"Nine owners and managers of 7-Eleven convenience stores were charged on Monday in a scheme to exploit immigrants from Pakistan, including some business-owners who used Social Security numbers of children and dead people on the workers' pay stubs. Most...
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara stated : “Our asylum laws exist to provide a safe haven in the United States to immigrants subject to persecution in their own countries for exercising freedoms fundamental to a democracy. As alleged, these defendants, including...
"The owners of an Overland Park, Kan., hotel have been indicted on charges of knowingly hiring undocumented aliens who were paid less than other employees, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. Munir Ahmad Chaudary, 51, and his wife, Rhonda R. Bridge, 40...
"Nearly two dozen members of an Hispanic gang were arrested in Kansas this week under a federal grand jury indictment accusing them of victimizing [unauthorized] immigrants who do their business in cash and are reluctant to go to law enforcement because...
"Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the owner and two managers of a Sedalia, Mo., business have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud consumers who...
"The following allegations are based on the Indictment and other court documents previously filed in Manhattan federal court: From 1996 until early 2009, EARL SETH DAVID operated a Manhattan-based immigration law firm (the “David Firm”) that took in millions...
"The FBI arrested four police officers just before dawn Tuesday morning, alleging a conspiracy that one official called “a cancerous cadre” of “bullies with badges” to deprive some residents, particularly Latinos, of their constitutional rights. The...
"Federal prosecutors say a suspended attorney known as Rabbi Avrahom David ran "a massive immigration fraud mill through a Manhattan-based law practice," which applied for legal status for at least 25,000 undocumented aliens, "based on...
Matter of X-, Aug. 1, 2022 (unpub.) "The respondent, a native and citizen of China, entered the United States in 2003, was granted asylum in 2005, and adjusted his status to that of a lawful permanent resident in 2006. In 2012, he was convicted under section...
Matter of V-A-K-, 28 I&N Dec. 630 (BIA 2022) - A conviction for second degree burglary of a dwelling under section 140.25(2) of the New York Penal Law is categorically a conviction for generic burglary under section 101(a)(43)(G) of the Immigration and Nationality...
Hats way off to Amanda Waterhouse for this June 23, 2022 victory : "We agree with the respondent that the Texas Penal Code § 22.04(a)(3) is not divisible to [sic] between offenses committed by "act" and those committed by "omission." ....
Aguirre-Zuñiga v. Garland "Jonathan Aguirre-Zuniga became a lawful permanent resident of the United States in 2007. Approximately ten years later, he pled guilty to delivery of methamphetamine in Indiana. The Department of Homeland Security concluded that...
EOIR, Apr. 12, 2022 "ISSUES PRESENTED: 1. Whether, in light of U.S. v. Herrold, 941 F.3d 173 (5th Cir. 2019) (en banc), and regardless of the specific mens rea of an underlying crime, the commission or attempted commission of a felony, theft, or an assault...
Matter of Morgan, 28 I&N Dec. 508 (BIA 2022) Larceny in the third degree under section 53a-124(a) of the Connecticut General Statutes is not a theft offense aggravated felony under section 101(a)(43)(G) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1101...
Lauture v. Garland "The Board of Immigration Appeals, affirming the decision of an immigration judge, ruled that Emmanuel Lauture was removeable from the United States because his Florida conviction for burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, see Fla. Stat....