Originally from The Philadelphia Inquirer Attorney Audrey Allen in her Conshohocken law office. Allen has helped lead the fight to enable undocumented families with sick children to be allowed to stay in the country so the kids can get medical treatment. The Trump administration ended, and then reinstate, a program called “deferred action,” which had...Read More

Originally published on HuffPost ICE agents arrested the undocumented man at a mandatory meeting with immigration to obtain a visa. The American Civil Liberties Union is fighting to end the monthslong detention of an undocumented gay man by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Pennsylvania. On Tuesday, the ACLU of Pennsylvania filed a legal complaint in...Read More

Originally published at MsMagazine.com U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on September 19, 2019 it was reinstating the “medical” deferred action program. Yet the outcome in deferred action cases across the country continue to raise concerns. Since the reinstatement, USCIS has received 458 initial deferred action requests—with 43 granted, 90 denied, and the rest administratively...Read More

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — In a rare policy reversal, the Trump Administration announced it will reinstate a program granting a temporary reprieve from deporting immigrants facing life-threatening medical conditions. This news offers some relief for a local family with two boys who have special needs, but they are not out of the woods yet. Velveth Roman...Read More

An undocumented South Jersey couple who had been ordered to leave the United States — with or without their cancer-stricken 8-year-old daughter — has been granted permission to stay so the child can continue to receive lifesaving treatment in Philadelphia. It’s a victory in a wider battle between parents of desperately sick children and the...Read More

In August, the Trump administration informed Maria Perez and Josue Hernandez that they had 33 days to get out of the country — with or without their cancer-stricken, 8-year-old daughter, Jonayra. Two weeks later, the ground shifted again: They were told the federal government would examine their case, potentially allowing them to stay in the...Read More

At age 5, Kevin Marín doesn’t speak. He needs help to eat, hearing aids, and support from orthotic devices to help with walking. Besides being severely autistic, Kevin suffers from a rare disorder called agenesis of corpus callosum, in which the fibers that connect the two hemispheres of the brain are either missing or only...Read More

From morning to night, 8-year-old Jannet needs her mother, Zenaida Bautista, to give her care and attention. Bautista constantly works with her — taking her on walks, massaging her legs and prompting her to do exercises with her right hand, which is weaker than her left.  When Jannet was younger, she would only grab her...Read More

Originally published by WBUR.org It’s been a year since federal immigration authorities re-started what’s known as medical deferred action after quietly trying to eliminate it without any public notice. Medical deferrals allow severely ill people who don’t have legal status in the U.S. — and who can’t access adequate health care in their home countries...Read More

Originally published on The American Constitution Society We come to this issue as mothers and immigration attorneys with more than thirty-five years of experience in the field and intimate knowledge of a policy known as deferred action. Deferred action is a kind of prosecutorial discretion once housed in the Immigration and Naturalization Service and now...Read More