If you are an immigrant here in the US with temporary protected status (TPS), you will lose this status if you are convicted of two misdemeanors. INA §244(c)(2)(B). And even if you have been in the US a long time and have US citizen children, you will not be allowed to stay unless your citizen (or …
Today in Baltimore Immigration Court, I was lucky to be able to help a client from Eritrea get asylum. My client had been subjected to almost six months incommunicado detention where she was raped and beaten after speaking out against the government at a work meeting. Like many Eritrean women, she had also been subjected …
In another example of reality undercutting the hysterical claims by anti-immigration proponents that border failures and a flood of new illegal immigrants require discriminatory state laws to “fill in the gap,” the Immigration Policy Center reports that immigration from Mexico (the largest source of immigration) has decreased by 60% since 2006! But this does not mean that …
