A Federal Appeals Court in Boston ruled that the mandatory detention provision in immigration law is being misapplied. Immigration Judges have been interpreting the mandatory detention law as applicable anytime a person “was released” from custody after October 8, 1998. This means that a person released from custody in 1999 and subsequently detained by immigration...Continue Reading
The majority of the 66,000 undocumented children who have crossed the southwest border and surrendered do not have attorneys. Immigration advocates throughout the United States are desperately seeking immigration attorneys to help represent these children, some as young as 6 years old. The Immigration Courts around the nation are now packed with these children and...Continue Reading