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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – The United States Attorney’s Office (USAO), Northern District of California said two executives of a Newark-based immigration services company have been charged in a ...
A Los Angeles-based marriage agency is facing federal charges, accused of allegedly arranging sham marriages for more than 400 foreign national clients -- including some from Massachusetts -- to ...
The Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates reduced immigration to the United States (both legal and illegal), has noted that expedited removal, as authorized by the IIRIRA, gave the executive branch sufficient power to deport a large fraction of illegal immigrants, but that the executive branch had been exceedingly cautious with ...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, operates seven detention facilities in California. Immigrant rights advocates have continued to sound the alarm on conditions in these facilities ...
The term aggravated felony was used in the United States immigration law to refer to a broad category of criminal offenses that carry certain severe consequences for aliens seeking asylum, legal permanent resident status, citizenship, or avoidance of deportation proceedings. Anyone convicted of an aggravated felony and removed from the United ...
The immigration judge will set a merits hearing date when respondents file an application for relief or express to the immigration judge seeking a specific form of relief not precluded by law. The merits hearing may be a matter of days or perhaps even more than a year later, depending on the type of relief requested and the particular court's ...
In 2005, the New York Times described target letters this way: "The U.S. attorney's manual bars prosecutors from taking witnesses before a grand jury if there is a possibility of future criminal charges unless the witnesses are notified in advance that their grand jury testimony can be used against them in a later indictment."
(The Center Square) – A former Syrian government official illegally living in the U.S. was recently indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles for allegedly committing torture under the ...