Posted by Asher Ben-dashan | Mar 30, 2026 |
Sarah Bloom, who recently became litigation director of Mass Deportation Defense and Rubin | Pomerleau's newest attorney, spoke to reporters last week about the switch from her roll as acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island.
"I am working on the other side of cases that I used to...
Posted by Asher Ben-dashan | Mar 26, 2026 |
Boston - Sara Miron Bloom, former Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island, joins Rubin | Pomerleau as of-counsel and will manage federal litigation. Attorney Bloom will separately serve as the litigation director of the new nonprofit Mass D...
Posted by Asher Ben-dashan | Mar 23, 2026 |
Attorney Pomerleau was quoted in a shocking recent article from The New Bedford Light.
“You have to feel like the system isn't rigged against you one way or the other, and those letters are very troubling,” said Attorney Pomerleau to reporter Grace Ferguson. The article goes into detail about ...
Posted by Asher Ben-dashan | Feb 09, 2026 |
With schoolbooks in her bag, she waited to board a flight at Boston Logan Airport on November 20, 2025. She wanted to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving but never imagined what would happen next. When it was her turn to board, Any was told her boarding pass did not work and was referred to customer service. Soon after, she was surrounded by federal agents who shackled and detained her...
Posted by Asher Ben-dashan | Feb 05, 2026 |
On August 11, 2025, Jemmy, a lawful permanent resident, mother of four, and community member of 30+ years, arrived at Boston Logan Airport after a family vacation. She never made it home...
Posted by Asher Ben-dashan | Feb 02, 2026 |
The case, with an eye-catching headline, made national news. Ferreira is the former fiancée of Karoline Leavitt's brother. She was arrested by ICE in Revere, Massachusetts while on her way to pick up her son from school in New Hampshire.
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Apr 30, 2021 |
Follow this link to the Opinions of the Court on the US Supreme Court website:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-863_6jgm.pdf
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Mar 10, 2021 |
Read the decision here:
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Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Dec 08, 2020 |
With airports still closed in his native Honduras, a Manchester father of three has gained a reprieve from his deportation, which had been scheduled for Wednesday, his lawyer said.
Boston immigration lawyer Jeffrey Rubin said he advised his client, Eleazar Lopez Ayala, not to show up Wed...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Nov 30, 2020 |
n nearly indisputable likelihood, President Trump will leave office on Jan. 20.
That could very well be six weeks too late for Eleazar Lopez Ayala. In the worst-case scenario, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will deport the 43-year-old father of four to his native Honduras nine days ...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Nov 05, 2018 |
By Maria Gabriella Pezzo and Roberto Daza Nov 1, 2018
Hundreds of people stood in line outside immigration courts in cities across the country on Halloween for what appeared to be a trick: the date on their notices said October 31, 2018, but the immigration courts did not know they were coming.
O...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Oct 22, 2018 |
By: Kerry Kavanaugh
BOSTON – People who came to the United States without documentation as children and have been here ever since are commonly referred to as “Dreamers,” based on never-passed proposals in Congress called the DREAM Act that would have provided similar protections for young immigra...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Oct 18, 2018 |
Reade Levinson, Kristina Cooke
(Reuters) – Liliana Barrios was working in a California bakery in July and facing possible deportation when she got a call from her immigration attorney with some good news.
FILE PHOTO: Liliana Barrios poses for a photo at her place of employment in Redwood City, C...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Oct 15, 2018 |
About 25 people gathered at Wheelock Park in Keene Sunday afternoon to celebrate the release of Eleazar Lopez Ayala, an undocumented Honduran immigrant living in Manchester who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the threat of deportation for nine months.
Lopez Ayala ca...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Aug 16, 2018 |
BOSTON (CBS) – Almost everyone in this country admits that our current immigration system is broken. But whether our reforms should be based on compassion or pragmatism is another story. Tonight Dan is joined by two immigration attorneys, Marisa DeFranco and Jeff Rubin, and they will debate how t...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Jul 26, 2018 |
By Andrew R. Arthur on July 20, 2018
The Supreme Court issued a decision last month (Pereira v. Sessions) that could have potentially devastating consequences for removal proceedings, both presently pending and completed.
At issue in that case was whether an alien who had been served a notice to ...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Jul 17, 2018 |
“On June 21, 2018, our firm won the Supreme Court decision in Pereira v. Sessions which will benefit many thousands of persons who are in removal/deportation proceedings, who have been ordered to leave the US or who have already been deported.”
More articles regarding this case:
1. New Supreme Co...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Jun 27, 2018 |
A Brazilian native who arrived on Martha's Vineyard in 2000 on a tourist visa but never left is at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case that will clarify a clause in the federal immigration law concerning deportation.
The nation's highest court agreed on Jan. 12 to consider a case involving We...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Jun 27, 2018 |
By Pat Murphy
BridgeTower Media Newswires
BOSTON, MA – The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to use the plight of a Martha's Vineyard man facing removal to his native Brazil to determine a key aspect of federal immigration law.
Wescley Fonseca Pereira entered the United States in June 2000 as a no...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Jun 13, 2018 |
A federal judge in Boston on Monday invoked the Declaration of Independence in a formal order to release two Brazilian nationals who had entered the United States illegally.
“This country was born with a declaration of universal human rights,” Judge Mark Wolf wrote to begin his 62-page opinion, “...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Apr 17, 2018 |
The administration says an executive amnesty for illegal immigrants already present in the U.S. is imminent. In fact, it may already be underway.
Part of the plan the president is expected to issue would defer deportations for the illegal-immigrant parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent res...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Apr 17, 2018 |
By Arianna MacNeill Staff Writer Feb 8, 2018
Fabiano de Oliveira with his wife, Karah, and their son, on their wedding day in 2016. Fabiano, an
undocumented immigrant living in Beverly, has been held by immigration officials since Jan. 9.
Courtesy photo
BEVERLY — Congressman Seth Moulton i...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Apr 17, 2018 |
The law enforcement agency is completely out of control.
By Jacob Sugarman / AlterNet January 31, 2018, 10:20 AM GMT
If there was a unifying theme of Donald Trump's disjointed, sporadically incoherent State of the Union, it was that law enforcement officials and military officers are America's mo...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Apr 17, 2018 |
Boston Magazine: The DREAM Act: The Thing Is, I'm Undocumented
This is Oumou Troure. She's an all-American girl who grew up in Boston and loves the Celtics, playing the saxophone, and window-shopping on Newbury Street. She's also one of the 65,000 kids in the U.S. who graduate high school each ye...
Posted by Todd Pomerleau | Apr 17, 2018 |
Six months after Secure Communities was activated in Massachusetts, an exclusive FOX Undercover investigation finds that half of the immigrants identified and deported because of the controversial federal program weren't convicted of crimes but were targeted because of immigration problems. Attor...