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John Sandweg leads the Cross-Border Risks team focusing on complex international challenges involving issues related to cross-border business, immigration, and national security.
As the leader of the Cross-Border Risks team, I focus on complex national security, immigration, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) compliance matters. I also assist with international criminal matters and independent compliance reviews for individuals and companies in the U.S. and abroad. In this capacity, I advise individuals, businesses, governments, and political leaders on how best to achieve their most important objectives.
I tap into my years of experience in leadership positions with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and DHS to provide my clients with a unique perspective and strategic advice to ensure compliance with cross-border laws and regulations. I also draw on this experience to help individuals and companies to achieve cross-border investment objectives and overcome barriers to market access.
In my role as the Acting Director of ICE, I led approximately 20,000 employees in every state and 47 countries in the agency's mission to enhance public safety and border security through the enforcement of federal border control, customs, trade, and immigration laws. I prioritized ICE’s intellectual property enforcement and cybersecurity efforts and worked to improve statistical transparency regarding immigration enforcement.
As the Acting General Counsel of DHS, I served as the chief legal officer for the Department, advising the Secretary and the Department’s senior leadership on all significant legal, policy, and operational issues. Prior to this role, I served as counselor where I provided strategic advice and counsel on operational and policy direction and was a principal architect of the DHS’s immigration, border security, and law enforcement policy.
This article covers New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ indictment and security clearances. Washington, DC Government Investigations & White-Collar Defense partners John Sandweg and Joe Maher are quoted in the coverage discussing factors that will likely be considered in determining whether Adams’ security clearances should be revoked or suspended due to the allegations.
John Sandweg, leader of NP’s Cross-Border Risks team, joined this broadcast segment to discuss President Biden’s anticipated executive order to partially shut down asylum processing along the US-Mexico border and how the executive order could make a significant difference in bringing more order to the border.
This article featuring an interview with Julian Rudolph, whose father murdered his mother in 2016, covers an ongoing dispute related to insurance policy proceeds and other assets seized by the Justice Department. Chicago partner Chris Hotaling and Washington DC partner John Sandweg, both of the Government Investigations & White-Collar Defense practice, are mentioned for representing Julian and his sister, AnaBianca, in seeking to recover proceeds and assets.
Washington, DC Government Investigations & White-Collar Defense partner John Sandweg is quoted in this article, which profiles client Anna Sorokin. John says the team remains optimistic that the Board of Immigration Appeals will agree that Sorokin’s home confinement sentence is unnecessary and that a social media ban infringes on her right to free speech.
Washington, DC Government Investigations & White-Collar Defense partner John Sandweg, leader of the Cross-Border Risks team, is quoted in this article covering recent developments at the U.S.-Mexico border following the expiration of pandemic-era asylum restrictions, known as Title 42.
This article highlights the arrival of Washington DC Government Investigations and White Collar Defense partner John Sandweg, a former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
John comes to NP after leading his own boutique firm, Frontier Solutions. He joins NP along with five team members: counsel Rachel Winkler, associate Catherine Ingram Hunstad, legal assistant Tracey Ford, and investigative directors Jerry Robinette and Miguel Unzueta. John and his five colleagues will spearhead our firm’s new Cross-Border Risks team.
This article also quotes Washington DC Government Investigations and White Collar Defense partner Adam Tarosky on current trends in False Claims Act prosecutions.
District of Columbia
Arizona State University, B.A.
Arizona State University School of Law, J.D.
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