By Colby Hamilton | February 8, 2018
According to public defenders, the 27-year-old was arrested while challenging a misdemeanor assault charge, and was seeking a green card through his wife, who is a U.S. citizen.
By Marcia Coyle | February 7, 2018
As Congress and the White House quarrel over the fate of 690,000 so-called Dreamers, two veteran U.S. Supreme Court advocates are urging the justices to reject the Trump administration's effort to get them involved now in the related legal fight.
By Jason Grant | February 6, 2018
The ruling, delivered by the majority of an Appellate Division, First Department, panel, comes even though the defendant, David Palmer, incorrectly told the Bronx Supreme Court at his plea hearing that he was a U.S. citizen.
By Andrew Denney | February 1, 2018
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Wednesday it has issued a formal policy on making arrests in federal, state and local courthouses, saying it will target convicted criminals and persons considered threats to public safety, but leaving a window open for arrests under “special circumstances.”
By Colby Hamilton | January 30, 2018
In a sprawling hearing to address competing motions for an injunction by plaintiffs and dismissal by DOJ over the DACA wind-down, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis once again took aim at statements made by the Trump administration.
By Andrew Denney | January 29, 2018
A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered the immediate release of a well-known advocate for immigrants and refugees from the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying that his detainer amounted to “unnecessary cruelty,” while he awaits deportation for a past criminal conviction.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp | January 23, 2018
In their Second Circuit Review, Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp write: When the Trump administration issued an order in September 2017 setting March 2018 as the end of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a flurry of litigation followed that reached the Second Circuit once and is headed there again.
By Cogan Schneier | January 22, 2018
Plaintiffs on both coasts claim their children were denied citizenship because their parents are in a same-sex marriage.
By Cogan Schneier | January 18, 2018
The Justice Department said an injunction would persist for months if the appeal is allowed to go through the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit first.
By Andrew Denney | January 12, 2018
Ravi Ragbir, an immigration advocate whose arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday touched off protests in Manhattan, has been placing his hopes that he can fight deportation on his effort to vacate a 17-year-old wire fraud conviction.
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