Currently, for people that are detained, if you have applied for a Bond Hearing and been denied based on lack of jurisdiction, I have been working with the U.S. Federal Defender's offices to help file Habeas Corpus claims to order the release of detained individuals. Consult with me today to see if you qualify.
Police, whether they work for Immigration and Customs or for a local law enforcement agency, bear the burden of proving the justification for all stops. To state the obvious, we don’t walk around with our passports glued to our foreheads. If an officer were to make a street stop only because he had a hunch that someone lacked immigration papers, then that would be the textbook definition of an unlawful stop. It would give the police unbridled discretion to stop people without reasonable suspicion.
Police can’t stop someone just because they think that person is suspicious. They cannot justify a stop because someone looked like they were from another country or lacked lawful status. That is absurd and illegal. They have to point to specific facts that justify restricting someone’s liberty, and that burden of proof matters, because it allows people to question the government’s justification for limiting their freedom, and ultimately, to hold the government accountable for civil rights violations.
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REBECCA CHEAVES, 02-11-2026
USCIS and Immigration Court Petitions and Applications, Records Checks, FBI Background History Checks, DACA, U-Visas, VAWA, Special Immigrant Juveniles, Unaccompanied Minors, Adjustment of Status, Petitions (family based), Naturalization, Temporary Protected Status, Advance Parole, and other types of Parole, Waivers both in the USA and stateside Waivers, Fiancee Visas, Tourist Visas, Asylum and Withholding of Removal/ Convention Against Torture cases. Category-specific Employment Permits. USCIS Interviews.
Release on Parole and/or Bond, Cancellation of Removal (non-LPR 42b and LPR 42a), Asylum (both affirmative and defensive), Unaccompanied Minor Applications, Withholding of Removal and/or Convention Against Torture, Adjustment of Status, and Voluntary Departure. Waivers. Litigation in the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Preparation and submission of Consulate Applications, specializing in pre-waivers before departing the United States, and preventing post-consulate waivers.