Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Immigration’s Transfer of Detainees Makes Spread of COVID-19 Even Worse
Among the many problems that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been causing, you might not expect that they would be causing a larger outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. But ICE’s practice of transferring detainees could be doing just that. Detention in Holding Centers As you can imagine, among the many other human rights… Read More »
Government Proposes New Rules Making it Harder to Seek Asylum
We have written in the past about the plight of asylum seekers, and about how they are among the most vulnerable and desperate of all the people who cross our borders. However, despite all of this, it seems the government is once again making it even harder for these very desperate people to find… Read More »
Coronavirus-Related Immigration Law Changes
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is seemingly everywhere, and the shutdowns and lockdowns that the disease is causing raise problems in the world of immigration. Immigration laws and policies are being announced that affect applicants, individuals and businesses that are under time constraints to provide immigration documentation. What To Do With Denied Visa Applicants? Normally, if… Read More »
It’s Easier Than You Think to Lose Your Green Card
So you’ve gone through the process, completed your application, and you are legally in the country under one of a number of Green Card opportunities. Congratulations. You are on the path to permanent citizenship. That is, unless you do something to lose your green card and face deportation. Before you think that could never… Read More »
Families of Immigrant Doctors Treating COVID Patients Risk Deportation
A while back, we wrote about how immigration courts were carrying on as normal during the COVID-19 crisis, putting the health and safety of immigrants, their lawyers, and the court personnel in jeopardy. It seems that the government is again ignoring the pandemic when it comes to immigrants, but this time, the immigrants that… Read More »
CARES Act Excludes Financial Relief for Immigrants and Their Families
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in March, Congress passed the CARES Act. Among other things in the law, CARES provided for money for families, to assist them during this time of economic uncertainty and downturn. However, in yet another stab at immigrants, the Act had a little poison pill for many immigrant families,… Read More »
Temporary Changes to the H-2A Visa Program for Agricultural Workers
Recently, most of the news about immigration and how it’s been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic has been generally negative, like stories of cramped detention holding facilities, or the refusal to delay immigration cases in recognition of the lack of social distancing in immigration law courts. But recently, some good immigration news is coming… Read More »
It’s Business as Usual in Immigration Courts During the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic that has shut down most of the United States and the world, has put a halt to most of the country’s basic, core functions. Courts, businesses, social services, and numerous government offices have been shuttered in the name of public safety. There is, however, one place where you would think that… Read More »
Government Seeks to Curtail Birth Tourism
The U.S. Constitution clearly states that anybody born on U.S. soil, is an American citizen. It does not say that the child being born has to live in America. Many people are concerned about the rise of what is known as “birth tourism”: People who are pregnant travelling to America to have their babies… Read More »
Immigration Official’s Policies Held to be Void
A court has decided that the head of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, recently appointed by President Trump, was appointed illegally. That decision could put a number of decisions and rules implemented by the head of the agency in legal trouble, including many policies that have been very controversial. Government Position did… Read More »
