Washington, DC, October 28, 2021 – Yesterday, the Biden administration issued the third in a series of memoranda updating and improving civil immigration enforcement guidelines. The new agency-wide guidance, entitled Guidelines for Enforcement Actions in or Near Protected Areas, sets policy with respect to ICE and CBP enforcement actions in or near areas what previously […]
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David Leopold: Don’t let Trump fool you, Sanctuary Cities are following immigration law
Dec. 13, 2016 – David W. Leopold is the former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). He has served as AILA’s top liaison to the Department of Homeland Security’s key enforcement bureaus and has testified as an immigration expert before the U.S. Congress. www.davidleopold.net The election of Donald Trump has reignited the debate […]
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David Leopold: Deconstructing Donald Trump’s horrifying 10-step assault on immigration, due process and other cherished American values
Sept. 2, 2016 – This article first appeared on The Medium: https://medium.com/@DavidLeopold/deconstructing-donald-trumps-horrifying-10-step-assault-on-immigrants-due-process-and-other-5889c58e1c01#.qfdjs510l After Donald Trump met with his Hispanic Advisory Council on August 20, the media tied itself in knots over whether he had “softened” on his insistence that all 11 million undocumented immigrants be deported, a central pillar of his campaign. Then in a […]
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David Leopold: Melania Trump becomes her husband’s latest immigration casualty
Aug. 5, 2016 – On June 16, 2015 Donald Trump sauntered out to the lobby of his Manhattan Tower, declared he was running for president and proceeded to slander Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers. The casualties of Trump’s unabashed hate speech were the millions of hard-working undocumented immigrants who aspire to come out […]