

GUATEMALAN HUSBAND AND FATHER OF THREE WINS “WITHHOLDING OF REMOVAL” PROTECTION IN ELIZABETH IMMIGRA
I recently posted about the Trump Administration’s attempt to eliminate asylum protections for Cental American citizens fleeing persecution in their home countries because they supposedly can seek asylum in Mexico first. I commented that the Trump Administration’s radical new “Rule,” which I feel is patently illegal, has drawn the strong concern of the UNHCR, the United Nation’s refugee agency. At the end of UNHCR’s press release they stated: “People have been leaving parts o

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS IN RESPONSE TO THE TRUMP ICE RAIDS – SEEK COMPETENT LEGAL ADVICE NOW, AND ALWAYS!
I previously commented HERE, about the need to arm yourself with information about your legal rights in the event you are undocumented in the United States. I discussed defenses to removal, even if one is already subject to a formal order of removal. So far the massive ICE “raids” have been an exercise in anti-immigrant propaganda rather than action. After originally promising to round up and deport “millions,” ICE pared the list down to a mere 2000 individuals with existin


ANOTHER ILLEGAL TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ATTEMPT TO RESTRICT ASYLUM CLAIMS
The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice announced on Monday a new joint “Interim Final Rule” (IFR) that would prevent many foreign citizens from being able to seek asylum in the United States. Under the new IFR, asylum-seekers who have not applied for protections in the country through which they were passing, and lost, would be ineligible to claim asylum upon arrival in the United States. The IFR, which is supposed to go into effect today, would pri