By Kerry Bretz | Published October 25, 2016 | Posted in Deportation & Removal, Immigration Law News | Tagged Tags: daca, deferred action, work authorization, work visa | Leave a comment
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Texas Immigration Block Being Challenged Across the Country
Mexican-born José Lopez, now living in Chicago, is challenging a recent federal court decision, which he argues was unfairly applied to his case. After the decision in Texas v. United States, the United States Citizen & Immigration Services (USCIS) revoked Lopez’s three-year work permit granted under the expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Read More
Read MoreObama Asks Supreme Court to Rehear DAPA Case
President Barack Obama recently requested that the Supreme Court rehear the case of Texas v. United States, in which the eight justices were split on deciding whether DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) should be implemented. This was reported by UPI. When the executive order was announced in 2014, twenty-five states — led by Read More
Read MoreUndocumented Indian and Pakistani Immigrants Also Affected by Supreme Court’s Decision of DAPA
After it was announced on June 23 that the Supreme Court was split 4-4 on President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration — known as DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) — the media focused its attention on the undocumented Latino immigrants who feared being deported and separated from their families here legally in Read More
Read MoreWhat Does Prosecutorial Discretion Mean in Connection with U.S. Immigration Law?
President Obama’s recent executive action has sparked debate about the role of prosecutorial discretion in the exercise of immigration policy. Supporters of the president’s action hail it as a pragmatic approach to an overwhelming problem that Congress has failed to solve, while critics claim that Mr. Obama has violated two important Constitutional principles: the separation Read More
Read MoreOPTIONS TO CONSIDER WHILE WAITING FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA TO ACT ON IMMIGRATION
Much to the disappointment of immigrants and immigration reform activists, President Obama recently announced a delay in the use of executive action to solve the country’s immigration issues. On June 30, he promised that he would use executive action before the end of the summer. However, during the weekend of September 5-7, he announced that Read More
Read MoreUpdate on President Obama’s Review of Deportation Policies
On March 13, President Obama directed the Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh C. Johnson, to conduct a review of deportation policies and practices. Its purpose was to come up with “more humane” enforcement efforts and slow down the administration’s record pace of deportations. This would make life less stressful and anxiety-ridden for millions of immigrants Read More
Read MoreStay of Removal and Deferred Action
Previously, I have offered some further information on How to Stop Deportation and Removal as well as Risk Factors for Deportation. Today we continue the conversation on stays of removal and deferred action. If a person has been ordered deported or removed from the United States, it may be possible to get the execution of Read More
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