Immigration

Effective December 2018, new amendments to the Criminal Code of Canada will increase the maximum punishment for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) or Driving While Impaired/Intoxicated (DWI) to a term of imprisonment for 10 years. This increase in potential maximum punishment escalates the crime of DUI/DWI to an offense of […]

By Don Thompson, AP SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed the federal government’s claim that U.S. law trumps two California laws intended to protect immigrants who are in the country illegally, affirming his ruling last week that California was within its rights to pass two of its […]

By Courtney Weaver, Financial Times It started at Corso’s, an Ohio landscaping and gardening company, located near the Lake Erie shore. On June 5, beginning at 7am, 200 officials from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies descended on the company’s two locations, wielding guns and arresting 114 […]

In its decision dated June 26, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the third version of President Trump’s Travel Ban, which was originally announced on September 24, 2017, via a Presidential Proclamation. The full name of the proclamation is “Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted […]