The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on April 27, 2021, that immigration arrests at courthouses will be more limited, which is another reversal of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policy. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that such arrests deterred people from attending court hearings and cooperating with law enforcement officials. According to the new policy...Read More

Millions of immigrants are currently living in the United States without documentation. Many of these people, however, arrived with their parents when they were children, and the U.S. is the only home they know. In 2012, President Obama responded to this dilemma by creating a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Through DACA,...Read More

As we discussed in our blog about J-1 visas, foreign physicians who come to the United States under an Exchange Visitor program have to meet a two-year home residence requirement. Immigrant physicians who want to eventually obtain permanent resident status in the U.S have to first spend at least two years working in the medical...Read More

When U.S. Border Patrol began separating families at the southern border, reunification became the number one priority for countless immigrant advocacy groups, pro-immigration legislators, and, of course, the affected families. The Trump administration officially ended the policy that allowed these separations to occur, but the separations have continued through 2020. For those who have achieved...Read More

Since his initial campaign, President Trump has promised a border wall along the southern border of the United States to prevent illegal immigration. But acquiring the billions of dollars he wants for the project has proven to be quite a challenge, as lower courts and Congress have denied his requests on multiple occasions. The battle...Read More

Our legal team at Guerra Sáenz, PL is pleased to announce that attorney Luis Guerra has been awarded his recertification in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Board of Legal Specialization & Education (BLSE)! As a result of attorney Guerra’s continued pursuit of excellence and professionalism, the BLSE and the Supreme Court of Florida both...Read More

As President Trump plans to shift billions of dollars from the nation’s defense budget to his long promised border wall, his Republican colleagues have been left in a difficult position. According to Politico the money being shifted to the border wall will come from funds set aside for military construction projects and the war on...Read More

Approximately 15% of workers in the agriculture industry are immigrants without legal status. As a result, the recent crackdown on illegal immigration under the Trump administration has created a “labor crisis” within American agriculture. In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, over 300 agriculture groups requested federal assistance in...Read More

Several injunctions that were blocking the Trump administration from implementing its new public charge rule have been lifted by a federal appeals court. However, the three judges on the panel were divided in their decisions after voting 2-1 to stay preliminary injunctions issued by federal judges in Oakland, CA, and Spokane, WA. Two of the...Read More

In 2016, Trump promised to build a wall on the U.S. southern border. After failing to convince Congress to provide funding for this project, he officially declared the border a national emergency in February. When Congress rejected this declaration, Trump issued his first veto, subsequently diverting $3.6 billion from over 100 military projects around the...Read More