Another DREAMer to be Deported: Save Herta

Citizen Says Feds Want to Deport Him

Five siblings struggle to support themselves after their mother is deported to Mexico

A Little Taste Of What Immigrants Have to Endure While Held in Immigration Detention

Customs & Border Protection in Buffalo Advises Travelers to Prepare for Busy Holiday Weekend
Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection is reminding travelers planning trips across the border into the United States to make sure they have the proper documents this weekend in conjunction with the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. As a result, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials want to remind the traveling public that there are a number of steps that can be taken to facilitate their arrival into the United States. Travelers are reminded to check traffic at all local border crossings within the Buffalo/Niagara region and select the crossing that is least congested. The most significant delays that occurred last Thanksgiving holiday weekend were on Sunday between

DREAM Activism

BIA Decision: Clarification of Voluntary Departure Requirements
The Board of Immigration Appeals has just issued a decision entitled Matter of Catherine VELASCO, 25 I&N Dec. 143 (BIA 2009).The Board has ruled that: (1) The voluntary departure regulations at 8 C.F.R. § 1240.26(c)(4), Nt. (2009), which took effect on January 20, 2009, and superseded Matter of Diaz-Ruacho, 24 I&N Dec. 47 (BIA 2006), do not apply retroactively. (2) Where an Immigration Judge granted voluntary departure prior to January 20, 2009, and the alien failed to timely post the voluntary departure bond required by section 240B(b)(3)of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1229c(b)(3) (2006), the former regulatory scheme, a

Brief Filed with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals
I just finished my brief in support of a petition for review that we filed with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. I argued that the Board of Immigration utilized an improper standard when adjudicating my client's Motion to Reopen, and that the record reflects that there was reasonable cause for my client's failure to appear at his exclusion proceedings. When adjudicating my client's motion the Board departed from the “totality of the circumstances” standard for determining reasonableness, considered facts not in the record, and cited a time limitation as a basis for the denial, specifically referencing the thirteen year period between the entrance of the exclusion order