January 2017

On January 25, 2017, President Donald Trump signed 2 Executive Orders concerning immigration into effect. While there is a plethora of nuanced analysis to be done concerning the orders, the long and short of it is he has announced that it is the priority of the United States to: build a wall, build more detention facilities, […]

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) shared a letter with me today, signed by nearly 900 organizations urging President Elect Donald Trump to not end the existing protection for so-called DREAMers under DACA.  You can read a  full copy of the letter here: [pdf-embedder url=”http://jessemadamslaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2017-01-18_daca_organizational_sign-on_letter_v2.pdf”] As a reminder, Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) […]