In a major legal development, the Attorney General has issued a precedential decision, Matter of Akhmedov, 28 I&N Dec. 716 (A.G. 2025), that quietly but firmly undercuts the July 8, 2025 DHS memorandum asserting that all noncitizens who enter unlawfully are...
A new decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals makes clear: for many immigrants apprehended near the U.S. border, release on bond is no longer an option. On May 15, 2025, the BIA issued a precedential decision in Matter of Q. Li, 28 I&N Dec. 728 (BIA 2025),...
This work is filled with disappointment and dead ends - good people who have no immigration options under our broken system and honorable families who lose family members to deportation because an arcane admissions system that stopped working many years ago isn't...
A bizarre and disturbing oral argument at the Ninth Circuit this morning raised questions of whether the Department of Justice had leaked confidential immigration information to the LA Times to influence a Federal Court considering whether to allow detained immigrants...
One of the most common consultation topics in our office is whether a recently detained person is eligible for a bond. The typical scenario involves an immigrant who has committed a crime, is now in immigration custody, and their family wants to get them released....