By Cronkite News | Via AZBigMedia The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it is making “drastic cuts” that will affect all agency services, including naturalizations, in order to avoid furloughs of nearly 70% of its workforce at the end of this month. Immigration advocates worried Wednesday that the cuts would add to an already large backlog of cases and …
How U.S. policy turned the Sonoran Desert into a graveyard for migrants; reforms needed, says Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri
By James Verini | New York Times The United States border patrol agent found the body, a man’s, on the southern slope of a hill about three miles outside Sells, Ariz., known to locals with long memories as Bird Nest Hill. The man was face down, his head near a rocky outcropping, his legs stretching downhill. He lay with his …
RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri Updates on USCIS Fee Hikes
By Darius Amiri| Rose Law Group Reporter In this analysis, we are discussing the recently announced proposed fee increases to many immigration applications proposed by the USCIS. USCIS is the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, they’re a division of the Department of Homeland Security. They are the agency that’s in charge of handling immigration applications here in the United …
RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri updates on Public Charge rule
The rule has been used to block entry into the U.S. of anyone likely to pose a financial burden. This week a judge did a bit of blocking of his own, with two injunctions preventing the rule’s implementation. Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri explains what this means for the immigrant community.
RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri updates on DACA
There have been important developments concerning DACA since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the program in June. Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri gets us up to speed.
U.S. immigration officials spread coronavirus with detainee transfers
Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke, Reade Levinson | Reuters NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Public health specialists have for months warned the U.S. government that shuffling detainees among immigration detention centers will expose people to COVID-19 and help spread the disease. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has continued the practice, saying it is taking all necessary precautions. It turns out the health …
RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri discusses ‘sanctuary cities.’ [VIDEO]
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to take up a Trump administration challenge to California’s sanctuary law. Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri talks about the law and the court’s decision.
[PODCAST] The Rose Report: ‘Immigration and DACA.’
On this episode of The Rose Report, hosts Wafa Shahid, Dan Gauthier and Olen Lenets interview Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri about the upcoming Supreme Court decision on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Any day now, the Supreme Court could hand down a decision that decides the fate of 800,000 DREAMers who have been allowed to live and work in the U.S. without the threat of deportation. …
Breakdown of President Trump’s executive order to suspend immigration into the United States
By Darius Amiri, Chair of Immigration Department at Rose Law Group On April 20, 2020, President Trump tweeted that he would be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States as a result of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. During a press briefing on April 21, 2020, President Trump announced: “This order will only apply to individuals …
Trump immigration order explained by Darius Amiri Chair of Rose Law Group Immigration Department [VIDEO]
Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri explains newly released details on President Trump’s executive order suspending immigration into the U.S. amid the COVID-19 pandemic.