Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration

Learn more about what the executive order means, who it will affect, and what is being done to challenge it.

‘Hardware Malfunction’ Slows Down Immigration Courts

A technology breakdown that struck immigration courts a month ago still…

Prosecutorial Discretion on the Rise in Immigration Courts

By Cindy Chang, LA Times  January 15, 2014, 3:27 p.m. Immigrants facing deportation are increasingly likely to have their cases dismissed because of mitigating factors such as having U.S. citizen children, according to an analysis by researchers at Syracuse University. In some courts, at least 20% of case closures involved prosecutorial discretion. Of the roughly 35,000 […]

PRIVACY ALERT! – The government can search your electronic devices at the border and ports of entry!

New York Times Reports District Judge Upholds Government’s Right to Search Electronics at Border Pascal Abidor sued the government after American border agents handcuffed him, placed him in a cell and questioned him for several hours, then seized and kept his laptop for 11 days. In his opinion, Judge Edward R. Korman of the Federal […]

Budget deal may open doors to immigration reform in January

As reported in USA Today: “Republican leaders, led by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, have deemed immigration legislation a priority in the new year. The Senate is expected to pass Tuesday a bipartisan budget deal for the next two years that would clear the legislative calendar and eliminate the threat of a government shutdown in […]