Jeremy McKinney

Biography

Jeremy McKinney, an immigration attorney from Greensboro, NC, was elected as the association’s Second Vice President for the 2019–2020 term. Mr. McKinney has lived and worked in Greensboro for over twenty years, having founded McKinney Immigration Law firm, with offices in Greensboro and Wilmington. He is a North Carolina Board Certified Immigration Law Specialist and is admitted to practice law in North Carolina, the Middle, Eastern, and Western District Courts of North Carolina, along with the Fourth, Seventh, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

He has proudly been an AILA member since 1997. During that time, Mr. McKinney has served various leadership roles including Treasurer, Secretary, Elected Director, Chair of AILA’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) liaison committees, and Chair of the AILA Carolinas Chapter.

Mr. McKinney graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1993 and later received his Juris Doctorate from Campbell University School of Law in 1996. He has previously taught Immigration Law at Elon University School of Law as an Adjunct Professor and served on the North Carolina State Bar’s Specialization Committee.

He and his wife, Cynthia Ligon McKinney, have been married 22 years, and are parents to Ethan, 18, and Sophia, 16. Mr. McKinney is active on Twitter; his handle is @McKJeremy.

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Expertise

Family, Business, General, litigation, Removal defense

Selected Recent Articles Quoting Mr. McKinney

• Newsday: Lawyers seek scrutiny of how Trump carries out travel ban (June 26, 2018)
• Talking Points Memo: Trump Says U.S. Should Expel Migrants Without Due Process (June 25, 2018)
• HuffPost: Trump Attacks Immigration Laws, Calls For Deportations Without Trials (June 25, 2018)
• Wall Street Journal: Thousands Cross the U.S. Border Seeking Asylum. Most Won’t Get It. (June 25, 2018)
• The Guardian: Lawyers 'not confident' family separations will end despite Trump order (June 22, 2018)
• Wall Street Journal: U.S. Immigration Courts, Long Crowded, Are Now Overwhelmed (May 23, 2018)
• HuffPost: Jeff Sessions Uses Exceptional Power Over Immigration Courts To Limit Judges’ Authority (May 18, 2018)
• Vox: Jeff Sessions is exerting unprecedented control over immigration courts — by ruling on cases himself (May 14, 2018)
• Bloomberg: Lawyers See Immigration Court as Trump ‘Deportation Machine’ (April 5, 2018)
• The Washington Post: Advocates say Sessions’s decision to toss rule on asylum hearings endangers thousands (March 8, 2018)
• Vice News: Trump's Deadline Just Passed and Young Immigrants Are Terrified (March 7, 2018)
• New York Times Article: What "Dreamers" Say About the Great Immigration Debate (January 10, 2018)
• International Business Times: Should The US Defend Undocumented People In Immigration Court? (October 4, 2017)
• NBC: Immigration: Crisis in the Courts (September 26, 2017)
• The Atlantic: What the Waiting List for Legal Residency Actually Looks Like (September 21, 2017)
• Mother Jones: Trump Says He's Taken "No Action" on DACA, But 700,000 Dreamers Now Can't Leave the Country (September 14, 2017)
• The Atlantic: Borrowed Time (September 11, 2017)
• TIME: Undocumented Immigrants May Get Less Time to Make Their Case (August 17, 2017)
• NBC: Trump's immigration crackdown straining courts, advocates say (July 24, 2017)
• The Atlantic What the Spike in Immigration Arrests Might Mean for Detention Centers (May 20, 2017)
• San Antonio Express News Judges no longer hearing cases at South Texas family detention centers (May 8, 2017)
• Associated Press Immigration judges to be sent to border detention centers (March 18, 2017)
• Vice Aggressive Immigration Raids Are Breaking Up Families and Scaring Longtime Residents (February 17, 2017)
• News & Record (North Carolina) For local immigrants, Trump policies divide and discriminate (January 27, 2017)

Selected Blog Posts by Mr. McKinney

• Think Immigration: Story of a Dreamer Sparks Generosity (December 28, 2017)
• Think Immigration: One Road to Immigration Law (July 14, 2017)

Selected Radio Appearances Featuring Mr. McKinney

• NPR: Trump Administration Moves To Reshape Who Qualifies For Asylum (March 12, 2018)
• WAMU Travel Ban To Take Partial Effect After Court Agrees To Hear Case (June 27, 2017)