Effective next Monday, The Department of Justice, executive office for immigration review will implement a new rule which takes steps aimed at limiting the powers at dismantling immigration courts. “By collapsing the policymaking role with the adjudication role into a single individual, the Director of EOIR, an unconfirmed political appointee, the Immigration Court system has
Last week’s announcement by the Trump administration on limiting pathways to citizenship for certain immigrants has come to a crossroad with three northeastern states. Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, announced that Connecticut, Vermont, and New York had filed a lawsuit against the federal government and the agencies that would be enforcing the new rule
Rosita Lopez, a small business owner in Guatemala was threatened by gang members when they demanded payment. When they couldn’t make the payment, her partner was shot. Fearing they may lose their lives, they fled north to the United States. When she arrived at the US-Mexico border with her unborn eight month old and spouse,
A new regulation that was released last Monday morning by the Trump administration is geared toward dramatically limiting the amount of legal immigrants allowed to enter or stay in the United States. By limiting the amount of green card applicants and visa applicants, immigration to The United States could be reduced to half our current
Immigrants who have been detained by ICE or Border Patrol can ask the court for a bond hearing. The bond hearing is a separate legal proceeding from your immigration proceeding that determines if you should be removed from the United States. The bond hearing is held to determine if you should be kept in detention
Immigration authorities in a shocking move in major Mississippi cities raided local businesses and food processing plants, rounding up 680 undocumented immigrants. Friends and family members are still in shock that such extensive raids even occurred. A crowd of hundreds waited outside a plant in Morton, Mississippi begging for the release of their loved ones
The Trump Administration announced a new policy that would restrict the amount of asylum seekers that travel by land into the United States specifically targeting those traveling into the United States from Mexico and the U.S. border. This move may reduce the amount of Central and Southern Americans by the thousands in the months to
