Our Los Angeles and San Juan Capistrano ICE detention and bonds attorneys will protect your rights if you are detained or arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Every year, we help hundreds of workers and families who are facing deportation charges. We commonly obtain last-minute stays of deportation / removal for clients detained by ICE, and assist in obtaining bond orders for release from custody. By familiarizing yourself with the information below, you can be prepared if you are stopped, detained, or arrested by ICE.
In light of Donald Trump’s new immigration policies, our immigration attorneys at Hill & Piibe want you to know your rights, so you can protect yourself and your family. This information will tell you how to prepare for a possible ICE raid or arrest, and what to do if you are detained. Please also check our blog, our newsletter, and our Facebook page for updates and additional information.
Keep these in your wallet, give them to friends, family and co-workers. They contain advice on how to prepare, and how to respond if you are the subject of an ICE raid/arrest.
Keep these in your wallet, hand them out to family, friends and co-workers. Give this card to the arresting officer so you can remain silent about your immigration status.
You do not have to let any police into your home without a warrant signed by a judge—even if they just want to “ask questions.”
Carry the law firm’s business card with you, and write your Alien Number (“A-number”) on it if you have one.
Give the law firm’s business cards to your family/support network in case they need to call us to help you– and provide them with your Alien Number (“A-number”) if you have one.
Clear up your criminal record—have Hill & Piibe be involved in this, because criminal-immigration law is extremely complex and you don’t want to waste your money getting useless expungements.
Prepare a legal document to authorize someone else to care for your children if you are arrested; you also may want a document giving someone else control over your finances if you are arrested.
Do not associate with people or situations that could cause you to be arrested, including persons with deportation orders against them or criminal records, and stay away from ICE raid sites, etc.
Employers, family members and friends want to know how to help someone they care about if that person is detained. Here’s what happens, and what can be done to help:
Act quickly and have us get involved right away to determine how we can help—some people may be slated for immediate removal and need fast intervention.
We can locate your person in the system, and get information about plans and timeline for possible removal/deportation.
We can request a Credible Fear Interview to stop removal due to legitimate fear of persecution/harm in the home country.
We can file a motion to reopen and erase an old removal / deportation order if there are supporting grounds.
Who’s at risk? Right now, anyone without lawful status in the U.S., but especially those with old deportation orders and criminal records.
ICE is ramping up its ranks and its presence—we hear more and more reports of local targets and raids.
In some cases, a person may be freed from a detention facility on bail. Our immigration lawyers will attend the bond hearing to ask the judge to allow for their release. We can help you find a bondsman if you cannot pay the amount of the bond.
If bond is denied, your immigration court hearings will be in the detention facility and we will represent you at those hearings. In many cases, people are detained because they have a problem with a current or past criminal offense. In addition to handling your immigration case, we can also defend you in a criminal case, including vacating a criminal record.
While detained, you have a right to an attorney, but not a free attorney. You have a right to a fair hearing, and you have a right to appeal.
As your immigration attorney we will protect your rights. We have an attorney in immigration court every day of the week helping people fight deportation proceedings or defending people with criminal charges that could hurt their chances to immigrate. Contact us to schedule an appointment.
Katherine Heigl says she doesn’t believe in love at first sight and insists that she was attracted to husband Josh Kelley because of the pheromones at play.
The New Year’s Eve actress thinks strong feelings grow over time but she accepts you can tell if you like someone as soon as you meet.
“I don’t believe in love at first sight. I think loves grows as you get to know the person. But definitely I believe in chemistry. You can be attracted to somebody and instantly feel something you’ve never felt before,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.
“I swear it’s a pheromones thing. There is something about Josh that is so uniquely attractive and sexy to me. And he wasn’t my usual type at all. I went for moody and mysterious guys, usually actors. Josh is so different from any man I know,” she added.
Tamil Nadu CM writes to PM on construction of reservoir across Cauvery | india news | Hindustan Times
Chief minister EK Palaniswami told Modi in a letter that the Karnataka government “has decided to implement Rs 5,912 crore Mekedatu Multipurpose (drinking and power) Project across the river Cauvery, which involves building a balancing reservoir with a capacity of 66 TMC ft”.
The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday protested against Karnataka’s “unilateral action” of constructing a reservoir across river Cauvery at Mekedatu and sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention in the matter.
Citing media reports, chief minister EK Palaniswami told Modi in a letter that the Karnataka government “has decided to implement Rs 5,912 crore Mekedatu Multipurpose (drinking and power) Project across the river Cauvery, which involves building a balancing reservoir with a capacity of 66 TMC ft.”
“Further, Karnataka has proposed to approach the Central Water Commission and Supervisory Committee of the Supreme Court and Union Ministry of Environment for getting required clearances,” he said.
Palaniswami recalled Karnataka and Kerala filing civil appeals in the Supreme Court against the 2007 final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, even as Tamil Nadu had also filed a Special Leave petition on certain aspects of the final order of the Tribunal.
“Even as hearing is underway in these appeals, Tamil Nadu filed Interlocutory Applications in the apex court against the Karnataka government from proceeding with the Hydro-electric Projects,” he said.
Last year, the Centre had informed Tamil Nadu that Karnataka had been advised to share their plans for Mekedatu and other projects with the co-basin states as required under the Tribunal order and to bring them on board before taking up their Detailed Project Report/Construction, he pointed out.
Further, Karnataka had also assured Tamil Nadu “that it has no plans to proceed with the construction of the project without first informing the Supreme Court,” he said.
“The unilateral action of the Government of Karnataka to construct a balancing reservoir across the river Cauvery near Mekedatu without obtaining the prior concurrence of the co-basin states and in violation of the order of the Tribunal will be detrimental to the interests of people of Tamil Nadu,” the chief minister said.
"It's been a journey from 'why should we' to 'why not' for consumers," Tapia, who has 65% world share in development and open source solutions, said.
The acceptance of open source is most visible in the banking and financial services sector in India. Conventionally, the robustness of a platform can be judged by whether or not enterprises are deploying it to handle transaction-based mission critical processes. If that be the litmus, the fact that four out of the five insurance companies in India and banks like Canara Bank, Allahabad Bank, Vijaya Bank have joined the Linux bandwagon, is the proof of the pudding for the Indian enterprises. UTI Bank is using the platform for its call centre operations. In a nutshell, it's the heart of enterprises that are sitting on open source now and Linux is not just one of those things sitting at the periphery.
After having established a foothold in the enterprise space, what would your focus for the Indian market be for the coming year?
There are two more things that need to be ironed out for proliferation of open source in India -- one is to tap the desktop space and the other is localisation. We already offer five languages and will be offering eight more by November this year. Simultaneously, we are creating a desktop ecosystem where the desktop can seamlessly port to a printer, scanner, browser or biometric devices.
We are pretty much ready for the desktop environment in the enterprise and education space. LIC already has 25,000 Linux desktops today. Education is a special focus as the next generation of users are going to come from this sector. We do not want to offer this market on a platter to some proprietary platform with some 350 million kids becoming a captive audience for it. The next generation should have the option of choosing between open source and proprietary systems. For the small and home office segment we have some work to do so that they can easily port their applications on to the open source platform. We are also working with application developers and content developers to raise the level of business for the smaller enterprises.
We would like to believe that we have driven the market in a specific direction where the total cost of ownership for the end user had to be brought down by competition. But they still have a long way to go in providing the consumer an environment where the platform can be played around with ease to customise it according to the customer preferences.
The biggest task at hand is to get the developer community in India interested in Linux. We have to keep them in the loop to do well not just domestically but to crack the global marketplace. Also given that people are ready to adopt Linux, we are under pressure to scale out in terms of development of newer applications, have a sales and marketing, and above all, a support infrastructure in place for the big time rollout. Training is a big area of focus and we are working with partners to constantly train and update them.
On the iconic composer’s 74th birth anniversary, singer Vishal Dadlani talks about the influence Rahul Dev Burman has had on his career and the entire film industry.
Rahul Dev Burman has been an inspiration to many musicians. And even though the iconic composer passed away 19 years ago (in 1994), he is still remembered fondly by many budding artistes.
Composer-singer Vishal Dadlani is one such fan, who calls ‘Pancham da’ the man who inspired him to strive and take up music as a career option.
Speaking to us on RD Burman’s 74th birth anniversary (on June 27), Vishal recalls, “He was more of an inventor, who assimilated sounds from all around the world. By experimenting with music, he opened doors not only for his contemporaries, but also for the coming generations. Every musician is just trying to get to where he left us.”
Incidentally, over the years, Vishal and his composer-partner Shekhar Ravjiani have had the opportunity to work on two songs originally composed by the musical legend —Humein tumse pyar kitna (for Jhankaar Beats; 2003) and the title track of Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008).
“But we didn’t mess with the original songs. Our versions are a tribute to RD Burman, and we made sure that he and the song’s lyricists got their due credit,” he says, adding that Pancham da was a man much ahead of his time.
“His songs are not nostalgic; they are as modern as today’s songs. You will discover something new every time you listen to them, even if you’ve heard them a hundred times before. You can’t escape his influence,” he says.
In an important judgement, the Supreme Court on February 16 reduced Tamil Nadu’s share of the Cauvery waters and increased Karnataka’s allotment. Karnataka has been directed to release 177.25 tmcft of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu as against 192 tmcft awarded by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal in 2007. The judgement also clarified that Karnataka will now have an enhanced share of 14.75 tmcft water per year , making it 284.75TMCft now. (HT Correspondent)