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End of DACA- What are the new rules?

This is the first of several articles detailing the changes to the DACA program announced on Tuesday September 5, 2017. This is meant to give quick and dirty information,

What is going on with DACA?

The future of President Obama’s program,Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the subject of intense speculation and even more significant anxiety. Worry over the fate of the program increased

An ICE agent visited a restaurant. About 30 employees quit the next day, its owner says.

Obama’s ICE often used immigration audits to disrupt and humiliate large restaurants and inspire compliance, Ava Benach said — such as an audit of Clyde’s of Gallery Place in 2013,

Remembering Elias Eljuri: A Client and a Friend

There are moments in life when the true nature of something is revealed in the fog. Sometimes, an object will only reveal itself slowly as the fog lifts. Other times

Immigration arrests soar under Trump; sharpest spike seen for noncriminals

Ava Benach, a D.C. immigration lawyer, said ICE agents are “empowered, emboldened and . . . eager to enforce the law aggressively.”

Trump’s Quiet Reversal on Deporting Young Undocumented Immigrants

Deportation relief is not equivalent to legal status, notes Dree Collopy, an immigration lawyer in Washington, D.C. But enforcement action against them was largely avoided under the Obama administration.

Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Overwhelming a Strained System

“I think it has a particular impact on asylum-seekers, because the sense of being in limbo really seems to prolong their trauma and their sense of statelessness that they have,”

Walls, DACA and Raids: What has happened in immigration since Trump’s inauguration?

Back in November, we made some predictions about what might occur in a Trump presidency as it relates to immigration. Generally, we were very pessimistic and presumed that almost all

Key Moves When Immigration Clients Are Caught In Raids

Transgender Attorneys Blaze Trail To Equality

‘America first’ divides Trump, Silicon Valley

Google, Facebook Show Tech Dismay on Trump Immigration Order

Google recalls staff to US after Donald Trump immigration order

“No one is really sure whether a green card holder from these seven countries can return to the US now. It’s fairly clear that an H-1B visa holder can’t,” Benach

Google calls staffers back to US after Trump order on immigration, report says

“We are advising our clients from those seven countries who have green cards or any type of H-1B visa not to travel outside the U.S.” Ava Benach, a partner at

Remember the St. Louis

Today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am thinking about the M.S. St. Louis. In 1939, while war waged in Europe, the M.S. St. Louis, a transatlantic ship carrying Jewish refugees

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