Foreign Policy and National Security
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President Joe Biden will have to walk a political tightrope this year when it comes to immigration, as his administration continues Trump-era policies that he denounced on the campaign trail while also dealing with longstanding issues that worsened under his predecessor… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A group of nearly two dozen Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to speed up processing of work authorization requests filed by spouses of certain foreign workers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The federal courts handed down several important immigration rulings this year on issues ranging from state laws restricting private immigration detention to the details that deportation notices must contain about immigration court hearings… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The backlog of cases pending in the U.S. Department of Justice’s immigration court system continues to break records, topping 1.5 million cases for the first time ever last month, a Syracuse University research organization reported Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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President Joe Biden’s first year of immigration policymaking consisted largely of efforts to roll back the Trump administration’s restrictive policies with regard to asylum and other legal forms of immigration, as well as bolstering protections for unauthorized immigrants… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 