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What is Secure Communities?

Posted on 09/19/13

Connecticut Immigration Attorney James A. Welcome explains ICE’s Secure Communities deportation program and the Connecticut TRUST Act Recently, the Connecticut legislature unanimously passed the TRUST act, which Governor Malloy is expected to sign into law, limiting the state’s participation in the Secure Communities program. Secure Communities is a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation


Are You Getting Bad Legal Advice about Your Immigration Case?

Posted on 09/18/13

Connecticut Immigration Attorney James A. Welcome discusses the bad advice some non-experts give to immigration clients and why it is harmful to immigration cases. This past April, two men and their team were sentenced to federal prison for operating a document mill in Baltimore that sold thousands of fake identification documents, including green cards and