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Recent Posts in Criminal Defense for Immigrants Category

  • Why Immigration Courts Are Deeply Flawed

    In a recent episode of Last Week Tonight , host John Oliver took on a serious topic: the United States’ dysfunctional immigration court system. The segment included several former and current immigration judges who described the horrors of immigration court, even going so far as to say that “[they’re] doing death penalty cases in traffic court setting.” That’s correct, the results of an ...
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  • Cancellation of Removal | Phoenix Immigration Lawyer

    If you are facing deportation and need to protect your immigration status, there may be some options available to you. We realize that you may be facing one of the most frightful situations of your life, as the ICE may order you back to your home country if you are not able to win your case. Cancellation of removal may be a means of recourse if you are undergoing deportation proceedings. What is ...
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  • Ways to Halt Deportation

    Facing deportation is one of the most frightening experiences of any immigrant’s life, and it should be met with swift, aggressive, and experienced legal representation. The moment you are facing possible deportation, you need to enlist in the help of a Phoenix immigration attorney you can rely on to treat you case like his or her own. If you are facing the possibility of deportation, you still ...
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  • About the Memorandum to Federal Prosecutors

    On April 12, 2017, the Department of Justice released a memorandum to federal prosecutors regarding immigration , potentially affection millions of lives in the United States and beyond. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a renewed pledge to intensify criminal immigration enforcement. Transportation or harboring undocumented immigrants, illegal re-entry, and aggravated identity theft were ...
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  • What is a "Criminal Alien?"

    The term “criminal alien” has entered the mainstream conversation, particularly in the immigration community, due to the Presidential campaign and subsequent election of Donald Trump. The President-Elect used the term frequently in his campaign, which made a crackdown and stricter enforcement of existing immigration laws one of its cornerstones. This has led to many questions regarding what the ...
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  • Violent Crimes & Illegal Immigrants: Is There a Connection?

    One of the most highly contentious topics regarding immigration and citizenship is whether or not the number of immigrants correlates with the number of crimes that occur. After this recent election, a message of fear was sent across the entire United States, inundating the public’s image of immigrants as criminals who undermine the fabric of our society. Who Is Committing Violent Crimes? However, ...
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  • Crimes That Can Lead to the Loss of Your Green Card

    Immigration authorities in the U.S. place a heavy emphasis on evaluating every person petitioning for citizenship. As such, it is important that you have a clean criminal record. Are you currently in the process of obtaining your green card? A crime on your record can halt the process entirely and even put you at risk for deportation. Being convicted of a crime severely threatens your legal ...
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