Rooted in Racism: The Human Impact of Migrant Prosecutions highlights trends and stories of people prosecuted for unauthorized entry or reentry under 8 U.S.C. § 1325 and § 1326, and the implementation and enforcement practices of Customs and Border...
Practice Advisory for Immigration Advocates: The Biden Administration's Final Enforcement Priorities
This practice advisory provides an overview of the final priorities. The Memo also suggests ways for practitioners to utilize the Mayorkas Memo and its lack of bright-line rules to craft persuasive arguments to protect their clients from harmful...
This advisory first reviews the case history and the precedent governing the legal situation Mr. Palomar-Santiago was in when he was charged with illegal re-entry. It then addresses both Mr. Palomar-Santiago’s and the government’s arguments before...
This community explainer discusses the process of budget reconciliation and the filibuster.
This training discusses immigration defense strategies from the criminal defense context.
Este comunicador comunitario analiza el memorando del 30 de septiembre de Mayorkas.
This quick explainer discusses DHS Secretary Mayorkas September 30th memo entitled “Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law.” This Memo replaces the two earlier prosecutorial discretion memos from January 20 and from February 18, but...
Yesterday the Fifth Circuit stayed a district court order that would have halted much of the Biden Administration’s interim enforcement priorities. Though the Fifth Circuit left narrow portions of the order in place, its decision represents a...
This comparison builds upon our recent practice alert, “Advocating for Clients in Removal Proceedings Using the OPLA Prosecutorial Discretion Memo,” and contains a brief overview of the variation in requirements for criminal history documentation...