It’s easy to get a green card when marriage to a United States citizen is involved, but there is substantial official concern about this aspect of the green card process. Because of this, the penalties for a fake “green card…
Category: Immigration Crimes
2021
Category: Immigration Crimes
Immigration is a hot-button issue, regardless of the political aisle one favor. It’s made more complicated by competing priorities as one presidential administration passes to the next.
With new leadership in the White House, the U.S. Immigration and Customs…
2020
Category: Immigration Crimes
An expired visa causes problems during the best of times. In the current national crisis, those problems can produce even more stress. An expired work visa in during this current immigration ban can completely uproot your life.
The ban…
2020
Category: DACA | Immigration Crimes
The fate of those currently under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) is still uncertain. By its very nature, the DACA program was only a band aid approach to the issue of hundreds of thousands of children brought to…
2020
Category: Immigration Crimes
COVID-19 is making things uncertain for most Americans. But for immigrants ensnared in the U.S. Justice System, the looming uncertainty can feel overwhelming. An already-shaky immigration court system has not been immune to the COVID-19 upheaval either.
If you’re…
2020
Category: Immigration Crimes
A recent Customs and Border Protection memo confirmed that bus carriers such as Greyhound are not legally required to allow Border Patrol agents on board to check for immigrants entering the country illegally.
The company had previously cooperated with…
2020
Category: Immigration Crimes
Illegal Immigration was a significant topic in the last two election cycles and continues to be the focus of media stories throughout the country. The Trump Administration has maintained a persistent, and sometimes unlawful, campaign to prevent illegal immigration as…
2019
Category: Immigration Crimes
When Roland Gramajo invited Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to a town-hall meeting about federal immigration raids, he hoped to assuage the community’s fears surrounding ICE.
“He just wanted to get the word across to the Latino community…
2019
Category: Immigration Crimes
In a May 24, 2019 decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals presented the face of a typical Central American asylum seeker through the case of Nelson Esimar Martinez Manzanares.
Manzanares entered the United States near McAllen, Texas in…
2019
Category: Immigration Crimes
Almost a year ago President Donald Trump tweeted the view that undocumented immigrants should be immediately returned “from where they came” – no judges, no court cases.
That narrow view parallels his executive ordered zero-tolerance policy on immigration which…