Blog posts in Immigration Reform

It’s been such an interesting week to be practicing immigration law in California. The Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction ...

This week the Ninth Circuit held that a federal conviction under the Travel Act may be a federally controlled substance offense because the statute is ...

This week the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) redefined the term "obstruction of justice" and reaffirmed that a conviction for California Penal ...

Two cases came down this week from the Ninth Circuit and both held that robbery is categorically not a crime of violence. However, California robbery ...

The Board of Immigration Appeals distinguished and seemingly overturned the Supreme Court’s decision in Pereira v. Sessions and methamphetamine ...

This week had so many decisions that I decided to divide up the blog into the two truly remarkable cases and the four more mundane but still important ...

The BIA and the Attorney General did not publish any decisions this week, but the Ninth Circuit made up for it by publishing five decisions related to ...

Part II - Board of Immigration Appeals Decisions The BIA issued two decisions this past week, both of which I think might be over-turned in whole or ...

This week’s decisions out of the Ninth Circuit include an ode to Bryan Garner, editor of Black’s Law Dictionary , and another reminder that the ...