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Despite Immigration Judge Hiring, Court Backlogs Continue to Grow
The latest figures show that the number of cases pending in immigration court continue to grow. According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), there were 496,704 cases in the backlog as of the end of March. This is almost 40,000 more pending cases than Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) Director Juan Osuna reported […]
Read MoreWhy Republican Governor Rick Snyder Calls Immigrants “Job Generators”
When Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan meets people, he likes to ask them to name five things that made America great. Almost always, he says, they wind up talking about the contributions made by immigrants. “I challenge anyone not to put immigration on that list,” he says. Certainly, he says, immigration has buoyed Michigan’s economy […]
Read MoreThis Syrian-Born Doctor is Helping to Alleviate Nevada’s Physician Shortage
It took the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Las Vegas three years to fill a job opening for a pediatric gastroenterologist. This is hardly a surprise given the nationwide shortage of physicians with a pediatric subspecialty, a shortage that means families often have to wait months to get an appointment for a sick […]
Read MoreA Chinese-American Executive Helps Chinese Companies Invest in Michigan Workers
Chinese companies are expected to invest $30 billion in the United States this year — and as president of the Detroit Chinese Business Association, Jerry Xu is determined to ensure that as many of those dollars as possible come to Michigan. The Wolverine State already has nearly 200 Chinese-owned firms contributing more than $3 billion […]
Read MoreFederal Court Grants Class-Action Status in Challenge to Obama Administration
A federal court has granted class-action status to a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s failure to provide children in immigration court with lawyers in their deportation hearings. Several thousand children are estimated to be members of the class.
Read MoreCourt Orders Release of Some Evidence of Arizona Border Patrol Detention Facilities
A federal district court unsealed some of the photographs central to ongoing litigation challenging deplorable and unconstitutional conditions in Border Patrol detention facilities in the agency’s Tucson Sector. The court also allowed the Arizona Republic newspaper to intervene in the case to argue for the release of the documents.
Read MoreLawsuit Seeks to Shed Light on Customs and Border Protection’s Complaint Process
he American Immigration Council (Immigration Council), represented by Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, today filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act to compel the release of additional documents related to the complaints process at United States Customs and Border Protection.
Read MoreVisa Process Too Daunting for U.S. Firms, Says Award-Winning Entrepreneur
The story of Radhika Reddy is a classic immigrant rags-to-riches tale. In 1989, Reddy left a low-paying banking job in India to come to Cleveland, Ohio, to earn a master’s degree in business administration at Case Western Reserve University. When she received permanent residency status six years later, she started an international business consulting firm; […]
Read MoreSupreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in U.S. v. Texas
Washington D.C. – Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in United States v. Texas. The highest court will now decide whether the President’s deferred action initiatives announced in November 2014, known as expanded DACA and DAPA, move forward. “The lawyers arguing for the deferred action initiatives made a convincing case that the law and the Constitution […]
Read More326 Immigrant Rights Groups Urge Supreme Court to Let Immigration Relief Programs Go Forward
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A diverse coalition of 326 immigration, civil rights, labor, and social service groups has filed an amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Texas, urging the court to lift the injunction that blocked the executive actions on immigration that President Obama announced in November 2014. The Obama administration’s expansion of […]
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