Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Haitian community in the US, and the to the victims of the terrible earthquake in Haiti. While US Immigration authorities are still working to respond, I’m proud to say that the American Immigration Lawyers Association has called on DHS Secretary Napolitano to designate Haiti for Temporary Protected […]

Aren’t ICE agents just doing their job?
Aren’t the police here to help us?
Isn’t law enforcement justified in the actions it takes, because it goes after  “bad guys?”
Well, sometimes.
And sometimes ICE locks up US Citizens in its raids.
And sometimes the police brutalize the innocent.
And sometimes a culture of “us against them”  takes over law enforcement, and […]

Immigration is in the news again, with this New York Times article about an adjudications officer who sexually exploited an applicant for a green card. Fortunately, she had recorded the encounter and went to the press; otherwise, it would have been a simple matter for the agency to deny wrongdoing or perhaps even retaliate against […]

Now, it seems that ICE is beginning a campaign of harrassment and intimidation against immigration attorneys! This goes hand in hand with increases in prosecutions for harboring and transportation of unlawfully present immigrants…