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.
U.S. immigration officials spread coronavirus with detainee transfers
Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke, Reade Levinson | Reuters NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Public health specialists have for months warned the U.S. government that shuffling detainees among immigration detention centers will expose people to COVID-19 and help spread the disease. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has continued the practice, saying it is taking all necessary precautions. It turns out the health …
Trump says upcoming immigration measure will include DACA; exec order not enough, says RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri
By Franco Ordonez | NPR President Trump on Friday said he plans to unveil sometime in the next month an immigration measure that he said would include some protections for DACA — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that provides for work permits and other protections for people brought to the U.S. as children by undocumented parents. Trump had …
U.S. pandemic forces cruel choice on asylum seekers; says RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri.
(Disclosure: RLG represents asylum seeker Patricia Jimenez Gurrola.) By Laura Gottesdiener | Reuters MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – In early June, asylum seeker Jose Munoz decided it was time to flee for his life – by getting deported from a Texas immigration detention center where coronavirus was sweeping through the population and going home to El Salvador. As the number of …
High court ruling ‘a win, but tomorrow is not a guarantee’
Farah Eltohamy and Ellie Borst | Cronkite News via Indian Country Today PHOENIX – For almost three years, Phoenix resident Jennifer Rodriguez Garcia said she has lived with the fear immigration officials will deport her to a country she has never known and separate her from her 2-year-old daughter. Until Thursday. “Today I can breathe again,” Rodriguez Garcia said, after …
‘I can breathe again’: DACA recipients, experts — including RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri — react to Supreme Court ruling
By Farah Eltohamy and Ellie Borst | Cronkite News PHOENIX – For almost three years, Phoenix resident Jennifer Rodriguez Garcia said she has lived with the fear immigration officials will deport her to a country she has never known and separate her from her 2-year-old daughter. Until Thursday. “Today I can breathe again,” Rodriguez Garcia said, after learning that the Supreme Court reversed …
RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri Comments On SCOTUS DACA Decision [VIDEO]
The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this morning ruled 5-4 against the Trump administration’s bid to end the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program. Rose Law Group Immigration Department Chair Darius Amiri discusses the decision.
Supreme Court rules Trump cannot end DACA in big win for ‘Dreamer’ legal immigrants
A demonstrator holds a sign in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program outside of the Supreme Court on Nov. 12, 2019.Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images By Pete Williams | NBC News The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration cannot carry out its plan to shut down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, …
RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri discusses ‘sanctuary cities.’ [VIDEO]
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to take up a Trump administration challenge to California’s sanctuary law. Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri talks about the law and the court’s decision.
[OPINION] There’s still time to save the nation’s Dreamers, says RLG Immigration Dept. Chair Darius Amiri
Darius Amiri – Chair of the Immigration Department at Rose Law Group By Darius Amiri – contributing writer | Phoenix Business Journal While the nation’s focus is rightfully on the Covid-19 crisis, another crisis looming for a large group of young people. Dreamers are still living a nightmare as they wait for the federal government to act on their status. There is no …