immigration

Aug 15, 2018

Sex offender stripped of US citizenship, will be deported

RALEIGH (AP) A North Carolina man who federal authorities say sexually abused his stepdaughter has been stripped of his United States citizenship and will be deported to Ghana. The News […]

Jul 26, 2018

Plea deal leads to detention of immigrant

RALEIGH (AP) Federal agents arrested an immigrant who is in the U.S. illegally after a North Carolina sheriff declined their request to keep the registered sex offender in custody, immigration […]

Jun 27, 2018

NC among states suing Trump administration over family separations

RALEIGH (AP) Seventeen states, including North Carolina, sued President Donald Trump’s administration June 26 in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families who have been separated at the […]

Apr 27, 2018

NC Liberians wait as protections against deportation end

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) Justin Miayen Woazeah Jr. was 5 years old when he left Liberia as a child of war. He remembers people killing each other in the street and hiding […]

Dec 13, 2017

Presumed waiver does not violate due process

After 16 years in America, an Argentinian “tourist” is being deported without a hearing after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that despite the absence of a […]

Mar 24, 2017

Fear and uncertainty: For immigration lawyers, Trump era sparks surge of nervous clients

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 […]

Dec 7, 2016

Domestic Relations – Immigration – Form I-964 – Support Obligation – Divorce – Gifts

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 […]

Oct 12, 2016

Want to move to Canada? Not so easy, attorneys say

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, […]

Jun 29, 2016

4th Circuit: Totality of circumstances determines ‘settled’

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 […]

Jun 28, 2016

Senate quarrels over enforcing state immigration law

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 […]

May 20, 2016

Federal attorneys’ conduct criticized in immigration case

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 […]

Mar 24, 2016

Rally planned for teen facing deportation to Honduras

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 […]