The U.S. government on Friday announced changes to the agency that runs the country’s immigration courts (EOIR), giving its director authority to weigh in and make appellate rulings on cases.…
26 Aug
On July 23, 2019, The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced that it has expanded the use of expedited removal. The changes are effective immediately and are wide-ranging. Expedited Removal…
29 Jul
Recently, Attorney General William Barr announced changes to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in a stated effort to reduce the huge backlog in immigration courts (approaching 1 million pending…
19 Jun
Under federal law, it has long been illegal to possess, purchase, sell, or use marijuana. Over the past 6 years, 33 states and the District of Columbia have legalized medicinal…
22 Apr
New estimates of the undocumented population in the United States confirm a trend that has been apparent for several years: the number of people who become undocumented each year by…
28 Mar
Despite the fact that Congress refused to fund President Trump’s border wall and the fact that there was abundant evidence that no actual emergency exists, Trump declared a state of…
21 Feb
President Donald Trump's expectations that the Supreme Court would hand him a win in talks over the government shutdown have been dashed. On Tuesday, January 22, the Justices took no…
28 Jan
On December 19, 2018, a federal court in Washington, D.C. struck down Trump administration policies that sought to eviscerate asylum protections for immigrants fleeing domestic violence and gang brutality. The…
20 Dec
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