It’s been more than four months since the presidential election, and immigration attorneys across the Carolinas, and the country, find their phones are still ringing off the hook. Litigation over President Donald Trump’s proposed immigration policies may have raised complicated ...

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Zhu v. Deng (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-409-16, 27 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) Appealed from Wake County District Court (Anna Worley, J.) N.C. App. Holding: When the plaintiff-husband’s parents signed immigration form I-864, they were agreeing to support plaintiff’s Chinese bride ...

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Every election season, you tend to hear the same refrain: “If such-and-such wins the election, I’m moving to Canada.” (Or Europe, etc.) But this year, for some reason or another, an unusually high number of people seem to be expressing ...

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Despite making off with her children and illegally crossing into the United States, a mother and her two children will not be deported after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held June 15 that the oldest son was “settled” ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers are moving forward with tougher penalties for cities and counties that do not follow state immigration law, despite objections from some senators who say that could give the attorney general unwarranted power to ...

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HOUSTON (AP) — Using a mix of scathing language and movie quotes, a federal judge in Texas who had blocked President Barack Obama’s immigration executive action ordered Thursday that Justice Department attorneys attend an ethics course, saying they misled him ...

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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Supporters of a North Carolina teen facing deportation to his native Honduras are holding a rally to call for his release from jail. The rally in support of 19-year-old Wildin Acosta will be held Thursday in Durham. ...

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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. congressman says the deportation of a North Carolina teen to Honduras has been stayed by federal immigration officials. Rep. G.K. Butterfield says the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued an order Sunday preventing ...

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By JOHN L. PINNIX March madness has a unique meaning for businesses trying to staff often hard to fill professional slots, for foreign nationals with advanced academic attainment who want to live and work in the U.S., and for their ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to an election-year review of President Barack Obama’s executive order to allow up to 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to “come out of the shadows” and work legally in ...

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