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Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez and Roxsana Hernandez were killed by U.S. immigration authorities last month

June 6, 2018

On May 4, 1970, U.S. National Guardsmen shot and killed four people protesting the Vietnam War. The massacre, known as the Kent State shootings, topped a tumultuous decade that spurred a lot of violence against...

Clients of the Month, May 2018: Marcelle de Lima and Luciano da Silva

May 3, 2018

[caption id="attachment_3148" align="aligncenter" width="495"] The de Lima/ da Silva family[/caption] Our May 2018 clients of the month are Marcelle de Lima and Luciano da Silva. Marcelle and Luciano are from Brazil and they came to...

What is the Caravan and what should U.S. immigration authorities do with it?

April 30, 2018

We have heard a lot about the "Caravan" of immigrants making its way north through Mexico from the Northern Triangle- El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala- of Central America. Once numbering over 1200 people, the remaining...

DACA is Back, Almost!

April 25, 2018

[caption id="attachment_3143" align="aligncenter" width="250"] Judge John D. Bates is a George W. Bush appointee on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.[/caption] DACA lives! Maybe? Yesterday, U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled that...

Want Asylum in America? Get Ready for Hell.

April 5, 2018

April 2018 Clients of Month Aldemar Segundo and Susan Matos

April 2, 2018

We are thrilled with our April 2018 Clients of the Month, Aldemar Segundo and Susan Matos Segundo. Aldemar became a permanent resident in March 2018 and can live securely with his U.S. citizen wife, Susan,...

Celebrating asylum in a country where it’s hard to come by

March 12, 2018

[caption id="attachment_3105" align="alignright" width="200"] Attorney Sarah Pitney[/caption] It can be so hard to stay positive as an immigration attorney in times like these. Every day, we face new assaults from the president, the attorney general,...

Client of the Month- March 2018- Yovanny Soto

March 2, 2018

For March 2018, we want to highlight our clients, Yovanny Soto and Heidi Andrade, and their really cute kids. On February 7, 2018, Yovanny was admitted to the U.S. as a permanent resident after...

She was almost deported as a teen. Now she helps frightened versions of herself.

February 15, 2018

Why didn’t he just become a citizen? An immigration lawyer deconstructs a recent deportation

January 18, 2018

This week, the internet was riveted by the story of the deportation of Jorge Garcia of Detroit, Michigan to Mexico. Garcia had entered the U.S. illegally as a child, lived in the U.S. for thirty...

The DACA Injunction

January 10, 2018

Last night, a U.S. District Court in California v DHS issued a nationwide injunction stopping the Trump administration from ending DACA as it relates to renewals. The court ordered DHS “to maintain the DACA program on...

Salvadorans face the loss of their American Dream.

January 9, 2018

Against “Illegal” Immigration But in Favor of “Legal” Immigration? We Knew You Were Lying All Along

January 7, 2018

Nearly every discussion I have with someone who is opposed to immigration eventually includes my opponent saying something like this: "I am not against immigration. I am against illegal immigration. I have no problem if...

Moving Uptown

December 20, 2017

What a year! 2017 will go down as one of the weirdest years we can remember. And for all the terrible news, we will remember this year as one of tremendous change and growth. On...

TPS Honduras se ha extendido

December 15, 2017

El TPS para los ciudadanos de Honduras se ha extendido por 6 meses. El Departamento de Seguridad a la Patria/ Department of Homeland Security, anunció hoy que ha extendido el Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS)...