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 …
RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri updates on Public Charge rule
The rule has been used to block entry into the U.S. of anyone likely to pose a financial burden. This week a judge did a bit of blocking of his own, with two injunctions preventing the rule’s implementation. Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri explains what this means for the immigrant community.
Should immigrants be eligible for COVID housing assistance funds? RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri comments
By Jessica Boehm | AZ Central Immigrant rights activists held a rally in downtown Phoenix on Monday to encourage the Phoenix City Council to provide a COVID-19 relief fund for undocumented Arizonans. Activists say that while Phoenix and other government entities have doled out relief funds for residents, small businesses and large corporations, they’ve “left the undocumented community to fall through …
Federal court orders Trump Admin to comply with Supreme Court DACA ruling, start accepting new applications; ruling is ‘right decision,’ says RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri
By Alison Durkee | Forbes A federal court ruled Friday that the Trump administration must begin to operate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program again, after the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has continued to not accept new applications for the immigration program despite a Supreme Court ruling last month that reinstated DACA. The U.S. District Court for the District of …
RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri updates on DACA
There have been important developments concerning DACA since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the program in June. Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri gets us up to speed.