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Francesco Isgro (*) Just when a consensus in favor of a large scale amnesty program for migrants who are illegally in the United States, and for the establishment of a [...]

Calling for a national effort to establish a New Americanization Movement, the bipartisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, also known as the Jordan Commission, released its final report to Congress [...]

RULINGS FROM THE FEDERAL COURTS Court Grants Attorneys' Fees After Finding That Failure of Immigration Judge (IJ) to Advise Alien of Opportunity to Designate Country of Deportation Constituted Reversible Error [...]

Rulings from the Federal Courts In a recent article in The Recorder, the San Francisco legal newspaper that reports extensively on immigration matters, Steve Albert wrote about the 'Ninth Circuit [...]

The last term of the Supreme Court did not bode well for aliens' rights. Unlike the Court's decision in the SAW case, which made it easier for aliens to get [...]

Francesco Isgro * President Bush's announcement on June 6, 2002, to create a permanent Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, has catapulted the future of the beleaguered Immigration and Naturalization Service [...]

Francesco Isgro * The immigration agencies within the Department of Justice are being reorganized as part of a restructuring plan first announced by Attorney General Ashcroft early in November 2001. [...]

On January 5, 1999, Attorney General Janet Reno invoked her authority under INA § 244 to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to nationals of Honduras and Nicaragua who have resided [...]

A person may become a citizen of the United States by either acquiring citizenship at birth or by affirmatively applying for naturalization. The Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution [...]

On July 10, 1997, the Attorney General, Janet Reno, announced several actions that the Clinton Administration was taking to 'mitigate the harsh effects' of the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility [...]

On April 1, 1997, as most of the provisions of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) became effective, another chapter in the history of our [...]

Francesco Isgro(1) PENDING LITIGATION The Haitian Interdiction Litigation In this class action plaintiffs challenge the interdiction of Haitian migrants on the high seas and the Government's refusal to admit more [...]

Francesco Isgro [*] Finding that the Mexican government is unable or unwilling 'to control the abusive behavior of domestic violence perpetrators,' the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held in [...]

Francesco Isgro [*] On December 6, 2000, the Attorney General published the final regulations implementing the changes made to the asylum statute by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility [...]

Francesco Isgro [*] The Department of State recently announced the registration period for the diversity immigrant visa program, commonly referred to as the 'visa lottery' for Fiscal Year 2002. The [...]

Sister Jean Marshall, a Sparkill Dominican, recently left her native Bronx to travel to Washington, where she was praised by President Clinton as she received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights [...]

Francesco Isgro [*] The 1996 immigration reforms, namely the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ('AEDPA' and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ('IIRIRA'), [...]

The laws governing asylum continue to he the subject of intense litigation both at the administrative level and in the federal courts. Subsequent to the 1997 landmark Kasinga decision where [...]

Refugees and immigrants who flee to the United States seeking a better life nearly always face unexpected difficulties. Some never adjust to their new lives, often feeling as if they [...]

The United States recently fulfilled its obligations under Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, by publishing interim regulations [...]

On October 21, 1998, President Clinton signed into law the Omnibus Budget Bill, which contained a number of important immigration provisions, including amnesty for Haitians, an increase in the admission [...]

Out of Ireland, a documentary about the history of Irish immigration to the United States, is a nearly two-hour film made for broadcast on PBS and for presentation at the [...]

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, the more-than 100 spellbinding photographs in this coffee-table book tell thousands of stories. From women breaking clods with spades in the potato [...]

The Eleventh Circuit in a sweeping opinion, rejected all claims filed against the government by Cubans and Haitians who have been provided safe haven in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in [...]

Timothy E. Wirth, 54, a former six-term Democratic Congressman and Senator from Colorado, is President Clinton's point man on a slew of international issues. As Undersecretary of State for Global [...]

On a recent fall day, the Coast Guard responded to a distress signal from a fishing trawler off the coast of North Carolina and discovered 150 people crowded in the [...]