Rachel Browning’s Legal Blog

The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended the designation of Somalia for temporary protected status (TPS) for another 18 months, from its current expiration date of September 17, 2009 through March 17, 2011.  Somali nationals in the U.S. under TPS can re-register and extend their status, pending the U.S. government’s further [...]

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            Earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a brief it had submitted in response to a request from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in the case of a Mexican woman and her two children seeking asylum in the United States as victims of severe domestic violence. The BIA had requested [...]

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            Another beloved U.S. business institution has fallen from grace.  And this time it’s not from the financial, insurance or auto industries.  Rather, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Butler County Sheriff’s Office in Cincinnati, Ohio announced today that a $40,000 fine settlement has been reached between ICE and the Krispy Kreme [...]

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While Congress has yet to consider any large-scale reforms to our system of immigration, (a.k.a. “comprehensive immigration reform”) representatives in both the House of Representatives and Senate have introduced smaller bills, targeting specific areas of reform, particularly within the last couple of months.  Here is s brief run-down of the bills under consideration:
People Resolved to [...]

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