Blog | Benach Collopy LLP

July 18, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2929" align="alignleft" width="332"] Lily Hamilton, Sophie Macklem-Johnson and Christine Rains outside the York County Jail in York, PA.[/caption] It's intern week at Benach Collopy! During this week, we spotlight the work that our interns...

What is going on with DACA?

July 13, 2017

The future of President Obama's program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the subject of intense speculation and even more significant anxiety. Worry over the fate of the program increased significantly this week after...

Benach Collopy Attorneys at AILA Annual Conference: Beignets, awards, asylum and humidity

July 3, 2017

Last week, Benach Collopy attorneys Ava Benach, Dree Collopy and Adi Nuñez traveled to New Orleans to attend the 2017 Annual Conference of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). As we approached New Orleans, we...

An ICE agent visited a restaurant. About 30 employees quit the next day, its owner says.

June 30, 2017

AILA Presents Ava Benach with the 2017 Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award

June 19, 2017

Remembering Elias Eljuri: A Client and a Friend

May 31, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2910" align="alignleft" width="258"] Elias E. Eljuri[/caption] There are moments in life when the true nature of something is revealed in the fog. Sometimes, an object will only reveal itself slowly as the fog lifts. ...

Whitman Walker Health Presents Ava Benach with Fenner Award for Public Service

May 24, 2017

Earlier this month, Ava Benach received the Fenner Award for Public Service from Whitman Walker Health Legal Services. She got it for doing what she does best-- winning cases! The award recognizes the unique relationship...

Client of the Month May 2017- Meher D’Mello

May 18, 2017

[caption id="attachment_2893" align="aligncenter" width="589"] Ava & Meher, NYC 4/13/17[/caption] I have been waiting to write this one for decades. Meher is one of my favorite people and on May 18, 2017, she will take the...

Immigration arrests soar under Trump; sharpest spike seen for noncriminals

May 17, 2017

April 2017 Clients of the Month- Angela and Omar Totti Ramirez

April 27, 2017

Angela and Omar Totti Ramirez are our clients of the month for April 2017. Omar, a Bolivian citizen, recently received his residence based upon his marriage to Angela, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Bolivia....

Trump’s Quiet Reversal on Deporting Young Undocumented Immigrants

April 27, 2017

Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Overwhelming a Strained System

April 21, 2017

Benach Collopy Asylum Summer Fellowship 2017

March 27, 2017

The Benach Collopy Asylum Summer Fellowship 2017 I have been so lucky to get to know so many brave, hard-working, family-oriented, and generous people from all over the globe. They all shared one thing in...

Walls, DACA and Raids: What has happened in immigration since Trump’s inauguration?

March 16, 2017

Back in November, we made some predictions about what might occur in a Trump presidency as it relates to immigration. Generally, we were very pessimistic and presumed that almost all areas of immigration would become...

Client of the Month March 2017: Torng Eang

March 13, 2017

Our Client of the Month for March 2017 is Torng Eang, a 17-year-old boy from Cambodia who has been separated from his mother for almost his entire life. When Torng was two years old, his...