Attorney Felony Immigration 
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 14, 2023
Congress extended the Immigration and Nationality Act, which regulates immigration into the United States, in 1988 to give immigration enforcement authorities, now the Department of Homeland Security, the power to automatically deport noncitizens convicted of an “aggravated felony” at the state or federal level.
JURIST
JANUARY 3, 2024
The law creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. It also empowers state magistrate judges to hear immigration cases and issue removal orders, in addition to giving law enforcement the responsibility of ensuring compliance with the law. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.
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SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 9, 2023
Here’s the Monday morning read: Is Encouraging Unauthorized Immigration Free Speech or a Felony? Fight over scope of attorney-client privilege reaches US Supreme Court (Joe Miller, Financial Times). To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com. Adam Liptak, The New York Times).
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Immigrant rights advocates have called on San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan to file charges against Border Patrol agents involved in the 2010 beating death of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas based on evidence that Critical Incident Investigative Teams (CIIT) within U.S. Border Patrol sectors along the U.S.-Mexico
Constitutional Law Reporter
DECEMBER 16, 2022
A jury found Dubin guilty of one charge of healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Supreme Court granted certiorari on November 22, 2022. The justices agreed to consider “whether a person commits aggravated identity theft any time he mentions or otherwise recites someone else’s name while committing a predicate offense.”.
The Crime Report
APRIL 19, 2022
Defense attorneys would have protested if they knew what was going on, but county and court officials kept the arrangement quiet among themselves. They complained to an immigration and employment attorney about long hours and poor living conditions. He had access to defense materials generally unavailable to prosecutors.
At the Lectern
AUGUST 19, 2021
Menetrez, a former Horvitz & Levy attorney, wrote the article before becoming a judge. The opinion affirmed the denial of a motion to vacate a 1989 conviction based on the defendant’s claim his defense counsel failed to advise him about the adverse immigration consequences of entering a guilty plea.
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