Due to the Trump Administration’s radical border policies, over 3,000 children have been separated from their immigrant parents and placed into the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Public outrage across the country has prompted the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California to order that all immigrant children...Read More

Earlier this month, U.S. immigration agents raided dozens of 7-Eleven stores across the country, arresting 21 people in what officials describe as the largest operation against an employer under the Trump presidency. Agents targeted 98 convenience stores across 17 states, from Los Angeles to New York City, opening employment audits and interview workers in an...Read More

After the Trump Administration announced the cancellation of the DACA program, many young people have wondered what their future holds. The DACA program, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, has permitted certain immigrant children who came to the United States when they were young to remain in the country. This program was created under the...Read More

When you hire a new employee there are plenty of tasks that find their way onto your to-do list: discuss benefits, prepare desk space, gather training materials, and provide them with an I-9 Form. While the paperwork may seem daunting, the I-9 form is required by federal law to comply with the Immigration Reform and...Read More

Ever since the results of the recent presidential election, thousands of immigrants across the United States have been living in fear. The new president’s campaign for office was built on a promise of mass deportations, using some kind of unspecified deportation force, and a wall stretched along the southern border which Mexico would somehow be...Read More

It has been almost two weeks since Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States, and in that short time he has already issued more than a dozen executive orders, making sweeping changes to everything from federal employment to oil pipelines to immigration. On this blog, we take a look at the immigration...Read More

El 27 de diciembre del 2016, la Oficina Administrativa de Apelaciones (AAO) del Servicio de Inmigración y Ciudadanía de EE.UU. (USCIS) emitió una decisión importantísima, Matter of Dhanasar, 26 I&N Dic. 884 (AAO 2016), la cual modifica el estándar de Exoneración por Interés Nacional (NIW) que afecta a ciertas peticiones de residencia permanente en los...Read More

In 1995, the Cuban Adjustment Act was revised after President Clinton’s negotiations with the Cuban government. In its previous interpretation, any people who were intercepted in U.S. waters off the coast of Florida would be allowed to remain in the U.S. After this negotiation, people intercepted on the water would be sent home, but those...Read More