Up to 13,500 immigrants who have received asylum may be deported because the law firms they used were found to be coaching them in what to say,
NPR reported last Friday.
Oct 3, 2018 4:43 PM CDT
The Trump administration has begun denying visas to the same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and UN officials,
Foreign Policy reports.
Oct 2, 2018 4:36 PM CDT
Hundreds of immigrant children in federal custody are being moved to a tent city erected in the Texas desert during the family separation policy, the
New York Times reported Sunday.
Oct 2, 2018 6:00 AM CDT
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed the importance of preserving and promoting the rule of law while defending U.S. Department of Justice policies regarding illegal immigration and foreign meddling in U.S. elections.
Oct 1, 2018 12:45 AM CDT
Women in law already face unique challenges, and a new study appears to show that a large number of female attorneys with more than 20 years of practice are leaving the profession.
Oct 1, 2018 12:36 AM CDT
Roberta Liebenberg (left) and JoAnne Epps at “Long-Term Careers for Women in Law: What’s Pushing Women Out and What Can We Do to Keep Them in the Profession?” Photo by Kathy Anderson.
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Attorneys who’ve spent their careers concentrating on immigration law and child welfare have been scrambling to deal with the fallout of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Oct 1, 2018 12:25 AM CDT
Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe, Maria Woltjen, Kimi Jackson, Anne Chandler and Angela C. Vigil at the ABA Annual Meeting’s panel “Families on the Precipice: Navigating the Separation, Detention, and Reunification of Families at the U.S. Border.”
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Gov. Jerry Brown’s defiant posture underscores how U.S. states and municipalities are increasingly venturing into the realm of international affairs as they mobilize against Trump administration policies in areas such as the environment, immigration and human rights.
Oct 1, 2018 12:05 AM CDT
A retired Episcopal priest with permanent residence status who has been applying for U.S. citizenship may face deportation after disclosing that he voted in a federal midterm election in 2006.
Sep 24, 2018 5:30 PM CDT
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ruled that immigration judges have no inherent authority to dismiss cases, provoking an outcry from immigration-law-focused groups.
Reuters and
CNN have stories.
Sep 24, 2018 6:05 AM CDT
A Justice Department review of its own legal education program for immigrants has found that those in the program are remaining in detention for longer on average than non-participants, the
Associated Press has reported. But a nonprofit that provides the education says the DOJ’s study has "insurmountable methodological flaws."
Sep 21, 2018 3:55 PM CDT
A retiring military judge whose handling of a Guantanamo military trial raised eyebrows appears to have been hired as an immigration judge,
the Miami Herald reported last Friday.
Sep 18, 2018 2:05 PM CDT
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has failed to coordinate or clear appearance dates with federal courts in six cities, the Dallas Morning News reports.
Some people received documents with…
Sep 17, 2018 11:16 AM CDT
The federal government has agreed to settle three lawsuits over the Trump administration’s policy of separating families seeking asylum in the United States.
Vox, the Washington Post and…
Sep 14, 2018 7:01 AM CDT
A federal rule to be proposed Friday would effectively withdraw the United States from a decades-old settlement regarding the treatment of unaccompanied immigrant minors, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
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Sep 6, 2018 4:11 PM CDT
In the summer of 2014, as unaccompanied minor immigrants arrived at the border en masse, Stephen Manning was focused on a lesser-noticed but equally pressing problem: representing mothers with young children in family detention.
Sep 1, 2018 2:25 AM CDT