By Camilo Montoya-Galvez | CBS News A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to fully restore an Obama-era initiative that protects undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation, requiring officials to open the program to new applicants for the first time since 2017. Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn instructed the …
Darius Amiri, Rose Law Group Immigration Lawyer, Discusses Citizenship Requirements
By Darius Amiri, Rose Law Group Immigration Chair With the 2020 presidential election just a few weeks away, there has never been a more important time to vote. And voting brings me to my topic for today, I am going to discuss the requirements an immigrant must go through in order to become a Naturalized citizen so that they too …
Feds Say Transferring Detainees Between Jails Holding Immigrants Contributed To COVID Outbreaks; Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri Comments
By Hamed Aleaziz | BuzzFeed News Department of Homeland Security officials have acknowledged that transfers of detainees between facilities holding immigrants for ICE had “contributed to outbreaks” of COVID-19 and that poor information sharing made tracking and preventing the spread of the virus more difficult, according to a draft report obtained by BuzzFeed News. The document also acknowledges that the inability for …
ICE Preparing Targeted Arrests In Sanctuary Cities, Amplifying President’s Campaign Theme, Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri comments
By Nick Miroff and Devlin Barrett | The Washington Post The Trump administration is preparing an immigration enforcement blitz next month that would target arrests in U.S. cities and jurisdictions that have adopted “sanctuary” policies, according to three U.S. officials who described a plan with public messaging that echoes the president’s law-and-order campaign rhetoric. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation, …
Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies At ICE Detention Center; Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri Responds
By Priscilla Alvarez | CNN Washington (CNN) – A whistleblower who previously worked at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Georgia detailed a high rate of hysterectomies and alleged medical neglect in a complaint filed to the Department of Homeland Security inspector general Monday. Dawn Wooten, a licensed practical nurse employed by the center who’s represented by the Government Accountability …
Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri updates on DACA Advance Parole
By Darius Amiri, Immigration Lawyer and the Chair of Rose Law Group Immigration Department Today I’ll be talking about Advance Parole, especially as it pertains to DACA recipients. So typically, those with DACA were brought here at a young age by their parents and we not able to leave the United States for lack of a US passport or valid visa. …
New DACA applications to be rejected; Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri calls it ‘incredibly discouraging.’
By Darius Amiri | Rose Law Group Immigration Dept. Chair On July 28, over a month after the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of DACA, Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf issued a memo stating that USCIS would not consider first time applications for DACA, and that those enrolled in the DACA program filing for renewals would only be able to …
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ ‘drastic’ spending reduction sparks sharp response from Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri
By Cronkite News | Via AZBigMedia The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it is making “drastic cuts” that will affect all agency services, including naturalizations, in order to avoid furloughs of nearly 70% of its workforce at the end of this month. Immigration advocates worried Wednesday that the cuts would add to an already large backlog of cases and …
How U.S. policy turned the Sonoran Desert into a graveyard for migrants; reforms needed, says Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri
By James Verini | New York Times The United States border patrol agent found the body, a man’s, on the southern slope of a hill about three miles outside Sells, Ariz., known to locals with long memories as Bird Nest Hill. The man was face down, his head near a rocky outcropping, his legs stretching downhill. He lay with his …
RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri Updates on USCIS Fee Hikes
By Darius Amiri| Rose Law Group Reporter In this analysis, we are discussing the recently announced proposed fee increases to many immigration applications proposed by the USCIS. USCIS is the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, they’re a division of the Department of Homeland Security. They are the agency that’s in charge of handling immigration applications here in the United …