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Deportation and Removal Blog

  • May 17, 2013 9:31 am
    They Were Happily Married For 16 Years. Paid Taxes. Never Had A Parking Ticket. So We Deported Him. Continue reading >>
  • May 10, 2013 10:59 am
    50,468 new Immigration Prosecutions in First Six Months of FY 2013 Syracuse University's TRAC Immigration has reported that in the first six months of fiscal year 2013 there have been 50,468 new immigration prosecutions, which is an estimated 9% increase from the previous year. TRAC provides the following a historical perspective: They report that in March 2013 alone there were 7715 criminal defendants in immigration related cases filed in U.S. Magistrate Courts. Statistics show that 66.4% of all charges alleged violation of 8 U.S.C § 1325, Entry of alien at improper time or place, and 29.5% of all charges were for violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326, Reentry of deported alien.... Continue reading >>
  • May 2, 2013 8:45 am
    Suggestions for what can be done to ensure Due Process in Immigration Court Proceedings The true obstacle to due process and fundamental fairness in civil removal proceedings is the harsh consequences of mandatory detention, and the administration's overtly castigatory immigration hold and detention policy that removes aliens from their support network vitiating both their ability and will to fight removal. Current detention policies are penal in nature, and erode an individual’s ability to obtain counsel where an individual may be detained for months if not years while challenging removal. The elimination of the mandatory detention provisions of INA § 236(c), especially as applied to lawful permanent residents, will immediately address this concern. This change... Continue reading >>
  • May 1, 2013 8:47 am
    Infiltration Leads to DHS Opening Civil Rights Investigations into ICE From DREAMActivist.org: NATIONAL—After being infiltrated and exposed by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will now have to comply with a civil rights investigation by the Department of Homeland Security into five separate incidents of detainee mistreatment. NIYA will make the communication from DHS (with personal case information redacted) available to reporters upon request. In response to infiltration of ICE facilities in Florida and Michigan, ICE has accused NIYA twice of making false allegations. Every single detainee ICE releases because of our organizing, however, stands as a small admission of guilt from the agency. With this forthcoming... Continue reading >>
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Immigration Blog

  • May 13, 2013
    CONDITIONAL PERMANENT RESIDENCY APPROVED FOR VISA WAIVER CLIENT Our client is a native and citizen of Italy. She has previously been in the United States on a temporary basis as a J-1 exchange visitor, during which time she met and fell in love with her United States citizen husband. Our client was not subject to the 2-year foreign residency requirement for J-1 exchange visitors. The couple planned to get married in Italy this summer, and our client’s husband intended to petition for her and she Continue reading >>
  • May 6, 2013
    L-1A Function Manager Petition Approved, Abandonment of Permanent Residence Handled at Border Our client is a Canadian citizen who is employed as the Senior Lead Hand of a Canadian company that fabricates specialty architectural features. He has more than 21 years of experience in manufacturing and welding, first as a welder, and then as a supervisor. His job duties require him to manage the welding and fitting operations at the company’s production facility. The company wished to transfer our client to its United States affiliate Continue reading >>
  • May 1, 2013
    L-1B SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE RENEWAL PETITION APPROVED IN ONE HOUR Our client is a Canadian citizen. He is employed as Vice President of Strategic Business Development for a Canadian IT consulting firm, and was previously approved in L-1B status on behalf of the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary in the United States. Following the approval of an initial L-1B petition, a reorganization of the corporate structure took place whereby the U.S. company became an affiliate of the Canadian corporation. The U.S. Continue reading >>
  • Apr 26, 2013
    13th TN Management Consultant Approved In Less Than One Hour Our client, a Canadian citizen, is a successful Management Consultant with over 33 years of experience whose services are contracted for throughout the world. She is under contract to a U.S. management consultant firm that provides consulting services to business, organizations and individuals so that they can improve their effectiveness, develop leadership qualities, operate more effectively and generate more income. We first started Continue reading >>
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U.S. Immigration News

  • May 10, 2013
    Four immigration officials charged with bribery, fraud "On Wednesday, federal prosecutors announced charges against Anders, Figueroa, Lovingood, Dominguez and a client of Lee's, Mirei Gia Hofmann. The current and former immigration officials were indicted Tuesday on charges including conspiracy, bribery, fraud and misuse of government seals. Hofmann faces a single count of immigration fraud." Click here for more of this US immigration news update. Continue reading >>
  • May 8, 2013
    Immigration Bill Faces Hundreds Of Amendments, Including On LGBT Rights "Some of the potential pitfalls for the bipartisan Senate immigration reform bill came into focus on Tuesday when Judiciary Committee members filed 300 amendments, ranging from worker visa changes to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The 18-member committee will begin discussion Thursday on those amendments to the so-called gang of eight's "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act." As Continue reading >>
  • May 7, 2013
    U.S. think tank's immigration study draws conservative fire "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. think tank headed by former Republican Senator Jim DeMint drew fire from fellow conservatives Monday for concluding that the citizenship proposals in a sweeping immigration reform bill would cost taxpayers trillions. The clash underscored divisions within the Republican Party over bipartisan immigration legislation in the Senate backed by Democratic President Barack Obama. The Heritage Foundation, in a Continue reading >>
  • May 3, 2013
    Immigration Plan Assailed in New Attack on Cost by DeMint "The most significant revision of U.S. immigration laws in a generation will come under a new line of attack for its potential costs to public programs including Social Security and Medicare. Jim DeMint, a former Republican senator from South Carolina and now president of the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, will lead the assault with a report from his Republican-leaning institute as early as next week on the costs government would bear in Continue reading >>
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