Category: Removal

Two major legal issues are currently being reviewed in federal courts. One involves a proposed change to how children born in the U.S. are granted citizenship. The other concerns a series of recent deportations under a rarely used law from the 1700s. This article explains both cases in plain terms, what the courts are saying,… Read More

On August 18, 2011, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced (PDF) that the Obama administration plans to focus removal efforts on high-priority cases such as convicted felons and others posing a threat to public safety, and to initiate an interagency case-by-case review to ensure that both those currently in removal proceedings and new cases… Read More

In Hillcrest Baptist Church v. U.S.A., the plaintiffs filed a complaint for relief after U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denied their adjustment of status applications. The government moved to dismiss because the plaintiffs had not renewed their applications in removal proceedings and, thus, had not yet exhausted their administrative remedies. The U.S. District Court for… Read More