Please believe me when I say I believe in the enforcement of our immigration laws. I believe in secure borders, public safety, and an orderly immigration system. None of those principles, however, requires us to accept the proposition that the federal agencies charged...
One of the greatest challenges facing immigration practitioners today is not simply understanding the law; it is determining what the law actually is on any given day. Immigration law has always evolved through legislation, regulations, agency guidance, executive...
Few legal proceedings carry consequences as serious as removal proceedings. A person facing deportation may be separated from family members, lose employment, abandon a home or business, or be returned to a country where significant hardship, or even grave danger,...
For many employers, the conclusion of the H-1B lottery season brings a familiar frustration: identifying a strong candidate, preparing for sponsorship, and then learning that the individual simply was not selected in the lottery. Given the volume of registrations...
So far, in Trump 2.0, the asylum process in the United States has changed in very real and very significant ways. Some obvious, others less so from the outside. What used to be a difficult but navigable system has become far more uncertain, with a series of policy...
If your business depends on specialized talent, the H-1B filing season has always required planning. This year, it requires something more: strategy. Beginning with the FY2027 season, the government has replaced the purely random H-1B lottery with a weighted system....
Almost a year into Donald Trump’s second term has come a sweeping expansion of immigration enforcement, one now being framed publicly as a matter of “public safety,” but in practice rooted in fear, overreach, and political theater. The Trump Administration has openly...
In a political climate where immigration enforcement has once again become a rallying cry, the ancient writ of habeas corpus may be one of the last meaningful checks on executive overreach. Under the Trump Administration’s revived and endlessly expanding enforcement...
For most immigrants, naturalization represents the end of a long and often difficult process (or dare I say journey for some). It’s the moment when uncertainty gives way to belonging; when the right to vote, to travel freely (both within, and to and from the United...
The recent shooting at an ICE facility in Texas highlights how volatile our national conversation around immigration has become. Within hours of the incident, President Trump blamed “radical leftists” for fueling the violence. Others pointed in different directions....