Immigration Blog

On May 17, 2018, the attorney general issued a decision in Matter of Castro–Tum, a case that he had referred to himself on certification, in which he ended the general practice of administrative closure of removal cases.

Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) is in a tough re-election fight. He won by three points in 2016 in a district Hillary carried by the same margin. His district, centered on Modesto, is about 40 percent Hispanic.

This represents a change of attitude from the policies of past administrations, which went so far as to circumscribe Border Patrol efforts to confront illegal aliens and contraband being trafficked through these wilderness park areas.

DHS did the right thing in denying this project, but it was clearly wrong, at least in my eyes, for not telling the whole story about its decision. Had it done so, it would have further blackened the reputation of the EB-5 program.

A recent decision from the Ninth Circuit partially, but succinctly, exemplifies how the immigration courts got a backlog of 700,000 cases.

This case raises significant questions having to do with how "John Doe" acquired his U.S. citizenship, especially if he acquired it through birth to foreign visitors or through naturalization.

Foreign students who drop out of status should be routinely expelled from this country by ICE. Yet the implication in a recent ICE press release about a Chinese student seemed to be that only foreign students who create special worries (he bought some "high-powered firearms") are singled out for removal.

On May 11, 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that licensed crab processors on Maryland's Eastern Shore will be short 200 workers this year, which the paper attributes to the recent allocation of nonimmigrant H-2B visas.

How can you write an otherwise accurate article about OPT without mentioning the massive subsidy paid to employers who hire former foreign students instead of Americans?

On May 9, 2018, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the Department of Justice (DOJ) component responsible for the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) released updated court statistics, and announced that it intended to implement a "transparency initiative".