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By Mark Curriden of The Texas Lawbook, Houston Chronicle A federal lawsuit by Texas officials earlier this year seeking to order the end of the federal immigration program called the Deferred Act for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, will have “immediate, irreparable injury” to Texas businesses and cost the state’s economy […]
By Michelle Casady, Law 360 A federal judge in Houston on Wednesday afternoon sentenced to prison eight individuals for their roles in a multimillion-dollar call center scam that was based in India and defrauded U.S. residents out of at least $8.9 million. U.S. District Judge David Hittner, during a series […]
By John Council, Texas Lawyer A Laredo lawyer was arrested last week by the U.S. Border Patrol on charges of immigrant smuggling after he allegedly picked up a pair of Hondurans abandoned by their guide along a South Texas highway. According to a criminal complaint affidavit obtained by The San Antonio […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice secured the denaturalization of two Somalis on Wednesday — one convicted of engaging in sexual contact with a minor, and the other fictitiously created a family to secure a Diversity Immigrant Visa, which concluded a concurrent case against three additional individuals. These actions […]