Newman Law Practice PLLC

08/06/2020

Photojournalist Bilal Jawich was at home on the outskirts of Beirut when an explosion, which has left at least 100 dead and thousands injured, rocked the Lebanese capital.

06/27/2020

The order, which cited the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, applies to children held in the nation’s three family detention centers for more than 20 days.

06/18/2020

The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s decision to cancel a program that provided legal protections and work authorizations to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.

06/17/2020

05/26/2020

Trained overseas, Cuban doctors treat fellow migrants on the U.S. border, which is effectively closed during the coronavirus outbreak. SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VID...

03/30/2020

Each of the 37,000 people currently detained by ICE are at severe risk of contracting COVID-19. We must immediately reduce the numbers of people in immigration detention, starting by releasing the most vulnerable to serious illness or death.

03/22/2020

A coalition of organizations led by the Southern Poverty Law Center is calling on Louisiana, Florida, and Mississippi to release as many people as possible, right now.

03/17/2020

"Across the country, defense attorneys are trying to determine how to best represent their clients as the coronavirus spreads. Visits to jails and prisons could now result in transmission of COVID-19 to an extremely vulnerable population, and lawyers also risk contracting it themselves." (King).

To prevent more people from being infected with COVID-19, defense attorneys are calling for courts to release people.

02/28/2020

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a block on the administration’s policy of forcing migrants seeking asylum to wait in Mexico while the cases play out.

02/18/2020

"The whole reason I went back to Venezuela was to get her because her life is worth more than mine and now she's alone in Mexico," Branly said.