Rachel Browning’s Legal Blog

            Yesterday the U.S. Department of State released its 9th annual Trafficking in Persons Report, a comprehensive report outlining both the scope of the problem of human trafficking and the efforts the U.S. and international partners throughout the world are engaged in to end what has become known as modern day slavery.  The report sheds [...]

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In his campaign for the presidency, President Barack Obama vowed to promote policies that would reform our nation’s immigration system comprehensively, those that focused not just on border security, but reforms that would “bring people out of the shadows,” keep families together and remove the various hurdles that encourage people to enter and remain in [...]

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        Yesterday U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the DHS would be granting deferred action for two years to widows and widowers of U.S. citizens—as well as their unmarried children under 18 years old—who reside in the United States and were married for less than two years prior to their [...]

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Attorney General Eric Holder today withdrew the decision issued by former Attorney General Mukasey in Matter of Compean, Bangaly & J-E-C, 24 I&N Dec. 710 (A.G. 2009), during the remaining days of the Bush Administration, which effectively changed the standard applied to motions to reopen removal proceedings based on an alien’s claim of ineffective legal [...]

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