Welcome to the final blog of the year. We get to end 2018 with a doozy of a crimmigration case. This week only one immigration case came down from the Ninth Circuit; but, it’s a fun one for those of us who practice crimmigration. And, let’s face it, crimmigration is the most ...
Read More"[I]t is the will of Congress – not the whims of the Executive – that determine the standard for expedited removal." Grace et al. v. Whitaker , No. ...
View MoreThis past week the Ninth Circuit held (once again) that crimes involving moral turpitude (CIMTs) are not unconstitutionally vague and that a finding ...
View MoreWhile the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) may have found that Pereira is a very limited decision that has nothing to do with anything, the district ...
View MoreThe unspoken theme of the last few weeks within immigration law has been the issue of the separation of powers – but not the usual issue of the ...
View More"[J]ust as a block of wood is not a pencil if it lacks some kind of pigmented core to write with, a piece of paper is not a notice to appear absent ...
View MoreThe genius of American society (at least one aspect of the genius of American society) is how we have integrated refugees into our country. (Other ...
View MoreThis week we have a guest blog by Sean Patrick McGinley a law student at Boston College. Sean Patrick explains the scientific reasoning behind the ...
View MoreI am writing this blog from San Jose, California, hundreds of miles from the wildfires, I have been sitting inside for the past week, finding it ...
View MorePart I: 288c and PSC After being very quiet for a few weeks and issuing no opinions on certain days, the Ninth Circuit made up for it this past week ...
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