This explainer discusses the harmful and racist impact of criminal exclusions from legalization.
This practice advisory explains how Borden v. United States affects the definition of a ‘crime of violence’ for immigration law purposes. Borden effectively held that the definition of a “crime of violence” under 18 U.S.C. § 16(a), relevant to both...
This two-day training discusses how to best represent clients with convictions in immigration court.
Criminal convictions often carry immigration consequences, including mandatory detention and deportation. A conviction is when a criminal court or jury decides that a person is guilty of a crime or a person pleads guilty to having committed a crime...
This community explainer discusses aggravated felonies and the harmful exclusion of people from immigration relief.
The purpose of this advisory is to identify issues and advocacy strategies for defense counsel representing noncitizen clients in light of this administration’s interim enforcement priorities memo, specifically in the context of assessing risks of...
This explainer discusses H.R. 6, which would create a pathway to citizenship for people who came to the United States before January 1, 2021, who were 18 years old or under when they arrived, who have stayed in the United States since they arrived...
This primer covers the key criminal-immigration and enforcement provisions of the USCA. The US Citizenship Act of 2021 (USCA, also referred to as the “Biden bill”) is an immigration bill introduced in the House on February 18, 2021 that would create...
Este manual cubre las provisiones esenciales de control y relacionadas con el sistema criminal de la ley de ciudadanía de los Estados Unidos del 2021 (USCA, a veces nombrado como el “Biden bill,” proyecto de ley de Biden).
On January 5, 2021, Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum entitled Presidential Memorandum on Inadmissibility of Persons Affiliated with Antifa Based on Organized Criminal Activity (“Memo”). Given that the Trump administration is coming to a...