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EXECUTIVE ACTION: The New Enforcement Priorities Memo

November 21, 2014

As part of the executive actions reforms announced by the administration yesterday, the administration has redefined the enforcement priorities for Immigration & Customs Enforcement. Briefly, any law enforcement agency with limited resources can not realistically...

Court of Appeals Limits Mandatory Detention

October 9, 2014

On October 6, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a decision in Castañeda v. Souza that greatly limits the ability of Immigration & Customs Enforcement to subject individuals to mandatory...

Montgomery County Maryland Says No to ICE!

October 8, 2014

Great news right out of our own backyard. Montgomery County, Maryland, the county that surrounds most of Northwest Washington DC and the most populous county in Maryland, announced today that its jails would no longer...

ICE Called Him a Terrorist. We Said He’s Not. We Won.

September 9, 2014

Our Client of the Month for September 2014 is Abdul Hamid. On July 31, 2014, Mr. Hamid walked out of the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia and tasted freedom for the first time in...

California Drops a Day and Improves the Lives of Immigrants

July 22, 2014

In a move that will help thousands of immigrants, California governor Jerry Brown signed SB 1310 into law today. This law imposes a maximum sentence of 364 days in prison for those convicted of misdemeanors...

FOBR Olsi Vrapi Tries to Represent a Child in Artesia, New Mexico

July 21, 2014

Olsi Vrapi is a Friend of Benach Collopy who practices in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He recently found himself on the front line of the battle of how to handle the major influx of refugee children...

GUEST BLOG: Gender-Based Asylum Victory in Virginia by the George Washington University Law School Immigration Clinic

April 15, 2014

This post was written by Sydney Barron, a law student at George Washington University Law School and a member of the school's Immigration Clinic, under the direction of Professor Alberto Benitez. Benach Collopy periodically offers...

GUEST BLOG: Catholic University Law Students Win Protection for South African Client!

March 20, 2014

By Judith Muñoz and Tarunpal Dhillon, Student Attorneys with the Catholic University Law School Immigration Litigation Clinic We met our client, Tanya,[i] for the first time on December 18, 2013 at the Baltimore Immigration Court....

Nine Ways Obama Could Make Immigration Law Better Without Bothering to Wake Congress

March 13, 2014

The House of Representatives passed the Enforce Act yesterday. This piece of legislation, which is never going to become law, provides a cause of action to Members of Congress to sue the President for failure...

GUEST BLOG: Asylum Victory by GW Law Student in Immigration Court

January 2, 2014

By: Jessica Leal, Student Attorney in the George Washington Law School Immigration Clinic and 3L at GW Law On November 26, 2013, my client, M-L-R-, won the opportunity to sleep at night. M-L-R- was granted...

The 212(h) Aggravated Felony Bar: The BIA versus the Courts

December 16, 2013

This article was written by Thomas K. Ragland and he will present it to the South Florida Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association annual Continuing Legal Education Conference in February 2014. Among the most...

Guest Blog: NOTHING IS PERFECT: TWO CLIENTS, TWO STUDENT ATTORNEYS AND THE IMMIGRATION SYSTEM THAT BINDS THEM

December 9, 2013

This article was prepared by the George Washington Law School Immigration Clinic and was written by GW Law Professor Alberto Benitez (second from left) and Immigration Clinic Alumni Cleveland Fairchild (fifth from left), Binta Mamadou...

Does the President Have the Power to Stop All/Most Removals?

November 26, 2013

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXud2p4fQfg&w=420&h=315] As official Washington administers last rites to immigration reform for 2013 only to have it pop up again with a barely detectable pulse, undocumented immigrants and their allies continue to press the President to...

A New Fiscal Year and the Same Old Dysfunction

October 1, 2013

The air is noticeably crisper, the baseball playoffs have begun, I have started to see decorative gourds, but the traffic got a whole lot lighter today. It is October 1, 2013, the first day of...

Will the Courts Invalidate Deferred Action?

April 24, 2013

There is much hue and cry over a federal district court judge possibly blocking the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. In a lawsuit filed by Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach, on behalf...