Legal NewsRoom
Menu
Menu
LEGAL NEWS
HOT TOPICS
LexisNexis® Legal Newsroom
ACA and Healthcare Reform
Antitrust and Unfair Competition
Banking and Finance
Bankruptcy
California
Climate Change
Constitutional Law and Civil Rights
Consumer Protection & Privacy
Contracts and Commercial Law
Corporate
Criminal Law and Procedure
Energy
Environmental
Estate and Elder Law
Family Law
Financial Fraud Law
Florida
Fracking and Alternative Energy
Health Care
Hot Topics
Hurricane Sandy
Illinois
Immigration Law
Immigration Reform
Insurance Law
Intellectual Property
International Law
International Trade
Labor and Employment Law
Law360
Legal Business
Lexis® Hub
Litigation
Mealeys
Media and Entertainment
Mergers and Acquisitions
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Public Contracts
Public media
Public Policy
Real Estate Law
Securities
Sports Law
Tax Law
Technology
Texas
Top Emerging Trends
Torts
Virtual Currency
Workers' Compensation
NEWS & INSIGHT
Blogs and Newsletters
BIZ Blog
Blog Mosaic
Business of Law Blog
Corporate Law Advisory
Legal Content Insider
LexTalk
State Net
®
Capitol Journal
News & Trending Topics
Law360
Legal Insights & Trends
Lexis Practice Advisor Journal
Professional Communities
Business Insight Solutions – Partner Portal
Corporate InfoPro (Corporate Information Professionals)
InfoPro (Legal Information Professionals)
LexisNexis
®
for Developers
Litigators Verdict & Settlement Exchange
VISIT LEXISNEXIS LEGAL & PROFESSIONAL
Search
Search
Please enter a Keyword
This should not be used for legal research but instead can be used to find solutions that will help you do legal research.
Sign In
Browse By Tags
Artesia
asylum
bond
border
Central America
central american
Children
detention
dilley
Executive order
ICE
immigration
injunction
karnes
lawsuit
letter
Obama
orr
State Department
syrian
Texas
travel ban
Trump
USCIS
yale-loehr
Daniel M. Kowalski
19 days ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Executive Order on Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs to Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration
White House, Feb. 4, 2021 "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq ., I hereby order as follows: Section 1...
Daniel M. Kowalski
1 month ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
CA4 Crushes Trump's Refugee EO: HIAS v. Trump
HIAS v. Trump "In 2019, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13,888 (the Order), which drastically alters the system by which the federal government resettles refugees across the United States. Rather than consulting with states and localities...
Daniel M. Kowalski
1 month ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Building Better, Not Backward: Learning from the Past to Design Sound Border Asylum Policy
Yael Schacher, Dec. 18, 2020 "During his first week in office, President-elect Biden should issue an executive order on border asylum policy that departs dramatically from that which President Trump put forth during his first week. President Biden’s...
Daniel M. Kowalski
2 months ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
USCIS Policy Alert: Refugee and Asylee Adjustment of Status Interview Criteria and Guidelines
USCIS, Dec. 15, 2020 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding adjustment of status interview waiver categories and expanding the interview criteria for asylee and refugee adjustment...
Daniel M. Kowalski
2 months ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
USCIS Policy Memo: Expanding Interviews to Refugee/Asylee Relative Petitions
USCIS, Nov. 18, 2020 "Purpose: This Policy Memorandum (PM) directs the phased expansion of in-person interviews for refugee/asylee relative petitions (Form I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition), to ultimately include petitioners in addition...
Daniel M. Kowalski
3 months ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Trump Sets 15,000 Limit on Refugees for FY21
White House, Oct. 28, 2020 "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, in accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the “Act”) (8 U.S.C. 1157), after appropriate...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Debunking "Extreme Vetting"
IRAP, Oct. 2020 "The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons. Mobilizing direct legal aid, litigation, and systemic...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Expert: Hong Kong Refugee Designation a "Political Statement"
Robert Delaney, South China Morning Post, Oct. 2, 2020 "The US state department announced the inclusion of Hong Kong for the first time in its annual refugee admissions proposal, a move that follows a series of actions taken by Washington in response...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
"A Complete Abdication of Our Humanitarian and Moral Duty”
LIRS, Oct. 1, 2020 "The Trump administration proposed its annual refugee admissions ceiling just before midnight on Wednesday, September 30, committing to resettle just 15,000 individuals in Fiscal Year 2021, which would be the lowest admissions...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Trump's FY2021 Refugee Proposal: 15,000 (Lowest Number in American History)
State Department, Sept. 30, 2020 "Today, the Department of State, together with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Health and Human Services, submitted the President’s Report to Congress on the Proposed Refugee Admissions...
Daniel M. Kowalski
4 months ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Calling it "Migration," State Dept. Blacks Out Refugee Data
State Department, Sept. 25, 2020 "The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) will begin migrating its Refugee Processing Center case processing system to a new IT system on October 9, 2020. This is part...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
The Fight to Save an Innocent Refugee
Ben Taub, New Yorker, Jan. 20, 2020 "The project of government relies on nonpolitical career officials following orders, and executing them well. On December 4th, some two dozen federal employees from the F.B.I., the D.H.S., the State Department...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Inside News
Right to Counsel Victory in 'Return to Mexico' Litigation
ACLU, Jan. 15, 2020 "U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw on Tuesday granted the ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties’ (ACLUF-SDIC) motions for class certification and a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit, Doe v. Wolf...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
Trump Can't Allow States to Block Refugees: Court
HIAS, Inc. v. Trump "Plaintiffs have demonstrated to the Court's satisfaction, based on statutory text and structure, purpose, legislative history, judicial holdings, executive practice, the existence of a serious constitutional concern over...
Daniel M. Kowalski
over 1 year ago
Immigration Law
Outside News
New Book - Baby Jails: The Fight to End Incarceration of Refugee Children
University of California Press "Baby Jails: The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in America, by Philip G. Schrag About the Book “I worked in a trailer that ICE had set aside for conversations between the women and the...
>