Dear Texas AILA Chapter members, A liaison meeting with San Antonio ICE/ERO/OPLA will be held on August 2, 2022, from 10:30a.m. – 11:30a.m. The meeting will be held virtually via TEAMS. To attend, please register so that you may receive the TEAMS link. Also, please submit any questions by no later than July 15, 2022.
Recent News
San Antonio Field Office Update on COVID-19 Mitigation–Return to Mask from liaison Amy Thomas
Update from San Antonio Field Office Director Tina Almond: “USCIS has been following the CDC COVID-19 Community Levels Dashboard since March 2022 to determine how we operate with mitigation measures in our offices. Today the CDC updated Bexar County to High Risk which means that all employees and visitors are now required to wear masks […]
Biden v. Texas
The Supreme Court released Biden v. Texas as the final opinion of the October 2021 Term. The majority opinion was written by chief Justice Roberts, joined by Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Kavanaugh joined, Kavanaugh concurred. The holding: The Government’s recission of MPP did NOT violate the immigration and nationality act and Mayorkas memo terminating the program was legal and constitutes the final agency action under the […]
Practice Alert: District Court Stay Expires and Mayorkas Enforcement Priorities May Not Be Relied Upon
AILA Doc. No. 22062752 | Dated June 27, 2022 On June 10, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued an order vacating Secretary Mayorkas’s September 30, 2021, memorandum Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law (the Mayorkas memo). The decision was administratively stayed through June 24, 2022, to allow the Fifth Circuit the chance […]
Duarte v. Mayorkas “Mandate Issued” from Chapter Member – Raed Gonzalez Olivieri
The mandate has been issued! Duarte is now officially the law of the land (5th circuit only). Under MNTNA, TPS who traveled on parole were admitted and not paroled! So, all can adjust regardless of the USCIS memo about travel after 8/2022!!!