Author Archives: Frank Rizzo

The new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, which took effect on Sunday with little advance notice, blindsided immigration attorneys who told Law360 that it could ultimately hurt domestic workers by driving U.S. companies to do business elsewhere.

An Illinois federal judge hearing Chicago and other municipalities' dispute over migrant-focused grant funds the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stopped reimbursing should not halt that decision while the parties' case plays out, because the funds aren't being moved or used elsewhere, the federal government argued Monday.

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Three farm operators didn't jointly employ two Mexican migrant farmers who accused them of failing to reimburse workers for travel and visa expenses and requiring illegal kickbacks for meal charges, even though the farms filed H-2A visa applications together, a North Carolina federal judge ruled.

The Trump administration has doubled down on its challenge to a New York law that blocks immigration officials from making arrests near state courthouses, saying the law poses "intolerable obstacles" to immigration enforcement and must be swept aside.

The federal government is urging a Washington federal court to throw out a suit from Eteros Technologies USA Inc. and its officers claiming U.S. Customs and Border Protection wrongly deported and revoked their trusted traveler status, saying CBP's actions are in keeping with federal law.

ICE Homeland Security Investigations special agents arrested Joseph Cruz-Santiago, a 32-year-old man from Caguas, Puerto Rico, on criminal charges related to child exploitation.

ICE successfully removed Mayama Sesay, 43, to Liberia on Sept. 5. Sesay, infamously known as the rebel commander “Black Diamond,” played a prominent role in recruiting and leading child soldiers during Liberia’s civil wars.