The Dallas Morning News has reported that in an attempt to deal with the massive backlog in the immigration courts in Texas the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has assigned five full time attorneys to review thousands of pending immigration court cases. This June, 23,000 of the 248,000 cases pending in immigration courts across the […]
Obama Administration Pulls a "Bait and Switch" with Fingerprint Sharing Program
The Associated Press has reported that approximately 47,000 people have been deported after the Obama administration reviewed 3 million sets of fingerprints taken from bookings at local jails. This is being done under a fingerprint-sharing program known as Secure Communities. ICE spokesman Richard Rocca explains that the program has been designed to get rid of […]
President Obama has been too busy deporting immigrants to address immigration reform
The first eighteen months of the Obama Presidency have come and gone, and the President has yet to address immigration reform. That being said, the President has assured us that he WILL address immigration reform. Not now, but soon. So we should all just be patient. Our time will come. Not now, but soon. What […]
With no reform in sight Deportations increase under President Obama
When President Obama was campaigning he made a ton of promises about what he intended to do to reform our immigration laws in his first year in office. His exact words: "I think it is time for a President who won’t walk away from something as important as comprehensive reform just because it becomes politically […]
Somali detained in Montreal no-fly list case released from immigration custody
My client, Abdirahman Ali Gaal, has been released from immigration custody and has been reunited with his family in Seattle, Washington. Mr. Gaal is a citizen of Somalia, and is a lawful permanent resident of the United States. This past spring Mr. Gaal spent approximately two months abroad on vacation. When attempting to return home […]
Up next in Arizona: Deport United States Citizen Children ‎
It appears as though the humanitarian branch of the Arizona Republican Party has found their next target for deportation: United States citizen children. It has been reported that Arizona Republicans intend to introduce legislation this fall that will deny birth certificates to children born in the United States with parents who are not United States […]