Law Offices of Brian D. Lerner
Deportation Lawyers & Immigration Attorneys Helping Families Nationwide
The Supreme Court has decided to keep the pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42 in place for now. Policy set to end on Dec. 21. Law week by Chief Justice John Roberts. The court is to review the issue whether the states have the right to intervene in the legal battle over Title 42. The federal …
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) have issued a temporary final rule. This rule makes 64,716 additional H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas available for fiscal year (FY) 2023. Ensuring DHS and DOL coordination, these supplemental visas are for U.S. employers. They need to petition for additional workers during certain periods before …
CA9 upholds permanent injunction. The Ninth Circuit declare the district court’s division of a permanent order in Moreno Galvez v. Jaddou, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to decide Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) request within 180 days of filing. The court also vacated a plan SIJ candidate to toll the lawful. USCIS has sole jurisdiction over petitions for special …
Data leaks on more than 6,000 detainees. The Associated Press reports that Immigration ICE inadvertently posted personal information of more than 6,000 people in its custody to its website for about five hours. ICE said it was telling detainees or their attorneys of the leak, which was first reported by the Los Angeles Times. That will …
Officers from the Department of Homeland Security are working with Colombian National Police to intercept Human Traffickers in between the Colombia and Panama border before they can lead migrants north. In Colombia, migration without documentation is not illegal but it is illegal to exploit migrants by charging them to make the journey out of Colombia. Over the …
Higher ed groups push for a permanent DACA solution.Multiple higher education associations, institutional leaders, and advocates are pushing for Congress to pass legislation. This legislation would provide protections for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.Members of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration are heading to Washington D.C. They plan …
Livestock farmers are pushing for the Senate to pass an immigration bill that will modernize the agricultural visa system. The agricultural industry is hoping the Senate will vote on the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (FWMA) between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Livestock farmers argue the current system does not address their need for year-round workers who have experience with …
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the Biden administration’s attempt to reinstate guidance that directed borderArguments lasted more almost two hours, Between lawyers for the U.S. government and Texas, Over whether executive branch officials have the authority to focus enforcement actions on certain groups of undocumented immigrants over others. The DHS policy at issue …
Cuba agreed to accept U.S. deportation flights that carry Cubans apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border crossingICE has about a dozen Cubans in custody which have failed an initial screening for asylum at the border. The agency is waiting until they have enough Cuban deportees to send on a plane to Havana. Cuba has agreed for the first …
Decreased on venezuelan Migration to the U.S. The Biden cabinet recently announced a change in the country’s immigration policy regarding Venezuelan migrant. This policy change has resulted in a significant reduction of Venezuelan migration to the U.S.-Mexico border in October. The amount of migrant apprehensions at the border remains high, with many people arriving from Cuba …
Philadelphia has received its first bus of migrants sent from Texas. Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has already sent thousands of migrants to other cities across the country. On Wednesday morning, the migrants arrived at Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. Helen Gym, a Philadelphia City Council member, reported that there were around 28 migrants on the bus, including …
Asylum & health-related claims Health harms — including denial of reproductive healthcare or targeted healthcare restrictions — can sometimes be part of a broader persecution claim,but eligibility for asylum depends on whether mistreatment is on account of a protected ground (race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membershipin a particular social group). Asylum law is fact-specific: …
Injunction narrowed by 9th Cir. Department of Homeland Security lost in the Ninth Circuit in its attempt to undo an injunction requiring Citizenship and Immigration Services to comply with statutory requirements for processing petitions for “Special Juvenile Immigration.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld but narrowed the injunction by saying a one-way tolling …