I have testified before Congress and in state and federal court on a variety of immigration issues. Links to cases and my congressional testimony are available here.
Media Relations
Immigration is headline news. I help members of the media understand the complicated legal issues behind controversial immigration topics. View some of my media clips here.
Pro-immigration groups are criticizing a new Trump administration plan to deny green cards to applicants who use public assistance, such as Medicaid and food stamps, as an attempt to limit immigration to wealthy individuals, thus negatively impacting low-income...
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it would expand its expedited removal program, usually limited to the southern border, to rapidly deport undocumented immigrants found anywhere in the United States. The Trump Administration cites long detention...
Last week, I spoke with several news outlets about Trump's planned immigration raids. While the number of people targeted by these raids is significantly smaller in scale than the number of people ICE detains on an ongoing basis, the announcement and execution of the...
Despite Trump's claims that he wants someone who will be "tougher", on immigration issues, Kirstjen Nielsen will be perceived as the most hardline Secretary of Homeland Security we've ever had. Recent data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection Recent reveal Trump's...
Trump's call for a "tougher" secretary of homeland security is unrealistic. ABC reports on how Kirstjen Nielsen's time in the Trump administration was complicated by her accountability to Congress and how the immigration changes Trump and his administration have been...
The number of migrants seeking asylum at the southern border of the US has been steadily rising. Trump's administration has tried to make claiming asylum harder by narrowing grounds for winning asylum, imposing daily entry quotas, and forcing people to stay in Mexico...
In 2010, James Dimaya's no contest plea for residential burglargies led an Obama administration immigration judge to bring removal proceedings against the lawful permanent resident. Arguing the law used against him was unconstitutionally vague, Dimaya's lawyers...
The Trump administration asserts that Hoda Muthana, the Alabama woman who joined ISIS and is publicly pleading to come back to the United State, cannot return, but the situation is not clear cut. I spoke with CNN about some of the circumstances and details involving...
I was quoted in a Reuters article on President Trump's executive order that suspends the granting of asylum to migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. "...Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor at Cornell Law School, said the administration may struggle to...
Should President Trump make good on his threats to sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship, the move would be both legally and procedurally invalid. In an op-ed for The New York Daily News, I outline several obstacles the President’s stated...
