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Are you scared? You should be. The Laken Riley Act puts you in danger. The Laken Riley Act has made it a mandatory detention for anyone even charged with potential shoplifting. If that has happened to you, if you are charged or arrested, immediately call a criminal attorney and an immigration attorney. Protect yourself now.

Were you detained? Were you released on bond or put on order of supervision, or how we call it, OSUP? Then that means you are required to report to ICE on a specific date that is listed on your paperwork. I highly recommend that you take an attorney with you when you report to ICE. Read More

Prosecutorial discretion is the opportunity that the Department of Homeland Security has to decide whether or not they want to continue prosecuting your case. If you are in deportation proceedings, that means the Department of Homeland Security initially decided to prosecute you and get you out of this country. Under their new provisions of prosecutorial Read More

If you are a person from Cuba who came into the United States, you either crossed the border, you received a parole, or you came in with permission. Certain individuals have come into the United States with permission are eligible to receive status in the United States. Those who entered the border without permission were Read More

When a person migrates to the United States, they leave behind family members, whether it’s their spouses, their children, or their parents, or any extended relatives that they want to bring into the United States for them to have either in unity with their families so that they can all be together and be one, Read More

If you applied for asylum within the one year of you entering the country and you were granted asylum in the United States, after one year and one day of staying in that asylum status, you will be eligible for adjustment of status or an easier way to understand your green card. And that will Read More

If you have come to the United States from a country where you were harmed, or you feared being harmed in the future, you may be eligible for asylum. This harm must be connected to either your race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or your political opinion. If you feel that you Read More

Did you lose your immigration case? Were you ordered removed? Are you in front of the Board of Immigration Appeals doing an appeal at this point in time? There may still be an option to take a prosecutorial discretion with the government and get their backing in hopefully dismissing or terminating your case before the Read More

Did you receive a letter that says notice to appear on the side? Did it have charges of removability? Do you know what any of that means? I didn’t think so. What that means is the government is trying to put you in deportation proceedings and wants to take you out of this country. But Read More