No Immigration Detention Without a Hearing

On July 2, 2026, in Sosnava Rodriguez v. Ortega, No. 26-50183, slip op. at 1 (5th Cir. July 2, 2026)  the U.S. Court of appeals for the 5th circuit determined that the U.S. Government may not detain persons without an individualized hearing or accessing certain...

Should LPRs Travel Internationally?

On June 23, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that CBP does not need evidence rising to the typical standard for a criminal trial that an LPR must have committed a crime involving moral turpitude in order for CBP to decide that that person is an...

A Blow to Bad Law

For 73 years, since 1952, spouses of U.S. citizens have been able to adjust their immigration status within the United States if a) they were an immediate relative of a U.S. citizen, b)an immigrant visa is immediately available to them, and c) they had originally...