Everyone agrees that Jae Lee pleaded guilty to a drug charge and now faces deportation to South Korea because of bad lawyering. The Tennessee restaurateur, who came to the United States as a child in 1982, was told that if ...

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President Donald Trump’s recent actions on immigration issues have left attorneys and agencies scrambling to determine their options. On Friday, Trump signed an executive order to keep immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations out of the United States for three ...

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Ann M. Donnelly waited half a year for her chance to convince the Senate that she’d make a good federal judge. When the day finally came, she packed as many relatives as she could into the benches. In her opening ...

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A Canadian citizen with permanent legal residence status in the United States is facing deportation over a 20-year-old drug conviction. The Appellate Division, Fourth Department on Friday decided to uphold a 2012 order against vacating the conviction of Ronald Hoyer ...

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Deportation — Illegal Reentry Statute of Limitations — Fugitive Status United States v. Williams 11-4826-cr Judges Sack, Chin and Lohier Background: The defendant was deported in 1996.  He reentered and was arrested in 1999 ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court says there can be no retroactive application of its ruling that lawyers have to tell their clients if pleading guilty to a crime could cause their deportation. The high court’s 7-2 ruling came Wednesday ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — At oral arguments this week, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court grilled attorneys arguing over whether a permanent resident caught with just enough marijuana to roll a few cigarettes committed an “aggravated felony” that rendered him ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether to apply retroactively its 2010 decision that immigrants have a right to be told that a guilty plea could lead to their deportation. The high court on Monday agreed to hear an ...

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During oral arguments this week in a case raising the issue of whether filing a false tax return can lead to deportation, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tried to piece together what Congress intended to be an “aggravated ...

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A defendant who pleaded guilty in 2006 could have his conviction overturned because his lawyer failed to advise him of the deportation consequences of his plea, Maryland’s highest court has ruled in reinstating an order granting a new trial. In ...

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The difference between the state and federal governments’ definition of prostitution will allow an immigrant woman living in New York to remain in the U.S. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled the Board of Immigration Appeals in Buffalo ...

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In a letter obtained from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Secretary Janet Napolitano notified Majority Leader Harry Reid and 21 other members of Congress that an interagency team is beginning the task of prioritizing all deportation cases.

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