Updated: Six attorneys are among 21 employees of 10 law firms in New York City who have been criminally charged in federal court in Manhattan with participating in a claimed…
A group of civil and immigrant rights organizations challenged an executive order by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Thursday which denies driver’s licenses to some youths who recently received immigration relief…
A federal appeals court panel has reversed the immigration fraud conviction of a disbarred New York lawyer, finding that his constitutional right to a public trial was violated because the…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday considered the reach of a decision holding that criminal defense lawyers have a Sixth Amendment obligation to warn their clients when a guilty plea…
Hurricane Sandy has had a tremendous impact on the week’s events for those who were caught in its path or worried from afar about loved ones living in affected areas.…
President Barack Obama effectively wrote into law the failed DREAM Act when his administration announced in June that it would not deport many illegal aliens under 30 who came to…
Sixteen years after Roman Baret’s guilty plea in 1996 to criminal sale of a controlled substance, a New York appeals court has held that the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2010…
At least 10 people paid a disbarred South Carolina lawyer for immigration services he didn’t provide and authorities say they expect more victims to surface.
In an en banc ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that children of immigrants who are given derivative visas can immigrate with their parents to the…
Updated: A federal judge in Florida ruled this week that students in state-supported colleges and universities can’t be charged out-of-state tuition just because their parents are in the country illegally.
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