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The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from two Republican state attorneys general to the Biden administration's immigration guidelines that prioritize which noncitizens to deport. The court ruled 8-1 that the states, Texas and Louisiana, did not have the "standing,"...

On June 30, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration has the authority to end MPP (the Migrant Protection Protocols), commonly called the "Remain in Mexico" policy, that forces asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico during their immigration...

The United States Supreme Court handed down decisions on two deportation cases the week of June 13 and declined to hear a 3rd case involving the public charge policy for green card applicants. SCOTUS Rules Against Detained Immigrants Facing Deportation...

There are serious immigration consequences if a non-citizen is convicted or accused of a crime. Most criminal defense attorneys do not know the immigration implications of a criminal conviction. In 2010, the United States Supreme Court ruled on Padilla v....

The Biden administration officially reinstated the controversial Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, commonly known as Remain in Mexico. Asylum-seekers will now have to return to Mexico and wait for their immigration case to be heard. MPP was first implemented under...

The United States Supreme Court ordered on August 24 that President Joe Biden's administration must reinstate a Trump-era immigration policy that requires migrants entering the U.S. at the southern border to wait in Mexico while U.S. officials process their asylum claims. Biden...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found in 2019 that border officers must limit their cellphone and laptop search of international travelers for one thing: digital contraband — defined largely by the courts as child pornography, according to the...

On July 20 the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that the courts can't review USCIS decisions. An Indian citizen whose immigrant work visa I-140 was initially approved was later revoked by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,...

The United States Supreme Court ruled that undocumented immigrants who were deported but returned to the U.S. are not entitled to a bond hearing. On June 3o, the Court ruled that the government can indefinitely detain immigrants who had been...

Al rededor de 411,000 inmigrantes contaban con estatus TPS en 2020. El Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS), es un programa migratorio que permite a algunos inmigrantes residir en los Estados Unidos durante una crisis en su país. La mayoría de...