Buzzkill: USCIS Set to Deny Citizenship for Immigrants Working in the Legal Marijuana Industry

Buzzkill: USCIS Set to Deny Citizenship for Immigrants Working in the Legal Marijuana Industry

Apr 22, 2019

Are immigrant cannabis workers risking deportation? It’s a mantra in our office to warn immigra...

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Top of the Ninth: The Ninth Circuit Reissues an Interesting Immigration Decision on Adverse Credibility in Asylum Cases

Top of the Ninth: The Ninth Circuit Reissues an Interesting Immigration Decision on Adverse Credibility in Asylum Cases

Feb 22, 2019

This week a rather bizarre immigration case came down from the Ninth Circuit. Not that the case itse...

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Top of the Ninth: Immigration Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude. What exactly is a single scheme of misconduct? When does one crime end and a second one begin?

Top of the Ninth: Immigration Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude. What exactly is a single scheme of misconduct? When does one crime end and a second one begin?

Feb 15, 2019

When discussing immigration deportability for two or more crimes involving moral turpitude, when doe...

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Top of the Ninth: The Ninth Circuit Again Holds that an Immigration CIMT is not Unconstitutionally Vague Top of the Ninth: The Ninth Circuit Again Holds that an Immigration CIMT is not Unconstitutionally Vague

Top of the Ninth: The Ninth Circuit Again Holds that an Immigration CIMT is not Unconstitutionally Vague Top of the Ninth: The Ninth Circuit Again Holds that an Immigration CIMT is not Unconstitutionally Vague

Feb 08, 2019

“It is time to recognize another failed enterprise.” Islas-Veloz v. Whitaker, No. 15-73120, sli...

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Top of the Ninth: The Ninth Circuit Rules Pereira Doesn’t Apply to Immigration Court Jurisdiction – So What Now?

Top of the Ninth: The Ninth Circuit Rules Pereira Doesn’t Apply to Immigration Court Jurisdiction – So What Now?

Feb 01, 2019

The Ninth Circuit issued its Pereira decision this week and I, for one, am very disappointed. The ...

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Top of the Ninth: Robbery is a Crime of Violence After All; California Meth Might be Meth After All; and, there is no De Minimis Exception to the Material Support Bar for Asylum

Top of the Ninth: Robbery is a Crime of Violence After All; California Meth Might be Meth After All; and, there is no De Minimis Exception to the Material Support Bar for Asylum

Jan 18, 2019

Remember way back in August 2018, when we could say, "When is meth not meth? When it’s California ...

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Top of the Ninth – Guest blog: The Science Behind Lorenzo v. Whitaker and Lorenzo v. Sessions

Top of the Ninth – Guest blog: The Science Behind Lorenzo v. Whitaker and Lorenzo v. Sessions

Jan 18, 2019

In order to better understand Lorenzo v. Whitaker, I asked our trusted guest blogger Sean Patrick M...

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Top of the Ninth: Second Amendment Rights for Undocumented Immigrants and Robbery is An Aggravated Felony as a Theft Offense

Top of the Ninth: Second Amendment Rights for Undocumented Immigrants and Robbery is An Aggravated Felony as a Theft Offense

Jan 11, 2019

The courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) started 2019 in a relatively quiet fashion in...

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Top of the Ninth: An Arizona Domestic Violence Conviction is a Crime of Violence – Sometimes….

Top of the Ninth: An Arizona Domestic Violence Conviction is a Crime of Violence – Sometimes….

Dec 28, 2018

Welcome to the final blog of the year. We get to end 2018 with a doozy of a crimmigration case. This...

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