Brent Renison, June 23, 2016 - "Today the Supreme Court upheld the denial of the DAPA program in a split, 4 to 4 tie decision, issuing only a one sentence ruling, "The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court." That means that DAPA (and...
NILC - " This morning the Supreme Court announced that it had voted 4-4 in United States v. Texas . As a result, DAPA and the expansion of DACA , programs that President Obama announced in 2014, remain blocked by the lower court’s order. This means people...
AILA Doc. No. 16062336, June 23, 2016 : "While today's split decision sets no Supreme Court precedent, what it does mean is that these important, commonsense policies will remain blocked for now. The fact remains, DAPA and DACA+ are initiatives...
Cyrus D. Mehta, Nov. 15, 2015 - "Although the Fifth Circuit in Texas v. USA ruled against the Administration on November 9, 2015 by upholding the preliminary injunction against implementation of President Obama’s program to grant deferred action to certain...
Allissa Wickham, Law360, July 10, 2015 - "A Fifth Circuit panel seemed open Friday to a bid by three immigrant mothers to intervene in the high-profile suit over the president’s executive actions, in an oral argument session that highlighted the federal government...
"In legal terms, Judge Smith’s strikingly casual reasoning about “lawful presence” lacks precision and ultimately makes very little sense." - Anil Kalhan, June 3, 2015 . - Prof. Anil Kalhan
"Several members of this committee have publicly expressed concerns about the views of Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch as to the legality of President Obama’s recently- announced executive actions on immigration. I have studied these issues carefully...
As of Jan. 30, 2015, we still have no ruling by Judge Hanen on the motion for preliminary injunction in Texas v. USA , No. 1:14-cv-00254, S.D. TX, Brownsville Div. Notable recent docket entries, however, include the DEFENDANTS’ SUR-REPLY IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS...
Teleconference Invitation Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) Monday, Jan. 26, 2015, 2 p.m. (Eastern) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites you to participate in a listening session on Monday...
"DACA Updates – Administrative Relief, DACA Renewal Processing and More Thu, Dec 18, 2014 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CST This webinar is presented by Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), National Immigration Law Center (NILC), and The National Immigration...
"In the long term, the series of memos comprising the administration’s “Executive Action” may finally reduce the historic backlogs facing our nation’s immigration courts. In the short term, however, the memos could exponentially worsen the extensive (and overlooked...