Rachel Browning’s Legal Blog

Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act (H.R. 5501), which was passed previously on July 16, 2008 by the U.S. Senate (S. 2731). The bill will now be sent to the President who is expected to sign [...]

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Details continue to emerge regarding the secret life of Radovan Karadžić, the former President of Republika Srpska, who was finally captured and arrested this week, after evading international authorities for over a decade.  Karadžić, who remains a kind of folk hero to some ethnic serbs, reportedly managed to remain hidden for so long by donning [...]

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Hi Bloggers!  While it’s been a landmark week for international law, given the recent International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment of Sudan’s President Al-Bashir for genocide in Darfur, the revelation by the BBC that China has been violating the arms embargo by exporting guns to the government of Sudan,  and the latest development in the U.S. - Mexico International [...]

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Anyone out there concerned about the current state of our immigration system or who is curious about just what goes on in the employer “raids” by officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should read the brilliant essay written by Erik Camayd-Freixas, a professor and (federally certified) Spanish-language court interpreter who witnessed the aftermath of [...]

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USCIS announced yesterday guidelines establishing a new special immigrant visa category for certain Iraqi nationals who worked for, or were contractors of the United States government in Iraq for at least one year after March 20, 2003.  Section 1244 of the Defense Authorization Act (DAA) provides for 5,000 special immigrant visas for Iraqi employees and [...]

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