decisions primarily focused on interpreting the complexities of the Immigration & Nationality Act. The cases are in the chronological...

  See more | Go to post

• ---

  Article: Scientific Evidence Shows Assumptions About Asylum Seekers’ Memory Are Wrong by Jocelyn Dyer for Immigration Impact

  • Published: 06-30-2021, 06:25 AM
  • 113 views
  • 0 comments

  Article: Scientific Evidence Shows Assumptions About Asylum Seekers’ Memory Are Wrong by Jocelyn Dyer for Immigration Impact

  Scientific Evidence Shows Assumptions About Asylum Seekers’ Memory Are Wrong by Jocelyn Dyer How well should someone be able to remember every detail of a traumatic event? The U.S. government argues people should have a near perfect memory to obtain asylum—even if they experienced the trauma years in the past. Due to unprecedented backlogs in immigration court and the Asylum office, U.S. officials ask asylum seekers to describe details about the harms they suffered in thei...

  See more | Go to post

• ---

  Article: Reflections on Giuliani’s Suspension of his New York Bar License by Cyrus Mehta

  • Published: 06-29-2021, 01:43 PM
  • 161 views
  • 0 comments

  Article: Reflections on Giuliani’s Suspension of his New York Bar License by Cyrus Mehta

  Reflections on Giuliani's Suspension of his New York Bar License by Cyrus Mehta The temporary suspension of Rudolph Giuliani’s bar license by a New York appellate court for making false statements on behalf of Donald Trump’s election is thought provoking for lawyers, especially those who have opposed Trump and continue to oppose him. The court wrote that “these false statements were made to improperly bolster respondent’s narrative that due to widespread voter fraud, victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen from his client.” The court further stated t...

  See more | Go to post

• ---

  Article: Biden Will Admit Asylum Seekers Ordered Deported Under Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols by Melissa Cruz for Immigration Impact

  • Published: 06-28-2021, 09:58 AM
  • 66 views
  • 0 comments

  Article: Biden Will Admit Asylum Seekers Ordered Deported Under Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols by Melissa Cruz for Immigration Impact

  Biden Will Admit Asylum Seekers Ordered Deported Under Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols by Melissa Cruz Asylum seekers who were ordered deported for missing their U.S. court hearings under the Trump administration’s so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)—informally known as the “Remain in Mexico” program—will be allowed to restart their proceedings in the United States. Thousands of others whose cases were terminated because of p...

  See more | Go to post

• ---

  Article: Two Days at the Nogales Border by Raquel Aldana

  • Published: 06-25-2021, 07:08 AM
  • 54 views
  • 0 comments

  Article: Two Days at the Nogales Border by Raquel Aldana

  Two Days at the Nogales Border by Raquel Aldana We parked our cars on the U.S. side of the border at an empty parking lot in the desolate, hot Sonoran desert landscape. We were a small team of four: a lawyer, a student legal intern, a community organizer, and I, a law professor from King Hall. I was there to volunteer with a small team of attorneys from Arizona which has been coming to the Nogales border for the past four years to provide legal orientations to asylum-seekers. In recent months...

  See more | Go to post

• ---

  Article - What's Old is New Again - $500K EB-5 is Back (or is it?) by Matt Gordon

  • Published: 06-23-2021, 10:33 AM
  • 284 views
  • 0 comments

  Article - What's Old is New Again - $500K EB-5 is Back (or is it?) by Matt Gordon

  What's Old is New Again - $500K EB-5 is Back (or is it?) by Matt Gordon On June 22, 2021, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the US District Court Northern District of California granted summary judgement to the plaintiff Behring Regional Center in BEHRING REGIONAL CENTER LLC, v. Chad Wolf (Case No. 20-cv-09263-JSC) vacating the final rule promulgated by the Department of Homeland Security in July 2019 related to the EB-5 program. For a copy of the decision see this link: https://v9b5q2c...

  See more | Go to post

• ---

  Article - Congress Proposes Legislation to Expedite and Expand Special Immigrant Visas for Afghan Allies by Neel Agarwal for Immigration Impact

  • Published: 06-23-2021, 06:56 AM
  • 38 views
  • 0 comments

  Article - Congress Proposes Legislation to Expedite and Expand Special Immigrant Visas for Afghan Allies by Neel Agarwal for Immigration Impact

  Congress Proposes Legislation to Expedite and Expand Special Immigrant Visas for Afghan Allies by Neel Agarwal As military troops withdraw from Afghanistan, Afghan nationals that supported the operations of the U.S. government—as translators and other vital roles—are in danger of violent retribution from Taliban forces. The Department of State offers resettlement to eligible Afghans through the special immigrant visa program, but slow processing and significant backlogs have...

  See more | Go to post

• ---

  Article: Interim Guidance-Civil Immigration Enforcement and Removal Policies by David H. Nachman, Esq.

  • Published: 06-21-2021, 11:12 AM
  • 149 views
  • 0 comments

  Article: Interim Guidance-Civil Immigration Enforcement and Removal Policies by David H. Nachman, Esq.

  Interim Guidance-Civil Immigration Enforcement and Removal Policies by David H. Nachman, Esq. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) delivered interim guidance (Johnson Memorandum) on February 18, 2021 that became effective immediately regarding priorities for custody decisions, financial expenditures, enforcement planning, strategic planning, and implementation of final orders of removal. Thereafter, on May 27, 2021, Acting General Counsel Joseph B. Maher issued a memorandum...

  See more | Go to post