Prosecutorial discretion is a discretionary relief where Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE), the agency that initiates and executes removal/deportation from the United States, can choose to temporarily pause removal/deportation or…
Prosecutorial discretion is a discretionary relief where Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE), the agency that initiates and executes removal/deportation from the United States, can choose to temporarily pause removal/deportation or…
Mi casa es tu casa – My house is your house. This is the courtesy we extend to guess in our home (whether family or a first-time visitor). At least…
President Obama to start program to provide lawyers to children facing deportation – since October, more than 47,000 children traveling without parents (unaccompanied minor) have been caught trying to cross…
A New York Times analysis of internal government records shows that since President Obama took office, two-thirds of the nearly two million deportation cases in immigration court involve people who had committed…
During fiscal year 2012, U.S. Department of Homeland Security – Immigration & Custom Enforcement removed or deported 409,849 individuals from the United States. Unfortunately, many individuals don’t know what to…
Immigration Attorney Orlando, Gail Seeram, offers a FREE in-office consultation to discuss your removal and deportation court proceedings case. Removal proceedings (or “deportation”) can be initiated against a lawful permanent…
On March 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision, Vartelas v. Holder, No. 10-1211, rejecting the retroactive application of a provision of an immigration laws passed by…
Immigrant Attorney, Gail Seeram, explains that in Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1473 (2010), the U.S. Supreme Court held that criminal defendants receive ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth…
On August 18, 2011, the Obama Administration announced the formation of a high-level working group to review approximately 300,000 pending immigration deportation cases and administratively close proceedings against individuals found…