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...
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The Growing Crisis of Legal Representation in Immigration Court
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,...
H-1B Candidate Not Selected? Employers Still Have Options.
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...
Asylum in 2026: A System Under Strain
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...
H-1B Filing Season for FY 2027: A Different Kind of Lottery
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....
When Liberty Itself Is on the Line: Habeas Corpus and Immigration Detention in the Trump Era
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...
Denaturalization: When Citizenship Itself Becomes Precarious
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...
We All Need to Tone It Down: My Call for Measured Voices in a Volatile Moment
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....
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Is Law: Here’s What That Means Now
Immigration law doesn’t stand still these days (even if it historically felt like moving a glacier). It is now evolving faster than many can keep up with, given the evolving and shifting priorities of the President (and Congress too), and the implications are all too...
Immigration Under Trump 2.0: Almost Six Months In, A System in Freefall
We’re just five or so months into the second Trump Administration, and already the immigration system, or what remains of what we historically understand it to be, has been gutted, reengineered, or in some cases, outright ignored. And, to be fair, I have advocated...