US Deportation Publications
06 May 2013
Author: Deportation Lawyer Alena Shautsova
ICE detention is usually occurs when a non-citizen is suspected to be removable from the US. Often, ICE (Immigration Custom Enforcement) places a hold on individual who is in State detention facilities, but an undocumented person can be also apprehended at the airport, or a bus station.
An immigration de ...
03 May 2013
Author: Deportation Lawyer Alena Shautsova
Immigrants who commit an aggravated felony are subject to deportation under the
Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) whether they have legal status and are
productive or are illegally present in the United States.
The L.A. Times recently reported that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled seven to two in the ...
03 April 2013
Author: Deportation Lawyer Alena Shautsova
When facing deportation, it helps to know what the legal process involves and also to have a competent immigration lawyer to help defend your rights.
Despite the fact that deportation is a civil or administrative procedure it bears similarities to the criminal justice process for arrest and booking. When ...
27 March 2013
Author: Deportation Attorney Alena Shautsova
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DOH) has stated that state officials in individual states can make their own determinations about issuing immigrants driver's licenses. Traditionally, states have had authority over making their own laws and regulations regarding driver's licenses.
The Deferred ...
15 March 2013
Author: Deportation Lawyer Alena Shautsova
Demand for Information Disclosure about Detainees Released under ICE's Sequestration Budget Cut
As difficult as it has been for Congress to agree on many immigration issues, you can expect further controversy over ICE's release of immigration detainees based on the forced federal budget cut called seques ...
06 March 2013
Author: Deportation Attorney Alena Shautsova
When you face criminal charges, authorities must inform you that you have the right to remain silent and that anything you say can be held against you in a court of law. They must tell you about your right to a lawyer and that if you cannot afford an attorney, the court will appoint counsel. However, wh ...
23 February 2013
Author: Deportation Lawyer Alena Shautsova
Deportation has separated children from their families even when the children are U.S. citizens. In July of 2012, U.S. Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard introduced an immigration bill called The Help Separated Families Act, H.R. 6128 to deal with this problem. The number of U.S. citizen children placed ...
15 February 2013
Author: Deportation Attorney Alena Shautsova
Judge Allows Case to Go Forward for ICE Agents Suing the Department of Homeland Security
In August, 2012, Fox News reported that 10 federal ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents and officials sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Mor ...
08 January 2013
Author: New York Deportation Attorney
Many times a person ends up in the Immigration Court because of State or Federal charges submitted against him/her or because of the State or Federal conviction.
It happens because nowadays every jail and court has an ICE representative in it, and this person quickly scans and analyzes the records of every de ...
07 December 2012
Author: US Deportation Lawyer Alena Shautsova
I receive frequent inquiries from non US citizens (people who are in the US on F1 or B1 visa; or those with a green card but no citizenship) who ask me the same question: if they were charged with a shoplifting charge, do they have to prove their innocent to avoid deportation?
First, a person accused ...