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USCIS Facing Possible Furloughs, Slow Downs

Jun 30, 2020

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Last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. (USCIS) announced that unless it received $1.2 billion to pay employees, it would be forced to furlough approximately two-thirds of its work force...

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New Executive Order Does More for Election Efforts Than Employment

Jun 24, 2020

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On June 9, we wrote that an executive order on immigration was in the pipeline that could be bad for Louisiana—our first concern as immigration lawyers practicing in New Orleans—and the Un...

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The DACA Decision is Just the First Step

Jun 19, 2020

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On Thursday, the Supreme Court overruled by a 5-4 margin the Trump Administration's 2017 decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. That’s good news, but it’s not ...

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Proposal in the Pipeline Would Harm Economy, Education, and States

Jun 9, 2020

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The president hasn’t had a good news cycle for a few months now, so it’s no surprise that he may be returning to the nationalist bread and butter that united his base voters in 2016. Immigration lawye...

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The #BlackLivesMatter Concerns Sound Very Familiar

Jun 8, 2020

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We are privileged to be immigration attorneys and work with people from all over the world. We have worked with asylum seekers who come to the U.S. to flee persecution on account of their race (among ...

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