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A policy memo issued on April 3 that went into effect on April 25 provides guidance to ICE prosecutors to dismiss non-priority deportation cases. Under the direction of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

Since March 2020, U.S. southern border officials have used Title 42 policy to limit the spread of COVID-19 to quickly expel undocumented migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and send them back to Mexico or to their home countries. Title 42...

One of the worst experiences you can have is to be denied a green card when outside of the United States. Often this happens after a consular interview where the officer finds you inadmissible and ineligible - often for a...

Certain immigration violations make people ineligible for admission to the United States. In some cases, a person whose immigration application is denied can qualify for a pardon, called an inadmissibility waiver. The Immigration and Nationality Act explains the violations that...

With the escalating attack by Russia on Ukraine, the United States is looking at measures to protect Ukrainian immigrants already in the U.S. from removal/deportation and to welcome refugees to America. Already hundreds of thousands of people have fled Ukraine,...

Immigrant detention in Illinois has ended. The Illinois Way Forward Act ended ICE detention in Illinois. Before the new law went into effect, McHenry and Kankakee counties sued to try and prevent the loss of the contracts to hold immigrants...

The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a low-level marijuana crime conviction is not grounds for deportation for an immigrant legally living in the United States. A federal appeals court in San Francisco found that a Jamaican woman's conviction for...

Certain crimes committed by non-citizens are grounds for deportation. A foreign national can be forced to leave the United States and deported to their home country for certain offenses. The United States Code includes the following deportable offenses: • using...

A federal jury has found that immigrant detainees that are paid $1 a day are being exploited, and must be paid minimum wage. The Washington state detention center is not exempt from rules applied to federal prisons because it is...

A U.S. judge ruled on August 18, 2021, that United States felony deportation immigration laws are racist and unconstitutional. Federal criminal charges for re-entry into the United States after deportation is illegal, according to Nevada Judge Miranda Du of the...