In the face of non-compliance by some individuals, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced severe consequences for DACA recipients who have not yet returned work permits that are valid for 3 years and were issued by the Federal Government after February 16, 2015. USCIS warned ... Read more
Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice again presented their arguments on why President Obama's immigration measures should be implemented and asked that the federal judge's order that blocked their implementation in February of this year be lifted. During the hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in ... Read more
Anyone covered by DACA who received a work permit that is more than 2 years old and was issued by the Federal Government after February 16, 2015 has until July 30, 2015 to return the document to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, ... Read more
The battle over the implementation of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans or Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) program and the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is back in court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New ... Read more
By a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans today refused to vacate Judge Andrew Hanen's February order temporarily suspending the implementation of immigration relief ordered by President Obama's executive action. Federal Judges Jerry Edwin Smith and ... Read more
In early March, Univision in California held a forum to clarify questions about President Obama's Executive Action on immigration. Since not all questions from the public could be answered, Univision chose the most popular questions submitted through its digital platforms and social networks and asked me to answer the five most important ones. Univision ... Read more
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans today heard oral arguments on blocking the implementation of President Obama's immigration executive actions. The hearing, which lasted approximately two and a half hours, was to evaluate an appeal by the Department of Justice of ... Read more
The names of the three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans who will decide whether to lift the block on President Obama's immigration Executive Action were released today. The judges are two Republicans and one Democrat - Jerry Smith, Jennifer Walker Elrod and Stephen Higginson. ... Read more
On the same day that federal Judge Andrew Hanen refused to lift the block on immigration executive actions, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of DACA in another lawsuit. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Mississippi state government and ... Read more
This week, Federal Judge Andrew Hanen refused to lift the block he imposed in February on the immigration measures that President Barack Obama announced in November of last year. The U.S. Department of Justice, arguing that the President's executive actions are lawful and constitutional, had filed a motion ... Read more
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