Author: LI Immigration Editor
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Data Shows Immigrants Are Abandoning Their Cases Out of Fear of Being Arrested
In absentia removal orders are increasing at a rapid pace unlike ever before. NPR has published a story about how the data they have been tracking shows a massive increase in in absentia removal orders (orders entered by the Judge because the respondent did not appear) in recent months. This is happening throughout the country…
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Trump Gold Card Website Goes Live–Purchase U.S. Citizenship
President Trump announced the Trump Gold Card. The Trump Gold Card is a program that allows people to purchase legal immigration status in the United States. Unlike the EB-5 program, which required that the applicant invest one million dollars into a business in that would create a specific number of jobs over a specific period…
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Trump Fires Substantial Portion of New York Immigration Judges
Since returning to Office in January 2025, President Trump has fired over 100 Immigration Judges according to reporting from Reuters and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). In the last two weeks it appears he has fired at least 16 of the Immigration Judges from the three New York Immigration Courts; 26 Federal Plaza, 290…
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Pete Hegseth Approved Sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to be Immigration Judges
As part of the Big Beautiful Bill Act that was passed earlier this year in order to cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans by increasing the national debt by over a trillion dollars, there was a provision that changed the rule for the appointing of Immigration Judges (IJ) and Temporary Immigration Judges (TIJ). Prior to…
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TRUMP IS NOT DEPORTING ‘THE WORST OF THE WORST’
Only 5% of immigrants arrested by ICE under Trump have been convicted of a serious crime. 73% of those detained by ICE have no criminal record at all. The Trump Administration and the partisan hacks heading up all of its agencies (one of whom a Federal Judge found to be lying about CBP operations) have…
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Thanksgiving Policy Advisory
The Trump Administration was busy this Thanksgiving drafting a new Policy Advisory titled, Additional National Security Measures for Immigrants Including Consideration of Country-Specific Factors. The details of the new policy are in the Policy Alert: Impact of INA 212(f) on USCIS’ Adjudication of Discretionary Benefits (PA-2025-26). Countries Impacted: Afghanistan, Burma, Burundi, Chad, Republic of Congo,…
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The Sixth Circuit’s Post‑Loper Bright Approach to INA § 1229b(b)(1)(D) in Perez‑Perez v. Bondi
When does a child age-out for purposes of serving as the qualifying relative for 42b Cancellation of Removal? In Roderico Filadelfo Perez‑Perez v. Pamela Bondi, No. 25‑3146 (6th Cir. Nov. 21, 2025), the Sixth Circuit addressed an extremely important question that has caused a divide among the Circuits–At what point in the 42b non-LPR Cancellation of…
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Should You Be Afraid of Denaturalization?
The quick answer is, probably not. Unless you obtained your status through fraud then it is not something you should be concerned about. However, denaturalization is complicated so if you want to understand how it works then you’ll need to read the summary below. A Brief Guide to the Revocation of Naturalized U.S. Citizenship What…
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DHS Press Release Boasts they Removed More than Half a Million People from the US in 2025
On October 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced “record-breaking statistics with more than 527,000 illegal aliens removed under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.” “The Trump Administration is on pace to shatter historic records and deport nearly 600,000 illegal aliens by the end of President…
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Are Democrats Spending Billions of Dollars on Free “Top-Tier” Health Insurance for Illegal Migrants?
You may have noticed that the Federal Government has been shutdown most of the week after failing to reach an agreement over the Federal Budget. The Trump Administration and the President himself have been repeating that the reason the US Government is shutdown right now is because Democrats would not agree to remove billions of…