BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL, THE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, AND MARGARET STOCK IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS-APPELLEES AND OF AFFIRMANCE - filed Oct. 9, 2024 "Amici submit this brief to emphasize the lengthy and well-established...
DoD, USCIS, July 223 "This memorandum of understanding (MOU) and relevant appendices constitutes an agreement between the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), acting through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...
Allison P. Erikson, Military Times, Sept. 12, 2023 "Nearly a year after former Afghan intelligence officer Abdul Wasi Safi was detained at the border between the U.S. and Mexico in Texas, the Justice Department has granted him asylum to live with his brother...
Every year around this time I remind readers that in 1997, U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas-Mexican border as part of the war on drugs shot and killed Esequiel Hernández, Jr. Mistaken for a drug runner, the 18 year old was, in fact, a U.S. citizen tending his...
USCIS, Mar. 22, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to provide that only applicants for naturalization under Section 328 or Section 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA...
MacArthur Foundation Fellow (and Bender's Immigration Bulletin Editorial Board Member) Margaret D. Stock gave this speech in Anchorage on Nov. 10, 2022.
GAO, Sept. 14, 2022 "Noncitizens have a long history of serving in the military. Over 100,000 noncitizens joined the military from fiscal years 2010 through 2021. The Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes the expedited naturalization of current and...
ACLU, June 28, 2022 "We write to express our concerns about Department of Defense practices that continue to frustrate the expedited naturalization of immigrants currently serving in the U.S. military. We ask for your assistance to ensure the Defense Department...
Every year around this time I remind readers: "In 1997, U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas-Mexican border as part of the war on drugs shot and killed Esequiel Hernández, Jr. Mistaken for a drug runner, the 18 year old was, in fact, a U.S. citizen tending his...
[As Margaret Stock notes, this is due more to the Samma litigation than to executive action.] Brandie Nix, DVIDS, Mar. 29, 2022 "For the first time since 2017, Recruit Training Command (RTC) held a naturalization ceremony March 17, in which 25 recruits...
Emily Green, Vice, Feb. 15, 2022 "Byron Law knew what he was doing was illegal. But the money was too good to pass up. On the morning of July 3, 2019, the 20-year-old and his friend headed out for another run in Law’s black BMW, eager to make some extra...
Joseph Cox, VICE / MOTHERBOARD, Jan. 31, 2020 "Earlier this month Customs and Border Protection seized the iPhone of an active duty American soldier as they were transferring through a U.S. airport as part of their directed orders. After questioning, the...
Sophia Tareen, Associated Press, Sept. 24, 2019 "An Army veteran who was deported to Mexico in 2018 arrived back in Chicago Tuesday for a final chance at becoming a U.S. citizen and living in the city he has called home since boyhood. Federal immigration...