The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the deportation of a Chilean green card holder who pled guilty to violating a Florida law criminalizing child neglect, finding the offense qualifies as a deportable crime under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.
The Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct has reprimanded a municipal judge for directing sexual remarks at children and wishing sexual violence upon them, noting that the judge exhibited racial bias from the bench.
Recent guidance narrowing the scope of the $100,000 entry fee for H-1B visas will allow employers to plan for the hiring season, but a lack of detail about the mechanics of cross-agency payment verification, fee exemptions and other practical matters still need to be addressed, say attorneys at Klasko Immigration Law Partners.
The IRS, following a judge's order, has released its administrative record in a lawsuit over its agreement to share taxpayer information with federal immigration authorities, including emails in which officials discuss U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's request for information on nearly 1.3 million taxpayers.
The Trump administration announced Thursday that it is capping the number of refugee admissions to a record low of 7,500, with most admissions going to white South Africans, who the administration has claimed have been facing racial discrimination.
A Tennessee federal judge has declined for now Kilmar Ábrego García's motion to strike allegations from the Trump administration's indictment, which the Salvadoran has argued are irrelevant to the two counts he faces for human smuggling.
Legal Aid of North Carolina has shut down a second office in one of the state's poorest counties in response to a freeze on more than $6 million in grant assistance the nonprofit gets from the North Carolina Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts, or NC IOLTA — its second-largest funding source.
Jackson Walker LLP has added a senior counsel in Houston to the firm's business immigration and compliance group who came aboard from immigration law firm Foster LLP.
