Regina Germain (second from left), Legal Director of the Rocky Mountain Survivors Center and author of AILA’s Asylum Primer, Fifth Edition, discusses asylum law with Steven Langer (left) and other immigration attorneys at the 2009 AILA National Conference. Here is my report on the American Immigration Lawyers Association National Conference in Las Vegas last week. […]

I cannot ever remember reading the thoughts of a government official where he addresses the real problems of local goverment involvement in ICE operations. I think it should be required reading for every state and local government official in the United States. We need to quit addressing immigration enforcement in terms of the “hot button” […]

You can find the backstory on this at the Immigration Prof Blog.

Here is the report from the Washington Post. When I think of Cuba, I always think about when I was in law school in the early 1990s and my early career as an attorney. I represented many Cuban citizens who came to the USA as part of the Mariel Boatlift. The boatlift was in 1980 […]

This is a very dangerous abandonment of the rule of law.

An Arizona couple is learning about one of the many traps in American immigration law. It’s called “false claim of United States citizenship.” In my experience, these false claim cases seem to affect the spouses of military personnel more than other groups. The typical case seems to be that at some time in the past […]

USCIS issued new guidelines trying to create a unified approach to the question of “unlawful presence.” I have not had a chance to review them yet. I’ll report back.

In law school, I received the American Jurisprudence Award for Advanced Legal Research. The award normally goes to a 3L (third year law student) but I received the award as a 2L. There are schools of thought about lawyers. A lawyer with great research abilities who can write might be referred to as a “legal […]

I wrote this last April 28, 2008, after this story appeared in The Oklahoman. This week in Immigration Court the name came up in relation to a fellow who had done nothing except have papers filed for him by this group. In essence, the gentleman would not have been in trouble absent improper paperwork being […]