Civil rights attorneys in San Francisco have sued federal authorities demanding an end to the alleged practice of shackling all adult detainees–including the elderly and disabled–during immigration court proceedings. The class-action lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, contends that Immigration and Customs Enforcement...Read More
As comprehensive immigration reform remains unlikely in the current political climate while an impasse presides over Congress, a coalition of organizations have formed a report with proposed reforms in regulations affecting skilled foreign-born workers and students with advanced degrees. The groups include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , the American Council on International Personnel ,...Read More
As we previously informed, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it would provide prosecutorial discretion so as to provide relief for low priority immigration cases. DHS stated that a new committee will review 300,000 immigration cases currently in removal proceedings to determine which cases are low priority and can be administratively closed....Read More
More than a year after SB 1070 was initially taken to federal court, the immigration restrictionists behind Arizona’s misguided immigration law have brought their case to the Supreme Court. Proponents of SB 1070 deem the state’s petition as not only the first step toward reversing the injunction against the law’s most punitive provisions, but also...Read More
Image via Wikipedia Due to the fairly recent announcement made by theDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS) that it would henceforth focus its efforts on “high priority” immigration cases- specifically, those involving serious criminals who are a threat to national securityor public safety – it is shocking to hear that DHS officers stationed along the U.S.-Mexico...Read More
Image via Wikipedia In a case recently reviewed, the Board of Immigration Appeals(BIA) made the decision that even though immigrants must still be informed of their-albeit significantly more limited rights- upon being arrested, they, however, need not to be advised of their rights until after their interrogation has ended and formal deportation proceedings have already...Read More
The Case of Carlos Martinez Gutierrez, a young man who got caught smuggling three Mexican children into California, has reached the nation’s highest appellate court. The U.S. Supreme court has agreed to hear Gutierrez’s case, which raises questions potentially crucial for other children of illegal immigrants. If Gutierrez were to win, some immigrants may find...Read More
