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• OPINION: Kilmar Ábrego García and Our Constitutional Crisis

  Kilmar Ábrego García fled El Salvador as a teenager, running from gang violence that would have consumed him. For fourteen years, he built America—literally. His hands laid the concrete, raised the steel, and constructed the roads and buildings that form the backbone of our infrastructure. He married Jennifer Vasquez Sura, a U.S. citizen, and together...

• Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported migrant, released from federal custody

    NBC News reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador and accused of being a gang member, was released from federal custody this afternoon.  Abrego Garcia’s case made it to the Supreme Court, which held that the U.S. government should facilitate his return to the United States.  He was...

• Justice Department Hits Judge in El Salvador Deportation Case With Ethics Complaint

  The misconduct claim against US District Chief Judge James Boasberg was announced by Attorney General Pam Bondi

• Court Delays Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from federal custody

  Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Wrongfully removed to El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has much experience in the U.S. courts.  The Supreme Court ordered the U.S. government to facilitate his return from El Salvador.  After languishing in Salvadoran prison for several months, Abrego Garcia was returned to the United States only to be charged with...

• El Salvador Sends U.S. Venezuelan Deportees to Venezuela and Americans Home

  Reuters reports that over 200 Venezuelans who were deported from the United States on allegations of gang membership earlier this year and detained in an El Salvador jail arrived home to Caracas on Friday. The release was part of an exchange, with 10 Americans held in Venezuela returned to the United States.  See also here....

• New Republic: “Whistleblower Emails Expose Fresh Trump Abuses in Abrego Garcia Case Newly released communications show the lengths the Trump administration went to in order to label Kilmar Abrego Garcia an MS-13 leader.”

  The New Republic reports that “Emails provided to Congress by a whistleblower and 15-year veteran of the Justice Department reveal that administration officials went to striking lengths to prop up the claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a “leader” of the MS-13 gang—even as President Trump was coming under intense pressure to return him from...

• Lawyers say new evidence challenges Trump on El Salvador prisons

  They say Salvadoran officials, not US administration, have legal authority over the men

• Salvadoran President Bukele denies beating and torture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

  The Associated Press reports that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele denied allegations that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was beaten and subject to psychological torture in a Salvadoran prison.  In a post on the social media platform X, Bukele wrote that Abrego Garcia “wasn’t tortured, nor did he lose weight.” The post included pictures and video of Abrego...

• Your Saturday Read: Mario Guevara, Immigration Reporter, Detained by ICE

  Holy smokes, y’all. I highly recommend this New Yorker article on the life and times of Mario Guevara, an El Salvadoran national who reports on immigration in the Atlanta area. In his 20s, Guevara was a reporter in El Salvador. He and his family fled El Salvador for the US in 2004. Guevara applied for asylum,...

• Celebrating Upcoming Josue Lopez High School Graduation on May 21 — instead, Deported to El Salvador

  After coming to the U.S. as children, and living in the country for nine years, brothers Jose, 20, and Josue Lopez, 19, were detained during a routine immigration check-in and deported to El Salvador.  Read the Spanish version here. As Documented reports, “Jose and Josue had lived in the U.S. for nine years after migrating from...

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• DHS Issues New Guidance on Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan

  Following Judge Edward Chen’s preliminary injunction blocking the termination of TPS status for beneficiaries from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan, the DHS has issued guidance regarding its compliance with that Order. TPS status for beneficiaries from the four countries will continue so...

• DHS Announces End to TPS for El Salvador

  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that because the conditions in El Salvador no longer support its designation for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the designation set to expire on March 9, 2018, will terminate in 18 months.  TPS allows qualifying persons inside the United...

• Temporary Protected Status Extended to 2020 for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan

  TPS employment authorization has been extended automatically until January 2, 2020, for beneficiaries from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan. In October 2018, a preliminary injunction was issued in Ramos v. Nielsen, preventing implementation of the Administration’s decision to terminate TPS...

• DHS Further Extends El Salvadoran TPS Work Authorization

  Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it will terminate the temporary protected status (TPS) program for nationals of El Salvador on September 9, 2019.  Employment authorization documents (EADs) held by qualifying individuals that expired on March 9, 2018, were ...

• California Court Temporarily Enjoins Administration from Ending Temporary Protected Status; Other TPS Lawsuits Proceed

  On October 3, 2018, California U.S. District Judge Edward Chen granted a preliminary injunction in the case of Ramos v. Nielsen, preventing the Department of Homeland Security from terminating Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador (scheduled to end on 9/9/19), Haiti (7/22/19), Nicaragua (1/5/19...

• DHS Extends TPS for El Salvador

  DHS announced today that it is extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvadoran nationals who already hold TPS....

• Filling out the Form I-9 for TPS beneficiaries: Work Permits extended for El Salvadorians

  By Dawn Lurie and Catherine Risoleo On May 30, 2013, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvadorians for an additional 18 months beginning September 10, 2013, and ending March 9, 2015. What does this mean for employers? For companies whose...

• Employer Update: DHS Extends Temporary Protected Status and Work Authorization for El Salvador, Haiti, Sudan, and Nicaragua

  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on March 1, 2019, an extension of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for qualifying individuals from El Salvador, Haiti, Sudan, and Nicaragua. DHS also announced a nine-month automatic extension of these TPS beneficiaries’ Employment...

• Fifth Circuit Grants and Then Withdraws Mandamus, But New York Convention Removal By Non-Defendant Still Improper

  The Fifth Circuit’s decisions in In re Chrystal Power Co. Ltd, No. 11-40115 (5th Cir. 21 March 2011), on rehearing (16 May 2011), address whether mandamus lies for a District Court order erroneously permitting removal of a case to federal court under the New York Convention, as codified in 9 U.S.C. ...

• DHS Extends TPS for El Salvador

  DHS announced that it is extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of El Salvador who already hold TPS.  TPS allows qualifying individuals to remain and work lawfully in the United States until conditions in their home countries improve.  The new extension allows qualifying...