Immigration Legal Team - USA Immigration Lawyers

01/23/2021

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration in federal district court over its 100-day freeze on deporting unauthorized immigrants, and asking for a temporary restraining order.Between the lines: The freeze went into effect Friday, temporarily halting most immigration enforce...

12/04/2020

One million undocumented immigrant teens and young adults who qualify for DACA on paper could apply for the Obama-era protections from deportation following the court order.

10/20/2020

About two-thirds of the 1,000 plus parents separated from their kids under a 2017 pilot program were deported before a federal judge ordered they be found.

09/30/2020

Immigrant rights advocates say deaths in ICE custody are a sign of deteriorating conditions, serious problems with medical care and the agency's flawed approach to handling the coronavirus pandemic.

09/28/2020

An undocumented teenager woke up from surgery to find herself separated from her family member and herself potentially facing deportation, CBS News reported.

A 15-year-old girl who was raised in the US since she was an infant was traveling with her aunt, who also does not have legal status, from Edinburg, Texas, to San Antonio for surgery for "gallbladder-related pain," according to CBS News. On their way to San Antonio, they passed by a Customs and Border Protection checkpoint which requested documents they did not have, according to CBS News.

The 15-year-old woke up from her surgery, separated from her family, placed in a government shelter, and now faces deportation.

08/04/2020

Thousands of migrant children have been expelled by the Trump administration since March. Some have been held in hotels without access to lawyers or family. Advocates say many are now “virtually impossible” to find.

07/27/2020

The agency says Friday that guidance granting visa flexibility to international students only applies to those who were actively enrolled at a U.S. school on March 9.

07/24/2020

"It’s preposterous," said a former ICE official who served during both the Obama and Trump administrations. "There’s no reason other than cruelty."

07/24/2020

The US violates the human rights of asylum seekers by imprisoning them, a Canadian judge rules.

07/15/2020

Trump Reverses Student Visa Directive, After Harvard & MIT filed Lawsuit!!!

The U.S. reversed a new policy on student visas after a high-profile confrontation with Harvard University, MIT and hundreds of other colleges, ending a standoff that could have sent thousands of students back to their home countries and left schools scrambling to plan for the fall.

07/13/2020

Indians are the second-largest group of international students in the United States.

07/13/2020

A complaint filed with DHS comes a day before a key court hearing in a case that will decide whether ICE should release parents from detention with their children.