American Immigration Lawyers Association

Yeah, absolutely.

So including myself, every single lawyer at my law firm is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, AILA.

And AILA is an incredible resource for anyone who's a credible immigration attorney because they send out weekly newsletters and all these updates that are really, really hard to keep track of just on a personal basis.

With all the changes that are constantly happening, they have practice pointers go out to explain how to navigate all these different changes and how they apply to our clients.

Ayla has been super, super helpful with kind of keeping track of everything and knowing what to do, what not to do, how to navigate even complicated conversations with your clients when it comes to all of these different changes.

Immigration officials did not issue a public announcement about the new policy, which took effect September 15th.

Greg Chen, senior director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said he feared the policy is a new tool to rush deportations and to steamroll immigrants' rights.

Number five.

Do you need another COVID shot this year? We simplified the confusing guidance.

Anyway, I'm gonna move on from her.

The one thing that Minnesota Takes said about it this morning, they said that in, uh, according to Kate Angustis, the counsel for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, she said that in most cases, any fraud in an, uh, application to enter the United States would be a civil issue, but there could be removal proceedings initiated against someone even if the alleged fraud occurred decades ago.

A complicating factor, however, is that Omar's father filled out the immigration form that appears to be under question when the lawmaker was a minor, and yet the birth dates don't, don't jive, and it appeared like she was actually a majority of age, 18 to 19 or whatever, when she first came to this country.

So there's a lot of game playing going on in this whole scenario.

I mean, I think we're gonna have a lot of, um, extra resources at our disposal.

And my work with, um, the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the tech, uh, committee, uh, for th- several, innovation committee for several years is-

Mm-hmm

... was really like putting together and, and with the sm- uh, spotlight and, um, that we had at the tech summit the last few years, um, it, it was really trying to, um, put, to sort of highlight and encourage, uh, that collaboration between those who, who built these programs and the practitioners.

A very interesting one.

Today is an interview with Jeff Joseph, a well-renowned immigration lawyer, head of AILA, and he's had multiple lives when it comes to his immigration practice, had his own great firm and joined a large firm as a partner, and now he's with a new one, Manifest.

And I keep seeing them online, people joining them.

I see their marketing material and, and the AI that they use, and the fact that they're pro...

But I did want to mention something while we're talking about technology and keeping up to date with everything.

AILA has a fall conference coming up in Atlanta.

And honestly, I don't think I've ever been in a conference in Atlanta, so that'll be exciting.

But it's in October 15th to 16th.

So I'm super excited about that at the El Dorado Hotel and Spa.

And the information's on our alatexas.org website, alatexas.org.

But it soon will be on the AILA website as well.

But we're going to have a lot of great speakers.