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Latest News in Immigration
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December 14, 2018
DNA Test Saves Mexican Man's Removal Case At 6th Circ.
The Sixth Circuit on Friday found that the Board of Immigration Appeals had wrongly refused to reopen a Mexican national’s removal proceedings after evidence came out that he had another U.S.-citizen child, finding that the board had to accept the man’s earlier claims of difficulty in obtaining a paternity test.
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December 14, 2018
Girl's Death In Border Patrol Custody Sparks DHS OIG Inquiry
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General announced Friday that it would launch an investigation into a 7-year-old girl's recent death due to dehydration and exhaustion while in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody.
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December 14, 2018
Trump Asylum Rule Should Be Blocked, Sens. Tell Court
A D.C. federal court should enter an order temporarily barring the federal government from implementing President Donald Trump’s bid to strip asylum eligibility from migrants who cross the southern border outside a designated port of entry, seven Democratic U.S. senators said Thursday.
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December 14, 2018
9th Circ. Upholds BIA Snub Of Pakistani's Bad Counsel Claim
The Ninth Circuit determined Thursday that it does not have the authority to review whether the Board of Immigration Appeals erred in declining to certify a Pakistani man's claim that an attorney's alleged ineffective assistance hindered his immigration case, holding that the decision is squarely within the agency's discretion.
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December 14, 2018
4 Biggest Illinois Decisions Of 2018
The Illinois Supreme Court made it easier to pursue judgments against distributors in product liability suits, State Farm agreed to pay $250 million to end accusations it bought an Illinois Supreme Court judge, and the Seventh Circuit upheld Chicago's win of a nationwide injunction blocking an anti-sanctuary cities policy. Here, Law360 highlights some of the biggest Illinois decisions in 2018.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- U.S. Department of Justice, Board of Immigration Appeals
- U.S. Department of Labor, Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals
- U.S. Department of State
- State immigration regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
- Immigration and Nationality Act
- Immigration Reform and Control Act
- Civil Rights Act
- Asylum and refugee regulations
- Executive actions on immigration
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Employment-related immigration rules
- State immigration legislation and regulation
- Immigration lobbying
- ENFORCEMENT
- Immigration probes and enforcement actions
- Detainment and deportation orders
- Human trafficking investigations
- LITIGATION
- Challenges to immigration policy and enforcement actions
- National origin and citizenship discrimination complaints
- Worker visa disputes
- Citizenship litigation
- Civil rights and detainment suits
- Employment suits involving immigrant workers, including wage-and-hour, discrimination and harassment, and worker safety actions
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of immigration practices
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- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals