On Jan. 20, 2025 President Trump issued the executive actions related to immigration linked below: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/guaranteeing-the-states-protection-against-invasion...
American Immigration Council (Council) and the National Immigration Project, Jan. 17, 2025 "A stay of removal prevents the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from executing a final order of removal...
Texas v. USA "This is the latest chapter in the long-running litigation challenging the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, commonly known as DACA. In 2021, a district court held that...
Matter of Arciniegas-Patino Where parties were properly served with electronic notice of the briefing schedule, a representative’s failure to diligently monitor the inbox, including the spam folder...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 01/17/2025 "The United States supports the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the residents of Hong Kong. The People's...
USA v. Lopez
"This appeal requires us to decide how to apply the categorical approach to a conspiracy crime—a question of first impression in our Circuit. The United States seeks to revoke Lisette Lopez’s naturalization on the ground that she committed a crime of moral turpitude within five years of applying for citizenship and willfully concealed or misrepresented during the application process the fact that she had committed a crime. The district court granted judgment on the pleadings in favor of the government on the ground that Lopez had committed a crime of moral turpitude during the statutory period. Because the crime to which Lopez pleaded guilty—conspiring to launder money—did not categorically involve moral turpitude, we reverse and remand for further proceedings consistent with this decision."
[Hats way off to the indefatigable Matthew Hoppock! An audio recording of the oral argument is here.]