Politicizing Established Principles of Prosecutorial Discretion Without Offering Real Solutions
Judge Andrew Hanen’s ruling this week issuing a temporary injunction to the expanded DACA and new DAPA programs announced as part of the President’s concrete steps to alleviate our current dysfunctional immigration system is nothing more than a political kneejerk...
Mexican Consulates Will Issue Birth Certificates…Starting Today!
A longtime struggle for many Mexican citizens living in the United States is the inability to access their birth records. Some may have been born in a state where they no longer have contacts and they struggle to acquire their birth certificate. In practice, this...
A Victory for the Arizona DACAmented
In Arizona, a high school student that has been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) can create an award-winning underwater robot from Home Depot parts, but can’t legally drive to school (more about that below). Thanks to a mean-spirited August 15,...
The Good, the Not-so-Bad and the Ugly: USCIS Announces DACA Renewal Procedures
Today, USCIS published long-awaited guidance for renewals under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA program, including a new Form I-821D for both initial and renewal applications. The guidelines should mean a streamlined process for most renewals, but...
Shifting Pressure, Shifting Strategies – Whose Move Will Be Checkmate?
Chess is a two-player strategy game. Each player begins with 16 pieces: A king, a queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. Pieces are used to attack and capture, with the objective to 'checkmate' the opponent's king by inescapably trapping him....
Battling Preconceived Notions
We all have preconceived notions. We all assume things about people and their ideas and actions. I’m not a child development specialist (well, any more than any dad is), but I think it starts back in childhood, maybe because kids like it when things can be easily...
The Dream Today
On this fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington to demand justice and equality, the United States has once again had the chance to rise to the “better angels of its nature” by enacting just immigration reform. A broad-based movement consisting of the...
House Vote to Defund DACA Requires Action Now
On June 6th, the House voted 224 to 201 to defund the infant Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ("DACA") program, announced by President Obama on June 15, 2012. On a mostly party-line vote, 220 House Republicans supported the amendment introduced by...
The Time Is Now: Five Reasons Why Congress Will Pass Immigration Reform
Things are different this time around. The passion is different, the energy is different and, most of all, America is different. As Congress gets ready to take on what is arguably the most contentious issue in the country, there is no mistaking it: America is ready...
A Bird in Hand—CIR and Deferred Action
With all the buzz about immigration reform, why apply for deferred action now? For those who were waiting to see how the elections turned out or whether the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or “DACA” program was “real” and not just a...
