March 1, 2021
In his first public speech since leaving office, former President Donald Trump delighted his audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference with numerous false and misleading claims, many of them criticisms of his successor.
Trump falsely claimed that since President Joe Biden took office there has been “a massive flood of illegal immigration into our country, the likes of which we have never seen before.” Border apprehensions are up, but not close to approaching record numbers.
Trump distorted the facts when he said Biden “effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE.” Instead, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been directed to prioritize national security and public safety threats, as well as those “convicted of an aggravated felony.”
The death of a lawyer: A journey from law school to retirement
Douglas Halpert.
On some mornings, fog shrouds the Ohio River, settling into the river valley like loosely applied caulk. Twenty-three years ago, while on my way to work, my car weaved through the thick, shape-shifting strands as I navigated Kellogg Avenue, which follows the contours of the river toward downtown Cincinnati.
It was then that I noticed a cluster of turkey vultures astride a deer on the right side of the road. They clung tenaciously to its carcass as their impossibly large, pitch-black wings flapped in the wind. As my car approached, one of the birds tore off a piece of venison and consumed it as it lifted off.
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: Please welcome our newest columnist, Tahmina Watson of Watson Immigration Law, an immigration law boutique in Seattle with a focus on business immigration law. She’ll be writing about U.S. immigration law and related issues.
I am so thrilled to be one of the newest columnists with Above the Law.
I started practicing immigration law in 2006 in Seattle. It was a reluctant choice initially. Having gone through the immigration process of moving from the UK, where I was a barrister, to the United States, where I became a lawyer, immigration law was not my first choice. I envisioned only asylum cases; I didn’t really know it could be more. But as life would have it, immigration law and all its complexities kept following me around until I succumbed to it. And it was then that I realized it was my calling in life.
SAN DIEGO (AP) President Joe Biden on Wednesday lifted a freeze on green cards issued by his predecessor during the pandemic that lawyers said was blocking most legal immigration to the United States.