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President-elect Joe Biden’s plans for immigration are expected to be a stark contrast to the Trump administration agenda.  Some of President-elect Biden’s stated priorities are: Reinstating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) The Trump administration has relentlessly attached the DACA program.  President-elect Biden has…

Last Friday, February 10, for the first time under President Trump, an individual covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (“DACA”) was taken into custody. Daniel Ramirez Medina, a 23-year-old with no criminal record who was brought to the United States from Mexico when he was seven years…

Last Week the New York Times reported that mass deportations would negatively impact the housing market, as evidenced by research showing that mass deportation of more than three million undocumented immigrants between 2005 and 2013 helped exacerbate foreclosures.  Simply speaking chronologically, the massive pile-up of foreclosures during the housing crash,…

(This is part two of our three-part series on the development of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, with a look at President Obama’s its proposed expansion and the development of DAPA) On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced an expansion of the DACA program which increased the pool of potential…

(This begins our three-part series on the development of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, its proposed expansion, DAPA, and the recent developments in the US Supreme Court) On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama unveiled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) to protect certain classes of undocumented immigrants.…

Over the weekend, immigration officials stayed true to their word and began their next phase of immigration law enforcement against Central American nationals who have received a final order of removal from an immigration judge in recent years. While immigration officials claim they are only looking to find and remove…

The immigration attorneys at Lubiner, Schmidt & Palumbo, LLC have taken a great interest in a recent case heard by the New Jersey Supreme Court. The case grappled with how an illegal immigrant should be told what his or her chances of being deported are if they plead guilty to…

Approximately 2 million people have been deported during the Obama administration, prompting the country’s largest Latino advocacy group to label the President as the “Deporter in Chief.” Perhaps sensitive to this label, President Obama recently asked top immigration officials to review deportation practices to see if they can be made…

If a local law enforcement agency (LEA) has arrested someone that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) believes may be subject to removal from the US, the agency may request an immigration detainer for that individual. The detainer, or hold, informs the LEA it would like an alien to be…

Pop singer Justin Bieber was recently arrested in Miami Beach on suspicion of drunk driving, resisting arrest, and driving without a valid license. On the face of it, it seems like this would be a simple case for a local criminal court, but some have questioned whether Bieber, who is…