When discussing immigration deportability for two or more crimes involving moral turpitude, when does one scheme of misconduct end and another begin? I mean, “Everything has to come to an end, sometime.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz. But, in immigration law, when ...
Read More“It is time to recognize another failed enterprise.” Islas-Veloz v. Whitaker , No. 15-73120, slip op. at *27 (9th Cir. Feb. 4, 2019) (Fletcher, J., ...
View MoreThe Ninth Circuit issued its Pereira decision this week and I, for one, am very disappointed. The Ninth Circuit basically allows the Department of ...
View MoreIn order to better understand Lorenzo v. Whitaker , I asked our trusted guest blogger Sean Patrick McGinley a third-year law student at Boston College ...
View MoreThe courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) started 2019 in a relatively quiet fashion in immigration law – perhaps due to the government ...
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 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 ...
View MoreThis week I am blogging from the AILA California Chapters’ Conference in San Diego. I am so happy to be surrounded by like-minded immigration lawyers ...
View MoreWho wakes up in the morning and says to themselves, "How can I make life even more difficult for the most vulnerable populations in the world? How can ...
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