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
Originally from The Philadelphia Inquirer Fabian Flores Alameda is not yet 3, too young to comprehend the lethality of the cancer that pummels his small body or the nature of the crisis that confronts his immigrant parents. He has multiple lesions in his skull. A plaster cast envelops his weakened left leg, which fractured as...Read More
Paul Frame describes his marriage to Jose “Ivan” Nuñez Martinez, 37, as yin and yang, opposites attracting. Frame is 15 years older and talks eagerly, while he says Nuñez is soft-spoken and laid back. And while Frame grew up in rural Chester County, helping with his parents’ cattle auction business, Nuñez fled his home in...Read More
Ahmed Weisi, born in Iraq and an Austrian citizen, has been a U.S. legal permanent resident (green card holder) since 1987. He has been married to Joan Pierson Weisi, a U.S. citizen, for 25 years. Joan was born and raised in New Jersey. The couple has a 21-year-old son, Marc, a junior and member of...Read More
Ahmed Weisi and his wife, Joan, at home in Whitehouse Station, N.J. Weisi, 59, has been a legal resident of the United States since 1987 and held an Austrian passport until recently. He has worked with the armed services in Iraq. Between deployments he comes home to his 200-year-old house in woodsy Whitehouse Station for...Read More
