Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times, Oct. 4, 2024 (gift link) "The Biden administration said Friday it would allow the temporary legal permission for migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, and Nicaragua...
Singh v. Garland (2-1) "Jaswinder Singh, a citizen and native of India, appeals the Board of Immigration’s (“BIA”) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”...
CGRS, Oct. 1, 2024 "Last night, a federal judge ruled in a case challenging the Biden administration’s policy of turning back asylum seekers who approach ports of entry along the southern...
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and National Immigration Litigation Alliance, Oct. 2, 2024 " FREE WEBINAR Today, Oct. 2 from 3-4pm Eastern, 2-3pm Central, 12-1 Pacific On September 26, a U...
USCIS, Oct. 2, 2024 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is issuing policy guidance in our Policy Manual to further clarify the types of evidence that we may evaluate to determine eligibility...
"The U.S. Supreme Court will issue a decision in the spring 2013 term in a criminal case, Descamps v. United States, that may have very beneficial implications for immigration cases. The issue relates to proper application of the categorical approach, which is the analysis used in federal proceedings to evaluate a prior conviction. The hope is that, if the Court limits modification of the categorical approach as expected, several types of criminal statutes that now are considered to be “divisible” so that a judge can look to the record of conviction to determine the immigration consequences, will have no or fewer such consequences as a matter of law, regardless of the record. For example, depending on the criminal statute of conviction, a good Descamps decision might mean that a client’s conviction for spousal battery, for broadly defined offenses regarding interaction with minors, or for some burglary offenses will no longer be a deportable or inadmissible offense. This update will briefly summarize the Descamps issue and identify types of cases that may benefit from a good decision." - Advisory authored by Kathy Brady, Immigrant Legal Resource Center and Isaac Wheeler, Immigrant Defense Project. The authors wish to acknowledge the helpful input of Dan Kesselbrenner of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild and the research assistance of Heather Vail, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties fellow at NYU School of Law. Copyright ILRC, IDP 2013.