Legal Issues

In December 2018, a federal judge strongly condemned the Trump administration’s most obvious attempt to undermine asylum protections for survivors of domestic violence. A June ruling by then Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a case involving a woman whose initials respond to AB tried to impose a broad ban on asylum claims based on complaints of […]

One of the most important moments in the legal process of immigrants in the United States is the final interview with the adjudicators of the Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), one of the steps that causes the most anxiety due to the fear of a denial. Almost all applications for immigrant benefits require this dreaded […]

The Government has asked the European Commission to take more account of the unemployment in Spain and the efforts that this country has made to control immigration from Africa. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, José Manuel García-Margallo, defended this Tuesday that Spain welcomes “only those immigrants” to whom it can offer “a decent […]

INTRODUCTION In 2006, the so-called war against drug trafficking began in Mexico, and in 2007, the country ranked as one of the main sources of asylum requests to Canada. In 2009, asylum claims reached record numbers, and that year Canada imposed a visa on Mexicans on the grounds that it took advantage of the Canadian refuge […]