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Executive Action on Immigration: Good, Bad, and Ugly
I went to bed last night mentally doing a checklist of everyone I know who qualifies and does not qualify under the President’s immigration action. As a community advocate and formerly undocumented immigrant, the word that most aptly describes last Read More …
I Was Supposed To Get My Lawful Permanent Residence Today
The stage was set. The Immigration Judge gave us this date at my last hearing. It was supposed to a warm and fuzzy weekend, with my U.S. citizen partner and I flying out to San Francisco from the East Coast Read More …
Immigration Court, Take II
My partner and I both woke up at 5 a.m. and we made our way down to San Francisco for my second Master Calendar hearing yesterday. It takes about 1.5 hours to get from Antioch to downtown San Francisco in Read More …
Obama’s Immigration Announcement Creates New Generation of “Undocumented and Unafraid”
President Obama’s directive to affirmatively issue deferred action to DREAM Act eligible youth is fostering a new generation of “undocumented and unafraid” students who will be spared from deportation. But it isn’t just young people who are coming out in Read More …
FOIA: Lets Make Up Dates!
I finally got my FOIA documents from the Department of Homeland Security, courtesy my brilliant lawyer. There’s nothing of interest or importance in the stack of 300-something pages besides this one page, where the officer puts down that I entered Read More …