President Obama has professed his support for progressive immigration policy throughout both of his campaigns, and activists are currently applying maximum pressure in hopes that he'll make good on those promises. As the comprehensive immigration reform bill languishes in the House, activists are...
Arizona's latest stunt in a nearly-constant stream of attacks on immigrants is to ban the issuance of driver's licenses to youths who have qualified for deferred action. Because of the newly expanded ban, announced last week, Arizona is one of only two states to deny DACA youths driver's licenses...
Amongst immigration activists and legal scholars, there has been much recent criticism of the way in which detained parents are deprived of their rights to participate in parenting and family court proceedings while being detained. Due to insufficient communication, it has become common for detai...
The Eighth Circuit recently issued a case based on the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in favor of five undocumented workers who were denied backpay and overtime wages by their employer. The case, Elmer Lucas et. Al. v. Jerusalem Café, LLC et. al., marks an important step in the progress towards...
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has just issued a recent decision that will likely have an impact on the future adjudication of derivative citizenship suits. In the past, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) has held that minors would only be eligible for derivative citizenship if they bec...
A group of young immigration reform activists known as the DREAM Nine have been released from Eloy Detention Center after being held there for about two weeks. The group voluntarily crossed the border from Mexico to the U.S. on July 22 and openly declared their undocumented status to officials a...
Since the Obama administration pushed through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in June of last year, recent statistics reveal that only about half of the eligible candidates in Arizona have applied thus far. The Immigration Policy Center has estimated that around 34,836 people in Arizona wo...
As much national attention is being paid to S.744, the comprehensive immigration reform bill being debated in the Senate, New York City immigration lawyer Alan Lee says we should not forget about the I 601A provisional waiver as a means of helping immigrants remain in the United States. In compar...
Last week, a U.S. District Court judge, Dolly M. Magee, made a historic ruling giving legal aid to mentally ill or mentally incompetent immigration detainees. This is the first time that there has been a right to counsel for any class of immigration detainees, so the step is quite symbolic and ho...
USCIS has issued a press release indicating that it has reached the cap of 65,000 for H-1B visas for the 2014 fiscal year. In fact, there were about 124,000 applications filed within only one week of the filing period. In addition, USCIS states that it has received about 20,000 applications from ...
Young applicants seeking DACA relief may be surprised to find out that other forms of relief may be available to them. According to a story in the New York Times, immigration lawyers are often able to identify alternate forms of relief in addition to DACA. DACA stands for Deferred Action for Chi...
A new study was released last week by the University of Arizona Center for Latin American Studies titled, "In the Shadow of the Wall: Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement and Security." The interdisciplinary study, funded by the Ford Foundation, set out to explore and critique the prevailin...
Solitary confinement has become a routine practice in immigration detention centers, according to a story published in the New York Times this week. The story was based on a study encompassing 50 of the largest detention facilities in the country, including several in Arizona. Its findings revea...
Green Evans-Schroeder is focused on the aggressive defense of immigrants.
