After the president announced a shift in immigration policy regarding young immigrants, commentators and immigration advocates say that a surge in immigration scams has developed. Immigration groups say that con artists are preying on young immigrants, offering to...
Deportation and Removal
Government adopts proposals to streamline immigration court cases
Immigration officials announced last year that they would review the huge backlog of cases in immigration court, at least in part, to reduce the backlog. That announcement was in relation to the policy of prosecutorial discretion, an issue previously covered here. Now...
Supreme Court hands down its ruling on Arizona’s state immigration law
The United States Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling on state immigration laws. People all across the country have been waiting for the ruling, including people in Florida. The Florida legislature considered several similar measures, especially last...
White House to announce policy to halt deportation for certain young immigrants
The White House reportedly is making an immigration policy change that will give many young undocumented immigrants essentially some of the benefits of the DREAM Act without waiting for the measure to make it through Congress. Sources say that the White House policy...
Immigration reviews under fire from groups seeking immigration reform
The federal government recently announced that the review process in the roughly 300,000 backlogged deportation cases has resulted in fewer than 2 percent of deportation cases being closed under the review for whether or not the cases are appropriate for prosecutorial...
Woman adopted by U.S. citizen 30-years ago now faces deportation, P. 2
In the last post, this blog began a discussion of a 30-year-old woman's plight in immigration court. The woman was adopted when she was three-months-old in 1982. Her mother died roughly 8-years later and had never sought to file citizenship paperwork for the child....
Woman adopted by U.S. citizen 30-years ago now faces deportation, P. 1
A 30-year-old woman is facing deportation after a panel of judges in the Mountain States ruled that she is too old to qualify for U.S. citizenship under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. That law was passed to modify rules for child citizenship among foreign...
Supreme Court rules against immigrants seeking deportation leniency
The United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that an undocumented immigrant brought to the United States by his or her parents as a child cannot avoid deportation based upon the parent's immigration status and years of legal residency under an immigration...
Human rights group seeks immigration reform to protect women
The international rights group Human Rights Watch has issued a new report that says female migrant and seasonal farm workers are highly vulnerable to sexual violence and sexual harassment. The research shows that women working in the agricultural sector nationwide are...
Florida Supreme Court hears issues that may affect immigrants
Immigration-related issues have been the focus in the Florida Supreme Court this week. Tuesday, the Court heard oral argument in three criminal appeals based upon a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held that a criminal defense lawyer who fails to warn an...