CMS, July 5, 2024 "President Biden’s recent decision to extend parole-in-place to the undocumented spouses of US citizens who entered the country without inspection is a significant first...
DHS OIG, July 3, 2024 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) did not adjudicate affirmative asylum applications in a timely manner to meet statutory timelines and to reduce its existing...
Miliyon Ethiopis, July 8, 2024 "I feel like I have been born again, after a U.S. immigration court made a remarkable ruling in my “statelessness” case in June . I hope that my case will...
Identical DHS and DOS media notes are here and here . Media coverage here , here , here , here , here and here . The intent is to curtail irregular migration through the Darién Gap . [I have...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, July 1, 2024 "The conservative majority Supreme Court recently issued two decisions that will have a major impact on the administrative state by transferring power...
"Bring your I.D. when you leave your home. Refuse to talk about your immigration status if police stop you. And tell them you have an attorney. Those are among the tips Atlanta-area immigration attorneys are giving their clients now that a federal judge has cleared the way for police to start enforcing a hotly debated part of Georgia’s immigration law. The statute gives police the option to investigate the immigration status of suspects they believe have committed state or federal crimes and who cannot provide identification or other information that could help police identify them. It also authorizes police to detain people determined to be in the country illegally and take them to jail. Carolina Antonini, a local immigration attorney who teaches at Georgia State University, stressed immigrants have the right to remain silent during encounters with police and should always carry documents proving their identity, such as a passport. “I advise clients to not volunteer information but certainly not to lie to the police,” she said. Joseph Rosen, an immigration attorney who teaches at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, agreed. “If asked about your legal status, just say, ‘I don’t know,’ ” he said. “A lot of people don’t know. But you certainly can’t lie about it, or else they will get you for misrepresentation.”" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dec. 11, 2012.