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Shustermans Immigration Update July 2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Recent Immigration News: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2. State Department Visa Bulletin for July 2018 & Predictions for FY2018
3. Immigration Government Processing Times
4. Facebook Live – Engage with Our Attorneys in Real Time
5. Success Story: Wonderful Clients Who Became Friends
6. Immigration Trivia Quiz: Non-Native Animals Living in the US
7. Why Indian Nationals are Turning to EB-5 Green Cards
8. Shusterman’s Upcoming Immigration Seminars
9. Jobs & Green Cards for RNs & MedTechs: Free Legal Help!
10. Winner for June Immigration Trivia Quiz!

NEWS FLASHES

• Senator and ICE Supervisors Ask DHS to Overhaul Agency – Senator Gillibrand (D-NY) and 19 ICE supervisors wrote a letter to to DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen informing her that the emphasis on deporting illegal immigrants detracts from efforts to combat cross-border crime and terrorism, and requesting that the agency be reformed.

• DHS Proposes New Rule on Removal of the International Entrepreneur Parole Program – On May 25, 2018, DHS proposed to eliminate the IE Final Rule because the department believes that it represents an overly broad interpretation of parole authority, lacks sufficient protections for U.S. workers and investors, and is not the appropriate vehicle for attracting and retaining international entrepreneurs.

• USCIS Redesigns Citizenship and Naturalization Certificates – USCIS announced that it has begun issuing redesigned Certificates of Citizenship and Naturalization, following a successful pilot program. Forms N-550, N-578, N-570, N-560A, N-560AB, N-645, N-645A, and N-561 were redesigned with new features to make the documents more secure and to better deter alteration and fraud.

• SAVE Goes Completely Paperless — On June 1, benefit-granting agencies will begin using USCIS SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) Program, and can no longer submit paper versions of Form G-845, Verification Request. Previously, agencies submitted paper forms to request immigration status verification and for additional verification requests. Now all agencies must submit their requests and institute additional verification electronically, drastically reducing case processing time.

• Re-Registration Period Now Open for Hondurans with TPS — USCIS announced that current beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) under Honduras’ designation who want to maintain their status through the effective termination date of Jan. 5, 2020, must re-register between June 5, 2018, and Aug. 6, 2018.

• DOJ Announces 311 New Assistant US Attorney Positions – On June 4, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that DOJ is assigning 311 new Assistant US Attorneys to assist in priority areas, including 35 additional immigration prosecutors, to combat violent crime, enforce our immigration laws, and roll back the opioid crisis. This is the largest increase of new Assistant US Attorneys in decades.

• DOS Announces Email Processing Now Required for EB-5 Petitions – DOS announced that as of June 2018, all applicants filing an I-526 petition are required to process their visa petitions electronically. Email addresses will be needed from all applicants for communication and receiving applicable case information. To submit documents, first save them as PDF files, then attach them to an email to NVCAttorney@state.gov.

• USCIS to Implement Online Processing of FOIA Requests – On May 30, the USCIS announced the launch of FOIA Immigration Records SysTem, also known as FIRST, which will allow users to submit, manage, and receive FOIA requests entirely online. Before this change, USCIS only accepted FOIA requests by mail, fax, and email, and requestors typically received their documents on a compact disc by mail. When FIRST is fully operational, requestors will be able to use a completely digital FOIA/PA system, from online submission to retrieving and downloading responsive documents.

1. Recent Immigration News: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Immigration made the headlines over and over again in June. Some of the news was very ugly like the separation of families at the border and the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s Travel Ban. Some was bad like the new restrictions on asylum and the new unlawful presence rule for persons in F, J and M status. But what didn’t make the headlines was a new Supreme Court decision that will allow many thousands of immigrants in deportation proceedings and with final orders of deportation to apply for immigration benefits and obtain work permits.

 

The Good: Pereira v Sessions

On June 21, the Supreme Court by an 8 to 1 margin held that 99% of the Notices to Appear (NTAs) before Immigration Judges have been legally insufficient for the past 21 years. This is because the law requires the USCIS to list the time and date on the initial hearing on the NTA and USCIS almost never do so.

Mr. Pereira came to the US in 2000, overstayed his visa and was placed in removal proceedings in 2006. He was ordered deported in 2007. He failed to appear for his court date because the EOIR sent the notice to the wrong address. In 2013, he was turned over to ICE to be deported.

His attorney filed a Motion to Open his case with the Immigration Judge for him to apply for Cancellation of Removal since he had by then been in the US for over 10 years and had 2 US citizen kids who would suffer a huge amount of hardship if their father’s application were denied.

The Judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) both denied his motion based on the “stop-time rule” which states that once an NTA is issued, the person’s length of physical presence in the US stops. The US Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit in New England deferred to the government’s interpretation.

Mr. Pereira appealed to the US Supreme Court which found that since the law requires an NTA to show the date and time of the hearing, his NTA was invalid and the stop-time rule did not apply. He will now be able to apply for Cancellation of Removal.

Because of this decision, we and other immigration attorneys across the country are filing thousands of motions for Immigration Judges either to terminate deportation proceedings because of the flawed NTAs or to reschedule cases to allow our clients to file applications for Cancellation of Removal and obtain work permits.

 

The Bad: New Restrictions on Asylum and Unlawful Presence Redo

On June 8, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered Immigration Judges not to grant asylum to victims of domestic violence and gang violence.

When Attorney Cheryl Gertler and I volunteered at the Dilley Detention Center, most of the women and children in the prison were requesting asylum because they were victims of either gang or domestic violence. Presumably, all of their asylum claims will be denied.

However, the only reason that this new policy was placed in the Bad, not the Ugly, category is that we should expect that Sessions’ policy will be tested in Federal Court, and Sessions lacks the authority to turn Federal Judges into assembly line workers as he is trying to do with Immigration Judges.

Also, the new expanded unlawful presence rules for students, which we linked to in our June newsletter are due to go into effect on August 9.

 

The Ugly: The Travel Ban and Family Separation

Travel Ban

President Trump’s Travel Ban 3.0 was upheld on a 5-4 vote by the US Supreme Court despite Travel Bans 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 all being found unconstitutional by lower Federal Courts across the country.

Although the decision mentioned some of the President’s anti-Muslim statements, it held that “the issue before us is not whether to denounce the statements. It is instead the significance of those statements in reviewing a presidential directive, neutral on its face, addressing a matter within the core of executive responsibility.”

Justice Sotomayor, in a scathing dissent, extensively quoted Trump’s anti-Muslim statements. Candidate Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”. When President Trump’s first travel ban was struck down in the Federal Courts, he withdrew it and issued Travel Ban 2.0 which he stated was just a “watered down version of the first one” and had been “tailor[ed]” at the behest of “the lawyers.” In September 2017, shortly before he announced Travel Ban 3.0, he tweeted that “[t]he travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific — but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!”

Justice Sotomayor criticized the majority for failing to recognize this for what it is, a Muslim ban which violates the First Amendment to the Constitution. “The majority empowers the President to hide behind an administrative review process that the Government refuses to disclose to the public.”

Family Separation

If there was any issue that galvanized the American people, Republicans and Democrats alike, it was the separation of children from their parents who arrived at our border with Mexico, most of whom are fleeing persecution in Central America.

On June 17, the DHS Secretary tweeted in response to criticism of the government separating families at the border stating: “We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period.”

However, since April, the Administration has adopted a zero-tolerance policy of criminally prosecuting adults who cross the US border without papers while placing their children in foster care or with relatives.

After a holding period, DHS transfers children to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the Department of Health and Human Services. They spend an average of 51 days at an ORR shelter before they’re placed with a sponsor in the United States, according to HHS. Well over 2,000 children were separated from their parents between May 5 and June 9.

On June 20, three days after the DHS Secretary’s tweet, after weeks of protests across the US and after 12 GOP Senators called on Attorney General Sessions to end the separations of families at the border, President Trump signed an executive order to keep children and parents together in detention.

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency maintains that allegations that they separate children from their parents if the parents apply for asylum at a port-of-entry are a “myth”. However, on June 26, a Federal Judge found that there had been a “casual, if not deliberate, separation of families that lawfully present at the port of entry, not just those who cross into the country illegally.”

The Judge ordered the Administration to reunite families who were separated at the border within 30 days. What will happen next is unknown, but this is truly a very ugly chapter of our history.

2. State Department’s Visa Bulletin for July 2018 – Predictions for FY2018

• • • • Visa Bulletins from 2002 to the Present

EMPLOYMENT CATEGORIES

In July, USCIS will only accept employment-based adjustment applications from foreign nationals with a priority date that is current for final action under the State Department’s July Visa Bulletin.

EB-2 India for professionals with advanced degrees will advance by nearly 3 months in July while EB-3 will jump ahead by 6 months.

EB-2 China will move forward by 4 months while EB-3 for professionals and skilled workers will retrogress by 2 1/2 years.

EB-3 Philippines will remain frozen at January 1, 2017.

EB-5 China and Vietnam for investors will remain frozen at August 1, 2014.

Below are the State Department’s Charlie Oppenheim’s predictions for the movement of employment-based priority dates for the rest of the fiscal year:

EB-1 China and EB-1 India remain steady at January 1, 2012, and Charlie anticipates this date will hold for the remainder of the fiscal year. It is hoped that these categories will become current again on October 1, 2018, but demand trends will be monitored over the summer. If USCIS District Offices are not interviewing EB-1 China and EB-1 India applicants with priority dates beyond the established final action date, Charlie may not have clear visibility into total demand. If there is a surge in demand for these categories beginning in October, it could cause a final action date to be imposed more quickly in the fiscal year than otherwise anticipated.

Charlie expects that a final action date for EB-1 Worldwide will be imposed either in August or September, but notes that the category will return to current in October.

EB-2 India breaks into 2009, advancing almost three months to March 15, 2009 in July, and is likely to hold at that date through this fiscal year. Charlie has significant demand in his pending demand file for this category and chose this date to offset the low demand for numbers under the worldwide annual limit through mid-May. This advancement of the EB-2 India final action date will help ensure that all EB-2 visa numbers are used by the end of the fiscal year.

EB-2 Worldwide demand has been increasing in recent weeks, but it is too early to tell if it will be sustained. If this trend continues or increases, Charlie may need to impose a final action date in August or September. If that occurs, EB-2 Worldwide will return to current in October.

Demand for EB-2 China has been low in recent months despite the steady movement of the final action date. In July, EB-2 China will leap forward four months to January 1, 2015, in an effort to generate demand. EB-3 China demand is extremely high, attributable to hundreds of downgrades, and has reached its per country limit. This results in the final action dates for EB-2 China and EB-3 China flipping again-with EB-2 China now a full two years ahead of EB-3 China. Members should not expect any further advancement in EB-3 China this fiscal year, with the final action date returning to June 1, 2015 in October. Charlie will continue to watch this and notes that as the final action dates for EB-2 China and EB-3 China get closer together, we may see the downgrade trend of the last few years start to diminish.

As predicted, EB-4 Mexico exhausted its annual limit and in July, its final action date will track that of EB-4 El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras at February 8, 2016. Charlie expects EB-4 Mexico to return to a final action date of October 22, 2016 in October but predicts that the final action date for EB-4 El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras will likely hold for the first few months of the next fiscal year.

EB-4 India demand is increasing and may result in the imposition of a final action date in August or September. If that occurs, the category will return to current in October.

EB-5 China Non-Regional Center and Regional Center will hold at August 1, 2014 in July and is expected to remain at that date at least through September.

The following charts tell the story of the EB numbers in detail for July 2018:

A. APPLICATION FINAL ACTION DATES FOR EMPLOYMENT-BASED PREFERENCE CASES

	World	China	El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras	India	Mexico	Philippines	Vietnam
1st	Current	1-01-12	Current	1-01-12	Current	Current	Current
2nd	Current	1-01-15	Current	3-15-09	Current	Current	Current
3rd	Current	1-01-13	Current	5-01-08	Current	1-01-17	Current
Unskilled	Current	5-01-07	Current	5-01-08	Current	1-01-17	Current
4th	Current	Current	2-08-16	Current	2-08-16	Current	Current
5th	Current	8-01-14	Current	Current	Current	Current	8-01-14

B. DATES FOR FILING OF EMPLOYMENT-BASED VISA APPLICATIONS– These dates indicate when immigrant applicants can send adjustment of status applications without having to wait for their priority dates to become current.

	World	China	El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras	India	Mexico	Philippines
1st	Current	Current	Current	Current	Current	Current
2nd	Current	4-01-15	Current	5-22-09	Current	Current
3rd	Current	1-01-16	Current	5-01-09	Current	7-01-17
Unskilled	Current	6-01-08	Current	5-01-09	Current	7-01-17
4th	Current	Current	5-01-16	Current	Current	Current
5th	Current	10-01-14	Current	Current	Current	Current

 

FAMILY-BASED CATEGORIES

F-1 Unmarried Adult Sons & Daughters of US Citizens

F-2A Spouses & Children of LPRs

F-2B Unmarried Adult Sons & Daughters of LPRs

F-3 Married Sons & Daughters of US citizens

F-4 Brothers & Sisters of US Citizens

An applicant’s priority date is the day that the government received the I-130 Petition. For more on family-based visas and how you can shorten your application time, see Attorney Shusterman’s video near the top of this page.

VISA BULLETIN – FAMILY

The worldwide family-based categories advance in July between 2 and 7 weeks.

India F4 (brothers and sisters of US citizens) advances by 3 weeks.

There are good advances in 2 of the Mexican family-based categories: 1st preference (unmarried adult sons and daughters of US citizens) 3rd preference (married sons and daughters of US citizens) both move ahead by 2 months while the other Mexico family categories advance by 1 to 4 weeks.

Philippines 1st preference jumps ahead by 9 weeks while the other family categories inch forward between 1 and 4 weeks.

Below are the State Department’s Charlie Oppenheim’s predictions for the movement of family-based priority dates for the rest of the fiscal year:

The family-based preference categories continue to advance modestly. Charlie notes low response rates to Agent of Choice Letters, particularly in FB-3, which is causing the dates to move somewhat more rapidly than they otherwise would.

The following charts tell the story in detail:

A. APPLICATION FINAL ACTION DATES FOR FAMILY-SPONSORED PREFERENCE CASES

 

	World	China	India	Mexico	Philippines
1st	4-22-11	4-22-11	4-22-11	8-01-97	6-01-06
2A	6-22-16	6-22-16	6-22-16	6-08-16	6-08-16
2B	8-15-11	8-15-11	8-15-11	3-08-97	2-01-07
3rd	5-01-06	5-01-06	5-01-06	12-01-95	4-15-95
4th	11-15-04	11-15-04	3-22-04	01-15-98	3-22-95

B. DATES FOR FILING FAMILY-SPONSORED VISA APPLICATIONS– These dates indicate when immigrant applicants can send adjustment of status applications without having to wait for their priority dates to become current.

	World	China	India	Mexico	Philippines
1st	3-08-12	3-08-12	3-08-12	9-01-98	2-15-08
2A	12-01-17	12-01-17	12-01-17	12-01-17	12-01-17
2B	1-08-12	1-08-12	1-08-12	6-08-97	12-15-07
3rd	9-22-06	9-22-06	9-22-06	10-08-98	8-01-95
4th	5-01-05	5-01-05	1-01-05	6-01-98	12-01-95

 

3. Immigration Government Processing Times

We link to the most recent immigration waiting times for each of the four USCIS Service Centers, the National Benefits Center and the Administrative Appeals Office. We also link to the processing times of all of the 83 USCIS District Offices and Sub-offices. We link to the Labor Department’s page entitled “Processing dates for labor certification applications”. Finally, we link to the State Department’s “Visa Wait Times” page.

Read more…

4. Facebook Live – Engage with Our Attorneys in Real Time

In July, attorneys from our law firm will discuss a wide range of immigration topics and take questions on Facebook Live. We will announce each topic in advance on the Breaking Immigration News section on our homepage.

Facebook Live allows us to provide tips and information regarding immigration law, while also providing viewers the opportunity to ask questions during the broadcast.

You can watch videos of our previous Facebook Live sessions below:

How to Stop Deportation Under Pereira v. Sessions: A Summary	US Immigration for Registered Nurses
Stop Deportations using Pereira v. Sessions
What to Do After TPS Ends	Preparing for Your USCIS Interview
Ganado Su Casa Un Tribunal De Inmigracion	Winning Your Case in Immigration Court

Our goal is to help you understand how immigration laws, regulations and procedures affect you.

5. Success Story: Wonderful Clients Who Became Friends

Immigration is very personal for me. My wife was born in the Philippines, our son in Canada and his wife is the daughter of immigrants from India. Many of our close friends are immigrants, some of them former clients of mine.

Today, we had lunch with one of my first clients, Dr. Jose Briones, a physician born in the Philippines and trained in the US.

“Joe” as we call him was the son of the Governor of Cebu, the same island where my wife is from. In early 1982, I left my position as an INS Trial Attorney to go into private practice. I discovered an INS regulation which allowed foreign-born professionals to transfer from the 3rd preference category for professionals to the 6th preference category for non-professional workers and retain their 3rd preference priority date.

This was a blessing for thousands of physicians from the Philippines who were in a long line to become green card holders. While the 3rd preference line was over 10 years long, the 6th preference line was much shorter.

All I had to do was file a visa petition under the 6th preference and applications for adjustment of status for each physician, their spouses and minor children. 90 days later, they would appear for their interviews at the local INS office and be granted permanent residence on the same day.

Many other immigration lawyers were telling their clients that they had no choice but to wait in line for their green cards to be issued years in the future, so when I started using this strategy to get green cards for my clients within 90 days, the word spread quickly and hundreds of foreign-born professionals started streaming in to my office.

Among them was Joe, his wife Kim and their 3 sons, JJ, Matt and Steve who had recently moved to Los Angeles from the East Coast. 90 days later, I took them to their interview and they got their green cards on the spot. Joe was impressed, particularly so since his prior immigration lawyer had told him that he would have to wait years to qualify for a green card.

Over the next few years, he referred dozens of his friends to me and I established a reputation for immigrating healthcare professionals and investors.

Later, Joe became our family’s ophthalmologist. My wife and Kim bonded and our families became close friends. We took a fun Alaska cruise with Joe and Kim. Later, when we visited Thailand on our way to India, their son Steve took us to dinner at a restaurant overlooking the Ayutthaya (“the Venice of the East”). JJ who attended the Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts has told me some great stories about one of his classmates who later became King Hussein of Jordan. Matt is a distinguished professor who has authored excellent books about the civil rights movement.

Fast forward 30+ years. Unfortunately, Kim has passed away. Joe is now retired. His sons are all older than I was when I helped them get their green cards. However, every time Joe and I get together, I am reminded of how much immigrants contribute to our society and how grateful I am to have been able to help thousands of families like Joe’s immigrate to the United States.

(More Success Stories…)

 

6. Immigration Trivia Quiz

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7. Why Indian Nationals are Turning to EB-5 Green Cards

Much has been written about the surge of Indian nationals pursuing a green card through the EB-5 Immigrant Investor program. While some of this rhetoric appears as pure marketing, it is true that many Indian nationals, especially those living in the United States in H-1B status, are turning to EB-5.

The reason for the increased interest in an EB-5 green card is simple: Green Cards for Indian nationals through employer sponsorship are no longer viable for many individuals and families. And there are a few reasons for this:

• Getting an H-1B visa can no longer be taken for granted; in addition to the low odds of winning in the H1B lottery, the Trump administration is restricting H-1B policies and limiting favorable H-1B adjudications;
• Immigrant visa availability backlog for Indians in EB-2 and EB-3 categories is long and getting longer;
• Indian nationals currently living in the US in H-1B status fear that their children will age out before their priority dates become current;
• The current administration has signaled a possible elimination of AC21 benefits (allowing foreign nationals to remain in H-1B status for longer than 6 years if they have an approved immigrant petition); and
• An increase in EB5 investment amount to $800,000 or $1.35M would disqualify many Indian nationals from the EB-5 program.

Given these obstacles, the EB-5 program offers Indian nationals a unique opportunity to secure US permanent residence in a relatively short amount of time – with no visa backlogs (for now) and no employer sponsorship required. Moreover, many Indian nationals living in the US are savvy investors who are familiar with US business practices and therefore well positioned to find lowest risk EB-5 investment opportunities.

Indian nationals, however, must be careful in their pursuit of an EB-5 visa. Many regional centers and EB-5 marketers see the US-based Indian nationals as the “hot” EB-5 market. As such, significant marketing dollars target the Indian nationals and the glitz and glam of marketing may mask the important issues that must be considered when making an EB-5 investment. We have previously written on the topic of project questions, and Indian nationals seeking to file their EB-5 petition before a change in EB-5 laws must take the process of project selection very seriously.

Our website has a plethora of useful information for prospective EB-5 investors. We are also available for consultations to evaluate your eligibility for EB-5 and advise you along the way should you decide to pursue an EB-5 immigrant visa.

8. Shusterman’s Upcoming Immigration Seminars

Professionals in Human Resources Association: North Orange County Chapter
Orange County, California
July 19, 2018
Topic: Complying with Both Federal and State Immigration Laws

California State Bar Webinar
July 25, 2018 12pm, PT
Topic: Trump Immigration Changes

UC Immigrant Legal Services Center
Irvine, California
July 30, 2018
Topic: Preparing a Client for a Consular Interview

Professionals in Human Resources Association: Riverside Chapter
Riverside, California
August 9, 2018
Topic: Complying with Both Federal and State Immigration Laws

Immigration Clinic
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
October 4, 2018

America Immigration Lawyers Association
Lima, Peru
November 16, 2018
Topic: Dissecting Unlawful Presence and Preparing Your Client for Visa Interviews Abroad

 

9. Jobs & Green Cards for RNs & MedTechs – Free Legal Help!

Are you a Registered Nurse or a Medical Technologist or a Speech Language Pathologist who is looking for a job in the US?

What if you could find a job, a work visa, and green cards for you and your family to live in the US? And what if the cost to you for all of this was zero dollars?

Hard to believe? Let me explain:

Our law firm represents over 100 hospitals across the country, and the nurse shortage in the US is coming back.

Our hospitals are in need of hundreds of RNs as well as Medical Technologists and other healthcare professionals. They are looking for both US and foreign-born RNs, and they will pay all of our attorneys’ fees, USCIS filing fees and more!

We have a video and a web page for those who are interested in applying for employment and sponsorship.

If you are a foreign nurse, a medical technologist or a speech language pathologist and need a job in the US and the job requires a work visa and/or green card, please do the following:

Send an e-mail message to egarcia@shusterman.com

In your message, please provide the following information:

1. Have you passed the NCLEX exam?
2. Do you have a current RN license in the US? If so, from what state(s)?
3. Have you taken and passed the IELTS or TOEFL exam?
4. Do you have a valid VisaScreen certificate?
5. Do you have any immediate family members accompanying you to the United States (spouse and children)?
6. Have you ever been petitioned by any US sponsor and hold an old priority date? If so, what is your priority date?
7. If you are present in the US, what is your current immigration status?
8. What is your RN background (area of expertise)?
9. What is your country of birth?
10. What is your country of citizenship?
11. What is your phone number?

If you are a CLS or a Speech Language Pathologist, please amend the above questions accordingly.

We will forward your response to our hospitals, and if they are interested, they will contact you. Please do not contact our law firm until after you hear from one of our hospitals.

We look forward to helping you.

10. Winner of Our June 2018 Immigration Trivia Quiz!

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Here are the answers from our winner, Balaji:

1. Bubble Tea: Taiwan
2. Yerba mate: Paraguay
3. Lemonade: India

Congratulations, Balaji! And thank you for keeping up with our newsletter~

Carl Shusterman

Certified Specialist in Immigration Law, State Bar of California
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Attorney (1976-82)
Member of AILA Board of Governors (1988-97)
Law Offices of Carl Shusterman, 600 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1550
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: (213) 623-4592 x0, Fax: (213) 623-3720

 

“By blindly accepting the Government’s misguided invitation to sanction a discrimi­natory policy motivated by animosity toward a disfavored group, all in the name of a superficial claim of national security, the Court redeploys the same dangerous logic underlying Korematsu and merely replaces one ‘gravely wrong’ decision with another.”

– Justice Sotomayor, Dissent in Travel Ban Case

 

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