re: Do you know any lawyers who do immigration?

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Turns out illegals hire him to try to keep them from being deported.

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That's not the way the profession originally came about. Many people use them to get green cards or naturalized citizenship the correct way. They help those people navigate the system and have a better shot at getting approved.

An associate of mine hired one to get a green card for his Ukrainian wife, whom he met on Tinder. They divorced like 2 years later, after she decided she wanted to party more. Not sure if she's still here.

I was looking through some older posts and saw what you wrote back in January. I get why you’re skeptical, but this whole law is an absolute maze.

My wife and I went through hell with the paperwork, and it wasn’t about anything illegal. We simply got stuck in some absurd NVC bureaucracy.

If we hadn’t found Kriezelman Burton & Associates to help untangle the paperwork, we probably still wouldn’t have peace of mind now. Sometimes it’s not about politics, it’s just about finding someone who actually knows how to move things through this broken system.

I am taking a law school this summer called Select Topics in Immigration. I have no plans to go into Immigration Law, but it is a class that will satisfy my writing requirement and seems like an interesting subject these days.

i see billboard ads. one has the last name Rozas, I think

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Similar to personal injury lawyers - they rarely go to court.

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Personal injury lawyers may not go to jury trial very often, but they are in court a lot compared to most practice areas. Multiple motion hearings every week, if not every day. Many of them serious dispositive motions.

PI lawyers also probably actually try more jury cases than anyone except the criminal bar. And there is a decent overlap among those practices anyway--those are the two areas where you will typically find the really talented trial lawyers.

It's funny to see people who apparently know so little about the practice of law make comments like this. Because I'm sure you respect the lawyer who shook your hand at your real estate closing and hasn't even seen a courtroom in person since they were sworn into the bar.

I've known three lawyers who had an immigration practice. One worked entirely for one large company and did all their foreign worker visa stuff. He was my immigration law professor in law school.

The other two were part of bigger firms who wanted that as part of their book. One was an older white guy who spoke fluent Spanish and the other was from Iran.

The Spanish speaker was a true believer who loved the work. He was also a HELL of a criminal defense lawyer--got a jury nullification on a felon in possession charge that would have been a life sentence as a third strike, all because of very strategic voir dire. He taught ESL classes to immigrants at night and was a deacon at a multinational Catholic church.

The Iranian hated it but it was what she was useful at, due to language, so that's how she made money for the firm. She hated most of her clients and also hated going to court. Said African clients were by far the worst--according to her, blatantly lying or exaggerating about important shite is just the norm in many cultures there, which made her job very hard. It's assumed or expected there that people are full of crap, but obviously a problem when someone is under oath or needs to tell their lawyer the truth in the American legal system.

She was a really good negotiator but a lousy litigator. Got too flustered in court. Yes, many (not all) immigration attorneys go to court a lot.

Honestly, if I were someone that loved sitting outside the courtroom negotiating all morning and shooting the shite with the fed gov attorney waiting to see if my case got called, then making ad hoc arguments off the cuff at trial and not relying on discovery, I would love immigration court. It's basically criminal practice on steroids, as far as what you actually do in court (though the transactional side is totally different). There are almost no rules of evidence or procedure, at least compared to federal district court or most state courts of record. But that actually terrifies me as an attorney.

It's a horrible bureaucratic system with all sorts of technical BS that postpones so many cases that actually need to be heard, but now for PR reasons expedites things that should be much more deliberate.

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All immigration should be stopped, period. No immigration, no visitor visas, no 'tourist' visas, no 'business' visas, certainly no work visas. No foreigners period. Unless you buy a US gold card visas.

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Yeah well that's retarded

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All immigration should be stopped, period. No immigration, no visitor visas, no 'tourist' visas, no 'business' visas, certainly no work visas. No foreigners period. Unless you buy a US gold card visas.

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Hell yeah brother! Everyone should just stay in their hometown too, traveling is for tranny lib gay boys.

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We have so many Illegal Immigrants here already why should we need any immigration at this point? Make it make sense.

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I would love a simulation of what the US economy looks like at 10, 25, and 50 years from now if we did an actual mass deportation and ended all immigration. Even better if you don't make any other structural changes to our current set up.

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I'll ask you again - what are the millions of low IQ, unskilled, uneducated Illegal Immigrants that are already here going to do? Who is going to feed and house them? What will be the purpose of having them here when the above mentioned things take over and educated Americans are out of work? Make it make sense.

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You are conflating two separate things.

First, the idea behind legal immigration is that it is to bring over people with skills that contribute to the US economy. The idea of "no immigration" would mean we are a country with a birth rate below replacement that is shrinking. Look at places like China and South Korea to see how that is working out for them.

Secondly, the idea of AI, automation, and advanced robotics replacing low, unskilled workers is a lot broader than just illegal immigrants. You can deport all of them, but that doesn't rectify the millions of Americans who fit the same description.

That's my point earlier in this thread that our laws and policies are extremely outdated, and not prepared for the future the US and world is heading towards. That applies beyond just our immigration laws as well.