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There are some cases in which people who are in the United States unlawfully and find themselves in removal (also called deportation) proceedings can cancel or waive removal. Unfortunately for Tapia Avelar, Silvia Suarez Avelar and Laura Rangel Avelar, the young Utah mothers who were brought to the U.S. from Mexico when they were children […]
Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student who was convicted of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, witness tampering and other crimes which resulted in the September 2010 suicide of his roommate, Tyler Clementi, may have bigger problems than serving a 30-day jail sentence. Ravi, a lawful permanent resident of this country, set up a webcam […]
U.S. State Department officials have declined to pursue the case of a Guatemalan child who was kidnapped from her home by a Guatemalan adoption agency and legally adopted by a Missouri couple six years ago. The State Department informed Guatemala’s government that because the two countries had not signed the Hague Convention on the Civil […]
Last week, North Carolina followed suit with several other states in passing a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman (and also foreclosing the option of civil unions and domestic partnerships for both same and opposite sex couples in North Carolina). There are, however, several states that do permit same […]
Immigrant victims of domestic violence, like other victims of violence, have many complex legal concerns which may keep them from reporting violence. In cases of victims who either do not possess legal status in this country, or those whose immigration status is dependent upon their relationship to their abusive spouse or relative, this reluctance to […]