Lisa M Koenig

June 14, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Immigration Law columnist Lisa M. Koenig writes: Given the renewed enforcement focus by both ICE and DOJ on immigration compliance, the nearly doubled civil fines available to both agencies, and the potential criminal liability for employment verification misconduct, employers are well advised to establish or strengthen their immigration compliance programs, and to ensure that regular I-9 audits are a feature of such programs.

By Lisa M. Koenig

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June 24, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Lisa M. Koenig, a partner of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy who serves onthe Sanctuary for Families' Legal Advisory Council, and Archana Pyati, the asylum attorney at Sanctuary for Families, write that for more than a decade, advocates have argued that immigrant women who fear domestic violence in their countries of nationality should receive asylum, a humanitarian form of immigration relief, so that they can remain safely in the United States. Though the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice agree that domestic violence can amount to persecution, they say, there is disagreement about how to frame these cases within the narrow parameters of asylum law.

By Lisa M. Koenig and Archana Pyati

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