Recent Posts in January, 2019

• USPS Pays Settlement of $4.9 Million to Grieving Family

  Jan 31, 2019
  Earlier this month, a lawsuit in U.S. District Court was resolved when the U.S. Postal Service settled with a family who lost their two-year-old in a ...
  Posted By The Law Offices of Lloyd E. Bennett, Esq., P.C.
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• NYS Court Officers Helped ICE Make Arrests at Courthouses

  Jan 30, 2019
  Traditionally, courthouses used to be one of a short list of locations where ICE would avoid making arrests. The rationale for leaving courthouses ...
  Posted By The Law Offices of Lloyd E. Bennett, Esq., P.C.
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• The Invisible Wall & How It Was Quietly Built Over the Last Two Years

  Jan 25, 2019
  We've reported before that the Trump Administration has made life more difficult for all immigrants, not just the undocumented. Even legal residents ...
  Posted By The Law Offices of Lloyd E. Bennett, Esq., P.C.
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• Federal Judge Blocks Request for Citizenship Question in 2020 Census

  Jan 21, 2019
  Last week, a federal judge blocked the Commerce Department from putting a question about citizenship on the 2020 census. The decision will ripple ...
  Posted By The Law Offices of Lloyd E. Bennett, Esq., P.C.
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• Up to 100,000 Immigration Hearings Could Be Canceled by Next Week

  Jan 18, 2019
  From December 24 to January 11, the appointments for nearly 43,000 immigration court hearings came and went without action. The government shutdown ...
  Posted By The Law Offices of Lloyd E. Bennett, Esq., P.C.
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• The Most Overstayed Visas Are from Canada, Not Mexico

  Jan 16, 2019
  Despite years of hostile rhetoric regarding Mexican immigration, figures from the Department of Homeland Security showed that Canada is the biggest ...
  Posted By The Law Offices of Lloyd E. Bennett, Esq., P.C.
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• Five-Week Shutdown Created Years-Long Backlog in Immigration Courts

  Jan 3, 2019
  This past Monday, immigration courts reopened for the first time in December—and clerks were greeted by a flood of legal filings and asylum-seekers. ...
  Posted By The Law Offices of Lloyd E. Bennett, Esq., P.C.
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