June 24, 2024

DOJ: Support for Workers’ Deferred Action Requests to DHS

DOJ, June 20, 2024 "To fulfill the Civil Rights Division’s law enforcement mission, witnesses must feel safe reporting violations to the Civil Rights Division and participating in its investigations and enforcement actions without fear of retaliation, including immigration consequences. This fact sheet explains to workers and their advocates how the Civil Rights Division can support a worker’s request...

June 24, 2024

Expert: "Lawyers Are Critical" In Immigration Court Cases

David Olson, Newsday, June 23, 2024 "Julio Zambrano arrived in Manhattan before dawn on Jan. 4 with his two young sons after a months-long trek from Ecuador, three of more than 200,000 migrants who have come to New York City in the past two years. By early this month, Zambrano's future was still as much in limbo as when he arrived. He was awaiting an immigration court hearing to show why he "should not...

June 20, 2024

Cruel Indifference: Family Separation at the U.S.-Mexico Border Before and After Zero Tolerance

Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic, Center for Immigration Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law, June 2024 "This white paper addresses two misconceptions. The first is that family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border began under the administration of former President Trump. The second is that they ended with the election of President Biden. Rather, the separation of families has long been a feature of CBP enforcement...

June 20, 2024

Expert: Biden Visa Initiative "Great News For Employers"

Stuart Anderson, Forbes, June 19, 2024 " “The parole in place provisions for undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens will get more press attention, but the other administrative action may be just as important,” said Cornell Law School professor Stephen Yale-Loehr , an advisor to the National Foundation for American Policy. “Employers have been reluctant to use the D-3 waiver because the process...

June 20, 2024

Getting Ready for President Biden’s Immigration Program

Flyer in English and Spanish from the UNLV Immigration Clinic.

June 19, 2024

Experts: Biden Initiative Will Benefit DACA Beneficiaries

Miriam Jordan, New York Times, June 19, 2024 "President Biden on Tuesday announced an initiative that could be life-changing for hundreds of thousands of undocumented young adults, known as Dreamers, whose ability to live and work in the United States has long been tied to a temporary immigration program that has been on life support. The new directive will enable many beneficiaries of an Obama-era program known...

June 18, 2024

Is USCIS Union-Busting?

Dominick Ocampo, KLKN, June 17, 2024 "Union members made their voices heard Monday afternoon outside the local United States Citizenship and Immigration Services office amid impending layoffs. The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Local 808 Union called upon the federal government to halt mass layoffs occurring nationwide and accused the agency of union busting. In April, 110 USCIS workers...

June 18, 2024

Federal Court Enjoins Iowa Immigration Law: Supremacy Clause Preemption

USA v. Iowa "Dissatisfied with how the United States Government is handling immigration, the Iowa Legislature decided to take matters into its own hands by enacting new legislation (known as Senate File 2340) that, among other things: (i) imposes criminal penalties under state law for certain immigration-related offenses; and (ii) requires state court judges to order noncitizens to return to the foreign countries...

June 18, 2024

Parole in Place: DHS and White House Fact Sheets

The DHS Fact Sheet is here . The White House Fact Sheet is here . At approx. 12:45 Eastern Time, President Biden will host an event marking the 12th anniversary of DACA; live video will be here .

June 17, 2024

DACA: The Trillion-Dollar Dream

Coalition for the American Dream, June 2024 "In response to these real threats to DACA, the Coalition for the American Dream gathered some of the country’s most respected social scientists to quantify the costs of ending DACA—including for DACA recipients, other individuals who remain eligible for the policy, their families and their communities, and for the broader U.S. economy. In pure economic terms...

June 17, 2024

Grant Deferred Action to Aging Out Children!

Cyrus Mehta, June 17, 2024 "Children of beneficiaries of approved I-140 petitions that are caught in the employment-based backlogs are in danger of aging out if they turn 21 and are unable to obtain permanent resident status with their parents. Although the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) is able to protect the age of some children from aging out, not all children can benefit from the CSPA especially when neither...

June 14, 2024

Expert: "A presidential proclamation isn't going to stop" migration

Newsweek, June 12, 2024 "There is only so much any president can do to manage border flows," Stephen Yale-Loehr , professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York, told Newsweek. "People flee their homes for many reasons, including persecution, war, climate change, and poverty. A presidential proclamation isn't going to stop that." Only "a multipronged approach...

June 13, 2024

Groups Sue Biden Administration Over New Anti-Asylum Rule

ACLU, June 12, 2024 "Immigrants’ rights groups today sued the Biden administration over the president’s proclamation and a new rule that severely restricts asylum and puts thousands of lives at risk. The American Civil Liberties Union, National Immigrant Justice Center, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Jenner & Block LLP, ACLU of the District of Columbia, and Texas Civil Rights Project...

June 11, 2024

AILA Presents Treatise Co-Author Steve Yale-Loehr with Juceam Founders Award

[NOTE: Steve is the co-author of the 22-volume "Bible" of immigration law, Immigration Law & Procedure , a.k.a. "the Treatise," published by LexisNexis.] AILA, June 11, 2024 "The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) recognizes Stephen Yale-Loehr with the Robert Juceam Founders Award, which is given from time to time to the person or entity having the most substantial impact...

June 10, 2024

Immigrant America: A Portrait

UCI School of Social Sciences, May 7, 2024 "In their newly released edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait (University of California Press), UCI Distinguished Professor of sociology Rubén G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes of both Princeton University and the University of Miami, provide their fifth decennial update of the "permanently unfinished" story of immigration to the U.S. A modern classic...

June 07, 2024

Expert: Immigration Litigants Prepared

Will Weissert, Associated Press, June 6, 2024 “The second Trump administration, if there is one, will be better prepared,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr , a professor of immigration law practice at Cornell University. He noted that the first Trump administration often saw its policies halted by rulemaking and procedural mistakes that it could fix this time around — it could use past legal decisions to find...

June 07, 2024

AILA Press Briefing Held June 6, 2024 Regarding Implementation of Border IFR

AILA, June 6, 2024 - AILA Doc. No. 24060612 "Press Briefing Held June 6, 2024, Regarding Implementation of Border IFR" Audio here . Transcript here .

June 06, 2024

Expert: Exceptions in Biden's Asylum Proclamation Could Make Litigation a "Close Call"

Britain Eakin, Law360, June 5, 2024 "The new border regime that President Joe Biden rolled out this week relies on legal provisions that courts largely barred the Trump administration from using to restrict entry, but exceptions in Biden's policy could offer insulation from adverse rulings this time. ... That could make the case "a close call if it goes to the Supreme Court," said Cornell Law School...

June 05, 2024

Expert: Biden's Border Proclamation "A Political Statement"

Nicole Narea, Vox, June 4, 2024 "President Joe Biden issued a new proclamation on Tuesday that bars asylum seekers who cross the border without permission from applying for protections in the US when migrant crossings exceed a daily average of 2,500 in a week. It is arguably the most restrictive measure Biden has taken yet on the US-Mexico border. ... Courts haven’t fully articulated the limits on the president’s...

June 05, 2024

Oh, The Irony

Biden proclaims June 2024 as National Immigrant Heritage Month

June 04, 2024

Expert: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Not Happening Soon

Aline Barros, VOA, June 3, 2024 "Despite years of debate and numerous proposals, the United States has accomplished next to nothing on immigration reform. In recent years, attempts to modernize U.S. immigration law have been made through a series of legislative efforts; none has achieved a significant breakthrough. “We are nowhere and we’re not getting anywhere,” according to the Brookings Institution’s...

June 04, 2024

Fact Sheet: Presidential Proclamation to Suspend and Limit Entry and Joint DHS-DOJ Interim Final Rule to Restrict Asylum During High Encounters at the Southern Border

DHS, June 4, 2024 "...President Biden issued a Presidential Proclamation to temporarily suspend the entry of noncitizens across the southern border. The Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General also jointly issued an interim final rule that, consistent with the Proclamation, generally restricts asylum eligibility for those who irregularly enter across the southern border – including the Southwest...

June 04, 2024

Presidential Proclamation on Securing the Border; Fact Sheet

White House, June 4, 2024 Proclamation Fact Sheet

June 03, 2024

AILA Policy Brief: Presidential Authority to Block or Expel Migrants

AILA Doc. No. 24060300, June 3, 2024 "President Biden is considering restricting the number of migrants who can enter the United States and barring asylum seekers for extended periods. AILA would oppose this policy if it prevents asylum seekers from receiving fair and accurate consideration of their requests for asylum. ... While the legality of the new policy depends on its details, at least one federal court...

June 03, 2024

Experts: Migrant Influx Fuels Push For Right To Immigration Counsel

Marco Poggio, Law360, May 31, 2024 "What Judge Dana Leigh Marks saw countless times from her bench on the San Francisco Immigration Court were David-and-Goliath-type fights. Noncitizens, many of them having fled poverty in their home countries and having only modest educations, compete against U.S. government lawyers seeking to have them deported. "Most people are very nervous, if not terrified," she...