A one-year suspension has been recommended for an Illinois sole practitioner who advertised for a secretary/legal assistant in an ad posted on the “adult gigs” section of Craigslist.
Corrected: In what could be the first such case in the United States, a California State Bar panel is set to decide whether to deny an applicant a law license…
Federal officials canceled the deportation proceedings of a Venezuelan man married to an American man this week in a closely watched case in New Jersey.
Citing limited resources, two memos Friday from Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton call for agents and attorneys to exercise discretion in deciding who should be targeted for enforcement.
A recusal by Justice Elena Kagan has resulted in a 4-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of whether a gender difference in the immigration law is…
Two employees of a Washington state immigration law firm are accused of pocketing $130,000 that they persuaded clients to give them in cash, supposedly to speed the clients’ cases along.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld an Arizona law penalizing businesses that hire undocumented immigrants by revoking or suspending their business licenses.
Immigration enforcement has “increased exponentially” in the last 10 years, creating burdens for courts straining to keep up with the caseloads, an ABA representative told Congress on Wednesday.
Thousands of people told that they won U.S. immigrant visas through a worldwide lottery recently received disappointing news after a computer problem in the State Department program was discovered, and…
Attorney General Eric Holder has asked the Board of Immigration Appeals to reconsider a ruling allowing the deportation of a gay man who is in a civil union recognized by…
Arrested last year for a traffic violation on campus at Kennesaw State University, a 22-year-old Georgia woman was nearly deported when authorities learned she had been brought to this country…
A U.S. district court judge did not abuse her discretion in blocking portions of Arizona’s 2010 law that aims to identify, prosecute and deport undocumented immigrants, the San Francisco-based 9th…
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