By Irina Plumlee | March 25, 2020
Just as immigration lawyers around the country started getting the hang of the ever-changing immigration policies and politics, such as navigating…
By Marcia Coyle | March 19, 2020
Kirkland's Paul Clement has four petitions on the justices' Friday conference list. Meanwhile, the court, responding to the COVID-19 crisis, is extending deadlines to file new petitions.
By Angela Morris | March 18, 2020
Immigration attorneys want the hearings to go on, because they want to get their clients out of detention, where the risk of infection is high because of packed facilities and poor sanitary conditions. Simultaneously, attorneys are concerned for their own health when they have to attend packed immigration court hearings.
By Raychel Lean | March 18, 2020
"Ordinarily, criminals are not so lucky as to receive a reduced sentence for piling on more criminal activity," the Eleventh Circuit ruling said.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Louis Pechman and Laura Rodriguez | March 13, 2020
Although undocumented workers do not have legal work authorization, once they perform work for an employer, they are legally entitled to payment for that work.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Jordan J. Gonzalez | March 10, 2020
The H-1B visa is the most popular work visa program for professional-level employment in health care, technology, finance and other businesses. Nevertheless, for the last several years, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has adopted a very narrow definition of the term "specialty occupation."
By Ross Todd | March 4, 2020
The court, in an order released Wednesday, narrowed its ban on rule changes that would force non-Mexican asylum seekers arriving at the southern border to wait in Mexico while their asylum applications are pending.
By Greg Land | March 2, 2020
The lawsuit challenges detention center work programs denounced as coerced rather than voluntary as the operator maintains.
By Greg Land | March 2, 2020
The opinion did not address the merits of the claims but said a federal law barring forced labor can be applied to a privately run immigration detention center in south Georgia.
By Ross Todd | February 28, 2020
In two separate cases heard by the same three-judge panel, Ninth Circuit Judges Richard Paez and William Fletcher wrote that immigration cases present a compelling need for uniform relief.
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