Cyrus Mehta and Jessica Paszko, Nov. 24, 2023 " This is the story of our client Nadia Habib who was in immigration proceedings from 18 months till 31 years until an Immigration Judge granted her adjustment of status on November 21, 2023! Nadia Habib came...
EOIR, Sept. 28, 2023 "This Director’s Memorandum (DM) provides guidance to Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) adjudicators on the enforcement priorities and exercises of prosecutorial discretion of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS...
NIPNLG, Sept. 15, 2023 "This practice advisory describes the Biden administration’s current prosecutorial discretion policy in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision and provides tips for practitioners advocating with DHS for prosecutorial...
Angelo A. Paparelli, June 30, 2023 "Many happy thoughts and feelings collided in my mind and heart as I read the June 23, 2023 decision of the Supreme Court in U.S. v. Texas . Pleasant Surprise. Few would have imagined that a coalition of conservative...
Prof. Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Dec. 1, 2022 "On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in United States v. Texas , which involves a challenge to a memorandum titled “Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law” issued by the Secretary...
Cyrus D. Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, Dec. 6, 2022 "On Tuesday, November 29 th , the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in US v. Texas , which involves a challenge to the Biden administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement priorities....
Cyrus D. Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, Aug. 16, 2022 "On July 21, 2022, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in United States v. Texas , which involves a challenge to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement priorities as originally laid out...
Border/Lines, July 25, 2022 "In a short writ of certiorari agreeing to hear the United States v. Texas case next term, which involves the Biden administration’s immigration priorities, the Supreme Court declined to stay a lower court injunction that had...
Philip Marcelo, Amy Taxin, Associated Press, June 28, 2022 "The Biden administration, reacting to a federal court ruling in Texas, has suspended an order that had focused resources for the arrest and deportation of immigrants on those who are considered...
Miriam Jordan, New York Times, June 25, 2022 "A Biden administration policy that prioritized the arrest of undocumented immigrants who are considered a threat to public safety and national security has been suspended as of Saturday, rendering millions of...
Cyrus Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, May 9, 2022 "On April 3, 2022 the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) Kerry E. Doyle issued a memorandum (“the Doyle memo”) which empowers ICE attorneys to exercise prosecutorial...
Dara Lind, ProPublica, July 27, 2021 "Under a new Biden policy, more than 100,000 immigrants could have their cases dropped. But that discretion is left to individual prosecutors, and many are letting the deportation machine roll on. ... "
"When Beatles star John Lennon faced deportation from the U.S. in the 1970s, his lawyer Leon Wildes made a groundbreaking argument. He argued that Lennon should be granted “nonpriority” status pursuant to INS’s (now DHS’s) policy of prosecutorial discretion...
"Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) has written a letter to the Houston Chronicle indicating that I have misunderstood his views on the efficacy and legitimacy of Deferred Action and other forms of prosecutorial discretion, in my November 22, 2014 op-ed , also...