Posted on June 8, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Fifth Circuit reversed the district court, holding that a judge’s statement at a guilty plea proceeding that deportation is “likely” does not foreclose a noncitizen defendant’s ability to demonstrate prejudice as a result of counsel’s failure to provide Padilla-required advice about the immigration consequences of the plea.
Posted on April 27, 2015 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
This International Business Times article discusses a report released last week by Grassroots Leadership, a Texas nonprofit, which reveals how private prison companies have spent five years lobbying the government to enact conservative immigration reform both to maintain ICE’s bed quota and to ensure a steady flow of inmates into its detention centers. The report says that 62% of all ICE detention beds are now operated by for-profit prison companies.
Posted on December 26, 2014 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
DHS released enforcement statistics for FY2014, which include reports from ICE and CBP. In FY2014, ICE removed or returned 315,943 individuals, 213,719 of whom were apprehended while, or shortly after, attempting to illegally enter the U.S., and 102,224 of whom were apprehended in the interior of the U.S. CBP made 486,651 apprehensions in FY2014, compared to 420,789 in FY2013. Both apprehension and removal numbers were influenced by the 68% increase in individuals migrating from countries other than Mexico, predominately from Central America.
Posted on September 11, 2014 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The American Immigration Council, the ACLU, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the National Immigration Law Center filed a complaintagainst the federal government, challenging its policies which deny due process to refugee mothers and children being detained in Artesia, NM. The complaint asks the court to halt deportations, calling Artesia a “deportation mill,” created to send Central American mothers and children home to face certain harm, without any meaningful opportunity to be heard.
Posted on March 28, 2014 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Los Angeles Times reports that Homeland Security officials are considering shifts in deportation policy, including focusing deportations on individuals who have been charged or convicted in court and pose a potential threat to public safety, and scaling back detentions under Secure Communities to focus only on people with criminal records.
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