Posted on April 8, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Client was detained at home by Immigration based on an old conviction for possession of a controlled substance for sale and placed in removal proceedings. While in proceedings, our office was able to reduce Client’s sentence to possession only (pursuant to section 1473.7 of the California Penal Code), with no drug identified, and as a result, his removal proceedings were terminated and he was released from the Adelanto Detention Facility. Client was able to keep his green card/permanent residency and return home to his US Citizen family members.
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Posted on January 7, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Associated Press reports on the increase in denials of applications for special immigrant juvenile status following USCIS’s change to how it handles cases involving immigrant children who turned 18 before their paperwork had been completed. Lawsuits have been filed in New York and California to challenge the policy change and denials.
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Posted on December 24, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Insider reports on Peter Brown, a U.S. citizen born in Philadelphia, who was held by Florida’s Monroe County Sheriff’s Office on an ICE detainer and told he would soon be transferred to a prison in Jamaica, a country he had only visited once on a cruise
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Posted on December 24, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
In compliance with congressional requirements described in the FY2018 DHS Appropriations Bill, ICE has provided reports regarding in-custody detainee deaths beginning in FY2018. According to a report by Human Rights Watch, the ACLU, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and Detention Watch Network, “More people died in immigration detention in fiscal year 2017 than any year since 2009” and immigration detainee deaths are “linked to dangerously inadequate medical care.”
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Posted on July 23, 2018 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The New York Times reports that as the Trump administration moves to expand family detention, two of the government’s own medical consultants sent a letter to the Senate’s Whistleblower Protection Caucus detailing a series of 10 investigations over the past four years that “frequently revealed serious compliance issues resulting in harm to children.”
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Posted on October 30, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The New York Times reports that a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has been detained by federal immigration authorities in Texas after she passed through a Border Patrol checkpoint on her way to a hospital to undergo emergency gall bladder surgery. The girl, Rosamaria Hernandez, who was brought to the United States without documentation to live in Laredo, Texas, when she was three months old, was being transferred from a medical center in Laredo to a hospital in Corpus Christi around 2:00 am on Tuesday when Border Patrol agents stopped the ambulance she was riding in. The agents allowed her to continue to hospital but followed the ambulance the rest of the way there, then waited outside her room until she was released from the hospital.
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Posted on October 30, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The New York Times reports that a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has been detained by federal immigration authorities in Texas after she passed through a Border Patrol checkpoint on her way to a hospital to undergo emergency gall bladder surgery. The girl, Rosamaria Hernandez, who was brought to the United States without documentation to live in Laredo, Texas, when she was three months old, was being transferred from a medical center in Laredo to a hospital in Corpus Christi around 2:00 am on Tuesday when Border Patrol agents stopped the ambulance she was riding in. The agents allowed her to continue to hospital but followed the ambulance the rest of the way there, then waited outside her room until she was released from the hospital.
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Posted on October 3, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
There are indications that ICE has revoked a policy issued in August 2016 recommending that pregnant people “generally not be detained” and is currently detaining pregnant people “at the rate of one per day.” Cases of pregnant women being detained by ICE have been detailed in an administrative complaint filed with DHS on behalf of these women.
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Posted on August 17, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
TIME reports that undocumented immigrants are being swept up in immigration raids targeting their friends, neighbors, and coworkers. Under the Trump administration’s new enforcement priorities, ICE is instructed to detain and deport anyone who is in the country illegally, which means even so-called “non-targets” are ending up in custody after a raid.
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Posted on August 17, 2017 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The ACLU and the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies reached a settlementagreement with ICE in a suit brought regarding delays in the production of information requested via FOIA on ICE’s detention of asylum seekers who are found to have a credible fear of persecution. Among other things, ICE agreed to provide an informal description of the documents withheld in their entirety and written justification for such withholding.
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