Law Office of Paul S. Zoltan

05/11/2026

Please read and USE this Know-Your-Rights guide by the National Lawyers Guild. Think that you've "nothing to hide"? Think again, and exercise your RIGHTS to silence, privacy, legal representation, free expression, and - most important of all - the right to simply be LET ALONE.

04/16/2026

This administration DELIBERATELY makes it frightening, difficult, and perilous to attend removal proceedings: every no-show results in an order of deportation. For the repurposed Justice Department, cruelty is the point.

A denied venue change means Daniela Valladares Hernandez must return to Georgia for an immigration hearing. She hasn’t lived there for roughly 10 years.

03/31/2026

In the first six months of President Trump’s second term, the Department of Justice DROPPED more than 23,000 criminal cases to devote more resources to immigration enforcement. The closures included cases involving drugs, terrorism, labor and union corruption, and white-collar crime. Many of of these had been long-running investigations.

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term.

03/10/2026

A federal district court judge has halted, for now, the Trump administration's attempt to eliminate meaningful review of immigration judges' decisions.

Washington, D.C. — The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order late last night in Amica Center for Immigrant Rights et al. v. Executive Office for Immigration Review et al.

03/05/2026

The Department of Justice wants to lift its lawyers above the reach of state bar associations. Please submit your comments to the Federal Register, and say NO to impunity!

03/03/2026

At Dilley, more than half the detainees are children. Of these, many are being held "well beyond the 20-day limit set by a longstanding court order [the Flores settlement agreement].... 'We’ve started to use 100 days as a benchmark because so many children are exceeding 20 days,' said Leecia Welch, the chief legal director at Children’s Rights."

Many Americans were alarmed when ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center.

03/02/2026

The coroner ruled Geraldo Lunas Campos' death in ICE custody a "homicide," and the agency can't get its story straight. After attributing his death to an "undisclosed medical emergency," it now depicts it, essentially, as a mercy killing: he “attempted self-harm, prompting a rapid response from custody and medical staff... resulting in spontaneous use of force to prevent Lunas Campos from harming himself." Sinvergüenzas.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the death of 55-year-old Cuban migrant Geraldo Lunas Campos, who died at Camp East Montana last month, was th

02/17/2026

"[W]here the state has undertaken to provide [education], is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202, 223 (1982). This right is violated when a teacher “can no longer reassure them that campus is safe from ICE,"

In a new court filing, teachers around the country describe how President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is emptying classrooms and frightening families.

02/16/2026

The Heritage Foundation's own research confirms that undocumented immigrants virtually never cast ballots in U.S. elections, and never have.

02/15/2026

Gist: "the Trump administration is not focusing its detention and prosecution resources on the so-called worst of the worst."

The case of one Houston man, nearly deported to India after a quarter-century here, shows what happens when prosecutorial discretion is abandoned.

02/07/2026

Awful news for any noncitizen detained in Texas, Louisiana, or Mississippi if they arrived in the U.S. without lawful admission. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the government this Friday, holding that illegal entrants are subject to mandatory detention. Aghast, the dissenting member of the three-judge panel wrote this: "The Congress that passed IIRIRA would be surprised to learn it had also required the detention without bond of two million people. For almost thirty years there was no sign anyone thought it had done so, and nothing in the congressional record or the history of the statute’s enforcement suggests that it did. Nonetheless, the government today asserts the authority and mandate to detain millions of noncitizens in the interior, some of them present here for decades, on the same terms as if they were apprehended at the border.... The overwhelming majority of courts... have recognized that the government’s position is totally unsupported. Undeterred, the majority and the government distort the statutory text, abstract it from its context and history, ignore the Supreme Court’s clearly stated understanding of the statutory scheme, and wave away the agency’s previous failure to detain millions of noncitizens as if it were a rounding error."

A divided federal appeals court upheld on Friday the Trump administration's policy of placing people arrested in its immigration crackdown in mandatory detention without an opportunity to be released on bond.