In this blog post, Media Advocacy Committee Member Katie Sarreshteh highlights AILA’s August Campaign and urges members to help AILA’s efforts “to realign USCIS with its congressional mandate and ensure judicial independence in our immigration courts.”
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In this blog post, AILA Media Advocacy Committee member Katie Sarreshteh shares the anatomy and impact of a government shutdown from the immigration law practitioner’s perspective.
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On November 20, 2017, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, issued a nationwide permanent injunction blocking the federal government’s attempt to strip so-called “sanctuary cities” of federal funding. Judge William Orrick ruled the executive order unconstitutional, in violation of the Fifth and 10th Amendments. Explaining the severe due process violations, Judge Orrick stated, “the Executive Order’s vague language does not make clear what conduct it proscribes or give jurisdictions a reasonable opportunity to avoid its penalties.” Judge Orrick also highlighted President Trump’s motives for crafting this executive order stating, “The President has called it ‘a weapon’ to use against jurisdictions that disagree with his preferred policies of immigration enforcement.”
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Today, President Trump will hold a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, where it is rumored he may pardon...
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Today marks the five year anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that has provided vital relief to hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who came to the United States as children. I wish we could jubilantly celebrate and toast to this half-decade milestone. Instead, we are fighting to keep the program alive and protect Dreamers from shortsighted proposals that would abruptly terminate the program.
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