an Gooding, Newsweek, Sept. 30, 2024 "Experts and lawmakers are skeptical of his ability to do such a thing, just as they have been of the mass deportation promise laid out in the GOP's 2024...
Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, Sept. 29, 2024 "At the 2013 event, the brothers also touched on a topic they’ve discussed less frequently in public: their immigration status during the company’s...
Aaron Martinez, El Paso Times, Sept. 26, 2024 " Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center is the second El Paso immigration nonprofit to sue Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , accusing him of violating...
CILP, Sept. 2024 You’ve heard of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but what about immigration nerds in cars getting coffee?? As we’ve carpooled with our colleagues to the UCLA Law School...
Matt Dougherty, Ithaca.com, Sept. 24, 2024 "Cornell University has become the first university to suspend a student for pro-Palestinian organizing this semester, putting them at risk of deportation...
Shilpa Phadnis, TNN, Mar. 16, 2023
"Amid mass layoffs in the US, the presidential advisory panel has recommended extending the grace period for laid-off H1B workers from 60 to 180 days that could come as a reprieve for many affected employees. In the past six months, many laid-off H-1B employees have taken to social media to highlight their plight of finding another job within the 60-day grace period. Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of Immigration Law Practice, Cornell Law School, said it’s the first step in a long process. “First, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services is not required to follow that recommendation. Moreover, even if the USCIS were to extend the grace period, it might have to go through the normal rulemaking process to do that. That could take months. Also, if the USCIS extends the grace period, expect a lawsuit by US workers challenging the change as beyond the immigration agency’s authority. Finally, a grace period extension wouldn’t apply retroactively to help H-1B workers already laid off. In sum, laid-off H-1B workers should not get their hopes up yet.” Cyrus D Mehta, managing partner of New York-based law firm Cyrus D Mehta & Partners, called the recommendation “good news” and said the extended period would not come into effect immediately. “The actual regulation at 8 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) needs to be amended, which is a process, since the administration must allow for notice and comment to the public before changing a rule.”