Immigration Law

AudioLearn Law School Course Outlines presents Immigration Law. Written by authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this outline covers what is typically taught in a law school immigration law class.

Professor Vy Nguyen obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science from the University of Houston. She then obtained her law degree (with Honors)from Thurgood Marshall School of Law. During law school, she served as a judicial clerk for the Texas First Court of Appeals. Today, Ms. Nguyen is the managing attorney of Nguyen Offices, PLLC which has law offices in Houston and Austin, Texas. For the last 15 years, her growing law practice handles cases involving family law, criminal defense and immigration law matters. Since 2017, Ms. Nguyen serves as the clinical law professor at ...

2025!!! There are few things more intimidating than immigration law… but when you have the right guidance, you can navigate it with confidence and steer yourself toward a bright future. A record 46.1 million immigrants were recorded as living in the USA in the 2022 census—and that just goes to show you that your dream is possible. You dream of a free and exciting future for your family. Perhaps you have work opportunities stretching out before you, or maybe you’re here to reunite with relatives. Perhaps it’s your education you’re pursuing, or maybe you’re seeking safety and ...

NEWLY REVISED EDITION 2019! -- This comprehensive updated guide gives the reader a good, easy-to-understand overview of U.S. immigration law, written in plain English, including travel considerations, visas, green cards, paths to permanent legal residency, how to obtain U.S. citizenship, legal strategies and pitfalls, removal and deportation, government agencies and more.

Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native Kenya, led a boycott to protest his government's treatment of his fellow farmers. He was subsequently arrested and taken into the forest to be executed. This audiobook, told by Kenney and his lawyer Philip G. Schrag from Kenney's own perspective, tells of his near-murder, imprisonment, and torture in Kenya.

The history of the United States has been shaped by immigration. Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner provide a sweeping historical narrative told through the lives and words of the quite ordinary people who did nothing less than make the nation.

As a practicing immigration attorney for many years, I have had to help many clients solve some of the most common problems simply because they had no knowledge of the immigration laws of the United States. Whether you were born in the US, are currently in the US, or even are planning to come to America, this book is for you.

Who controls American immigration policy? The biggest immigration controversies of the last decade have all involved policies produced by the President - policies such as President Obama protecting Dreamers from deportation and President Trump banning immigrants from several majority-Muslim nations. While critics of these policies have been separated by a vast ideological chasm, their broadsides have embodied the same widely shared belief: that Congress, not the President, ought to dictate who may come to the United States and who will be forced to leave. This belief is a myth.

Every day, ICE is arresting hundreds of illegal immigrants with a criminal record. They didn’t just come here. They were sent here. Our debates about immigration revolve around what happens with immigrants once they arrive. We need to start talking about who is sending them and why. For...

In recent years, the American workforce has seen an influx of international laborers hoping to expand their opportunities or build a new life in the land of the free. Immigration law can be tricky to navigate, especially when facing different terms and processes. This book helps professionals in human resources know how to face the challenges of applying for different types of visas, figuring out the right path to permanent residency, and eventually applying for citizenship.

This first edition of this book published and distributed by Textbook Media Press under a non-exclusive distribution agreement was intended as both a supplemental "mini-textbook" to accompany primary textbooks on business law, the legal environment of business and other law-related college courses as these generally do not cover immigration law or immigration compliance. In this second, updated edition which is aimed primarily at a reference text and primer on immigration law for a general audience, end of chapter questions for further study are retained for faculty who may wish to use the ...

A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American in this “impassioned and well-reported case for change” (New York Times). In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are...

Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States, typically framed as a battle between anti-immigrant conservatives and pro-immigrant liberals. Yet surprisingly, almost no one on either side of this issue seems to understand the true impact that immigrants have on any aspect of American life. In The Truth About Immigration, Wharton School professor Zeke Hernandez provides an accessible, apolitical, and evidence-based look at the effects of immigration on our local communities and our nation.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. Though some moved on to Philadelphia, Chicago, and other points west, many of these new citizens settled in New York City, especially in Manhattan's teeming tenements....

Conquer the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officer Exam delivers a fast, focused review of the essential knowledge needed for success as a CBP Officer. Designed for the Under 90 Minutes series, this concise and audiobook-friendly guide explores the full scope of border protection—from immigration and customs law to counterterrorism, inspection, and ethical enforcement. You’ll gain a clear understanding of how federal law enforcement operates at the nation’s front line. The book explains how CBP protects both national security and lawful trade through professional judgment, ...

A National Bestseller A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Lunch, Christian Science Monitor, and Counterpunch One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks...

Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border rule that displace, immobilize, criminalize, exploit, and expel migrants and refugees. With her keen ability to connect the dots, Harsha Walia demonstrates how borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial, capitalist, and racist nationalist rule.

In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from World War I to 1970.

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)—reveals long-hidden truths with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding of the universe. Luis “Lue” Elizondo is a...

Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of Javier, the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city, is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.