Legal documents spilled from the arms of attorney Charlene D’Cruz as she led a Honduran mother cradling a limp toddler across the Rio Grande bridge. The asylum-seeking mother needed to get her child, who had life-threatening sepsis, to a Brownsville ...

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When no Americans replied to her ads seeking a dance instructor, studio owner Chris Sabourin looked overseas. But she was stymied again by a federal tightening of visa application rules she and others contend is hampering the ballroom dance industry. ...

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When no Americans replied to her ads seeking a dance instructor, studio owner Chris Sabourin looked overseas. But she was stymied again by a federal tightening of visa application rules she and others contend is hampering the ballroom dance industry. ...

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Evita Tolu knows what her clients are going through when they ask for her help. That’s because she experienced many of the same processes 26 years ago that they’re working through now. Tolu came to the United States from her ...

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Petitioner, a Mexican national, applied for withholding of removal proceedings, arguing that his deportation would cause “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship” for his children, some of whom were U.S. citizens. The BIA disagreed; petitioner then filed his motion for reconsideration ...

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Petitioner requested cancellation of removal, alleging his children would suffer extreme hardship from his removal. An immigration judge concluded petitioner’s family would not suffer hardship greater than other families with a close family member deported. During the pendency of his ...

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  Where a petitioner from Guatemala sought review of the denial of her applications for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture, the petitioner could not establish eligibility for asylum, and the petition is denied because ...

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  Plaintiff and her two minor children, citizens of El Salvador, entered the United States of America without inspection. DHS initiated removal proceedings. Plaintiff conceded removability and applied for asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture. ...

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Petitioner petitioned for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissing petitioner’s appeal of a decision of an immigration judge, which denied petitioner withholding of removal. Where petitioner failed to show a clear probability that his life ...

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  Where petitioner challenged the reinstatement of a prior removal order against him, the judgment is affirmed because there was no basis for reversal. Petition denied. Alvarez-Ortiz v. Barr (MLW No. 72900/Case No. 18-1643 – 2 pages) (U.S. Court of ...

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  Where petitioner sought review of the denial of his motion to reconsider or remand a final order of removal, the petitioner was found to be removable based on his conviction for a controlled-substance offense, so review was precluded by ...

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