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This week's Immigration Lawyers Toolbox® Podcast with John Q. Khosravi, Esq. covers the latest immigration law updates, USCIS trends, and practice tips. Recorded live every Monday, this series keeps attorneys sharp and informed.

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1. DHS snubs Argentina delegation in "embarrassing" delay of visa deal
2. F-1 changes: Students can't get into basic college courses, dragging out time in school - Los Angeles Times
3. Judge blocks Trump administration's ending of legal protections for 1.1 million Venezuelans and Haitians
4. USCIS Policy Memorandum September 4, 2025 PM-602-0190 SUBJECT: Reaffirming Guidance on Public Charge Inadmissibility Determinations
5. Immigration policing

• a. USCIS to Add Special Agents with New Law Enforcement Authorities
• b. ICE's 287(g) Program Explodes to 900 Agreements Under Trump - See the data and support rigorous nonpartisan scholarship that doesn't take partisan money.
• c. Supreme Court allows immigration agents to resume 'roving patrols' in LA, siding with Trump
• d. Indefinite detention for EQI - Matter of Jonathan Javier YAJURE HURTADO
• e. US judge blocks Trump from using troops to fight crime in California 6. Immigration Court
• a. An Immigration Judge generally should not continue an individual hearing based on a respondent's speculative assertion that he or she may be eligible for a new form of relief from removal not previously raised. 29 I&N Dec. 195 (BIA 2025)
• I. DOJ Swears In 3 New Board Of Immigration Appeals Members https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1412501/dl?inlineSheila Gallow https://tracreports.org/immigration/reports/judgereports/00775ATD/index.html
• II. Marcos Gemoets (was catholic charities/private practice -superlawyers
• b. Kathleen Volkert
• c. Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges 7.

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