State Department, Feb. 11, 2025 "The White House issued Executive Order "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" on January...
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Lapadat v. Bondi "As appellate judges, we generally defer to the reasoned and expert judgment of our colleagues in the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), whom we trust to carefully...
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NILC, Feb. 6, 2025 "In one of his first anti-immigrant Executive Orders (EOs), President Trump threatened to make undocumented immigrants “register” with the U.S. government or face...
Lawyers, Lexicologists and Dancing Angels - "U.S. immigration law calls a foreign national’s arrival in the United States, without inspection by a border official, an “illegal entry.” The law refers to those who make an illegal entry as “illegal entrants.” Having crossed the border, illegal entrants are said to be “unlawfully present” in our country. In other words, while the entry to our country by these individuals is illegal, their presence here in unlawful. Are “illegal” and “unlawful” two ways for saying the same thing, or did Congress in its wisdom see a meaningful difference between these terms?" - Liam Schwartz, Consular Corner, Sept. 2014.