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Executive Action Update: FAQ on the Fifth (5th) Circuit Ruling on the DAPA & DACA Injunction

November 12, 2015

What just happened in the 5th Circuit? The U.S. Court of Appeals formally upheld Judge Hanen's injunction prohibiting the administration for implementing DAPA & DACA. The injunction prohibited the administration from implementing DAPA and expanded...

Injunction Against the Dysfunction of Family Detention

February 23, 2015

Artesia. Karnes. Dilley. Before the administration decided it would be a great idea to lock up Central American women and children fleeing from persecution, these towns were unknown. Artesia was the hometown of our government’s...

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...

Strong Presidents are Great Presidents

February 17, 2014

On this President's Day, we wish to add a historical perspective to the robust exercise of executive authority. The President routinely tells audiences that he does not have the power to act unilaterally on immigration...

An Open Letter to Rep. Spencer Bachus

March 21, 2013

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgscE9lFZN4&w=560&h=315] Dear Congressman Bachus, Thank you very much for speaking out about the overuse of detention by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in civil proceedings to determine the removability of individuals in the U.S. ...

The Leaked White House Immigration Bill: the Legalization Component

February 20, 2013

It took only three years longer than promised—and a leak that may or may not have been intentional—but the White House has finally produced a legislative proposal to fix the immigration system. Dubbed the Comprehensive...

The Whine of the ICE Bureaucrats

February 3, 2013

It has been a tough week for the ICE bureaucrats who have sought to undermine the political leadership of this country to pursue their own restrictivist and nativist agenda. Regular readers of this blog (my...

Does President Obama want to drop the one year asylum rule?

February 1, 2013

There is a single line in the President's immigration proposal that has escaped a lot of attention. As the idiotic "back of the line" concept and the path to citizenship dominate the headlines, the...

Immigration Reform 2013: The President’s Plan

February 1, 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lVIuW8vJ_E&w=560&h=315] What a week it has been. There has been more positive discussion of immigration reform in the last week than in the past decade and while none of it is perfect, it is...

Opportunity Lost- Administration Seeks Supreme Court Review of De Osorio

January 26, 2013

On the same day that the immigration world was abuzz with news that the President would unveil his immigration reform plan next week, the administration filed a brief to preserve the unnecessary family separation caused...

Time to Decide in de Osorio

January 24, 2013

The Obama administration has until tomorrow January 25, 2013 to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court to seek review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th...

Cuban-American Immigrant Poet to read at Inauguration

January 10, 2013

President Obama has chosen Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco to read at his inauguration. Blanco will be the first Latino poet as well as the first openly gay poet to perform an inaugural poem. According...

DACA, Provisional Waivers, and de Osorio?

January 4, 2013

The publication of the rule allowing for processing of provisional waivers for unlawful presence in the United States was another act of administrative rule-making that the President has undertaken to make the immigration laws more...

New Memo on Detainers- Will it be Followed?

December 28, 2012

A persistent and fair criticism of the current administration is that while it has made grand pronouncements of focusing its enforcement efforts on violent criminals and threats to the national security, programs like 287(g) and...

My Trip to the White House to Discuss Immigration Reform

November 21, 2012

In Washington, we have very hot summers without a real beach to beat the heat. Our winters can be wet, sloppy messes or we can get pounded with multiple snow storms in a city completely...

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