Although they were acquitted on some counts, three California lawyers were convicted yesterday after a three-month federal trial in Sacramento, Calif., in what prosecutors describe as an audacious asylum scam.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an alien fighting his deportation on the ground that his bank fraud conviction wasn’t based on a statute requiring proof of losses above…
The U.S. Supreme Court is giving a chance to a former serviceman seeking to set aside his guilty plea in a court martial based on allegations his lawyer was drunk…
Updated: Only days before President Barack Obama took office, then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey issued an opinion finding that noncitizens have no right to counsel in deportation proceedings and hence can’t…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an immigrant who made up a Social Security number to obtain work is not guilty of ID theft if he had no knowledge…
Updated: A court of appeals retains its traditional authority to grant stays in deportation cases, despite a 1996 statute that limited the circumstances in which courts may block the removal…
Zeituni Onyango praised God as she left a closed hearing Wednesday in Boston during which an immigration judge gave her until Feb. 4, 2010, to prepare yet another argument against…
The Kenyan aunt of President Barack Obama is expected to present new evidence in federal court today seeking to reverse a nearly five-year-old deportation order.
The backlog of immigration cases is so dense that it took at least two years for 90,000 people accused of being in the U.S. illegally to get a judge to…
Sen. John Kerry has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to grant asylum to a gay man married in Massachusetts who was deported despite his rape in Brazil.
Supporters are charging that a Los Angeles lawyer’s controversial litigation work on immigration issues cost him a job as chief of the Justice Department’s civil rights division.
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