Law
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President Joe Biden hasn’t shied away from using controversial technologies for immigration enforcement, raising concerns that his predecessor’s pet project to build a border wall is being replaced with a “virtual wall” rife with privacy and civil liberties problems… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland will review his predecessor’s decision declaring that persecutors aren’t eligible for asylum even if they committed crimes under duress, potentially altering the direction of a case that has been running for 17 years… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Department of State must issue more than 9,000 additional diversity visas before October 2022, a D.C. federal judge ruled Wednesday, describing the deadline as a compromise between the shorter time frame the visa winners wanted and the longer one the government sought… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Biden administration has proposed ending preferential contracts with nonprofits that employ blind or seriously disabled workers if the nonprofits take advantage of a law allowing them to pay those employees less than the standard minimum wage… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An Afghan man who worked with the U.S. government in the Central Asian country told a California federal court that the U.S. Department of State failed to protect his children from the Taliban while their visa applications are processed… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 