Immigration
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Latest News in Immigration
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June 22, 2017
NLRB Refers Atty To Investigator For Hearing Misconduct
A New York management-side attorney will be investigated by the National Labor Relations Board for possible discipline after he allegedly threatened workers testifying in a union organizing dispute with deportation, according to a Tuesday order.
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June 22, 2017
AILA Conference Kick-Off Highlights Resistance To Trump
At their first annual conference since Donald Trump became president, American Immigration Lawyers Association leaders struck a defiant and galvanized tone on Thursday, noting that the organization’s members played a key part in responding to the first travel ban, and making it clear that they intend to give the administration a fight.
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June 22, 2017
Employer's Atty Can Be Sued For Retaliation, 9th Circ. Says
An immigrant can pursue retaliation claims against his former employer’s attorney, who arranged to get him deported for filing a wage-and-hour suit, the Ninth Circuit ruled in a published opinion Thursday.
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June 22, 2017
SEC Says Atty Stole Part Of $89M EB-5 Investments
A Chicago-based immigration attorney was hit with a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit Thursday accusing him of funneling some of the nearly $89 million he collected from EB-5 visa holders into his own pockets instead of using the money to build senior living facilities as promised.
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June 22, 2017
Trump Nixes Obama-Era Order That Sped Up Visa Wait Times
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order revoking a provision of an executive order issued by former President Barack Obama in 2012 that sought to speed up visa interview wait times for nonimmigrant visa applicants, including students, doctors and journalists, according to a press release issued by the White House.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- U.S. Department of Justice, Board of Immigration Appeals
- U.S. Department of Labor, Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals
- U.S. Department of State
- State immigration regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
- Immigration and Nationality Act
- Immigration Reform and Control Act
- Civil Rights Act
- Asylum and refugee regulations
- Executive actions on immigration
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Employment-related immigration rules
- State immigration legislation and regulation
- Immigration lobbying
- ENFORCEMENT
- Immigration probes and enforcement actions
- Detainment and deportation orders
- Human trafficking investigations
- LITIGATION
- Challenges to immigration policy and enforcement actions
- National origin and citizenship discrimination complaints
- Worker visa disputes
- Citizenship litigation
- Civil rights and detainment suits
- Employment suits involving immigrant workers, including wage-and-hour, discrimination and harassment, and worker safety actions
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of immigration practices
Readership
- Immigration and employment lawyers at top law firms
- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals