Rachel Browning’s Legal Blog

            In a signal that the Obama Administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are serious about responding to the criticisms of immigrant and human rights advocates, the Assistant Secretary of DHS announced this week that the DHS will be undertaking a series of reforms, effective immediately, to overhaul U.S. immigration detention system.  These reforms [...]

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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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        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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            An 89-year old retired auto-worker from Ford and twice de-naturalized U.S. citizen is desperately trying to avoid deportation to Germany, and this week the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to rule on whether his stay should be granted and case reopened.  The Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Demjanjuk in 1920) has been [...]

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            A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about President Obama’s issuance of an Executive Order calling for the closure of the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where approximately 245 individuals remain,  all of whom were brought there and held as “enemy combatants” by the Bush Administration.  But what has yet to be determined, [...]

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