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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...

EXECUTIVE REFORMS: Expanded DACA Eligibility

November 21, 2014

Another significant development coming out of the Presidential reforms announced yesterday is the expansion of DACA beyond its original parameters established in 2012. For descriptions of the original DACA requirements, please see here. The executive...

DACA Renewals Begin!

June 5, 2014

On June 5, 2014, the renewal process for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals starts for more than half-million DREAMERs who are already enrolled in the program. DREAMERs or DACA beneficiaries will continue to...

Cancellation Victory (well, sort of)

April 23, 2014

A couple of months ago, I got to enjoy my fifteen minutes of fame when my client became the poster child for problems caused for immigrants in immigration court by the government shutdown. I wrote...

Why has my case been transferred to California?

March 5, 2013

Recently, the Citizenship & Immigration Service sent out thousands of notices to people with applications pending notifying them that their application has been transferred to the California Service Center. Many DACA applicants with applications pending...

BR Eats Tacos and Thinks About Immigration

February 26, 2013

I had the best tacos I have ever had this weekend in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The whole Benach Collopy attorney gang headed out to the country to meet in the quiet of the mountains. And, of...

Immigration Reform Follies!

February 20, 2013

The past few days have revealed tremendous silliness in the immigration reform debate. It is a true pity given the serious stakes involved for everyone persecuted by the U.S.' brutal immigration laws. Just today, we...

The Whine of the ICE Bureaucrats

February 3, 2013

It has been a tough week for the ICE bureaucrats who have sought to undermine the political leadership of this country to pursue their own restrictivist and nativist agenda. Regular readers of this blog (my...

Immigration Reform 2013: The President’s Plan

February 1, 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lVIuW8vJ_E&w=560&h=315] What a week it has been. There has been more positive discussion of immigration reform in the last week than in the past decade and while none of it is perfect, it is...

Someone(s) at ICE Needs to Be Fired

January 11, 2013

Those of us on the East Coast woke up this morning to the news that Maria Arreola and her son Heriberto Arreola were arrested in their home Thursday night by Immigration & Customs enforcement in...

Howdy, Trey Gowdy!

December 21, 2012

Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was named the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, a committee that will presumably have a lead role in developing any new immigration law in the...

Why Dreamers Need Lawyers

August 8, 2012

Full disclosure, I’m a Dreamer. I’m also a full-time third-year law student. I work at an immigration law firm in Metropolitan Washington D.C. and I love my job. Like many immigrants in the United States,...

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