Author Archives: Frank Rizzo

A Minnesota law firm and human rights group that accused the Trump administration of unlawfully fast-tracking removal proceedings for nondetained Somali immigrants voluntarily dropped their lawsuit Monday, about two weeks after a D.C. federal judge found they likely lacked standing.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi raises the bar for overturning agency findings in federal court, changing how practitioners handling asylum and removal defense cases need to think about building a factual record and formulating arguments on appeal, say attorneys at Lai & Turner and Farzaneh Law.

The Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that an immigration judge mistakenly relied solely on the deportation protection afforded by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to terminate the removal proceedings of a Mexican DACA recipient.

The federal government pushed back Friday on Illinois' bid to dismiss its challenge to two state laws allowing private parties to sue civil immigration officers and barring civil immigration arrests at courthouses, insisting it has standing to sue over its "sovereign injury" because the statutes unconstitutionally regulate the federal government's immigration enforcement.

The Trump administration must continue to adjudicate the permanent residency applications of individuals from countries subject to President Donald Trump's travel bans, a Maryland federal court has ruled, barring U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from implementing an indefinite hold.

Homeland Security Investigations Washington, D.C., through its Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center, uncovered 53-year-old Nada Radovan Tomanic’s dark past and held her accountable for exploiting the American immigration system.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review whether the U.S. Department of Labor can levy $580,000 in penalties via its in-house court against a New Jersey farm for alleged violations of the H-2A temporary visa worker program.