AILA Mid-South Conference

Phelps Nashville senior counsel Bruce Buchanan will serve as a panelist at the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Mid-South Conference taking place in New Orleans on Nov. 13-14, 2026. The session is entitled, “The Compliance Holy Trinity Under the New Enforcement Architecture: Understanding Coordinated Enforcement by FDNS, DOL, and ICE.” Emily C. Brown of Elevate Justice is a co-speaker.

The panel will discuss increased coordination among U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Attendees will learn how agencies are coordinating investigations, where compliance vulnerabilities most commonly arise, and how to build corporate immigration programs.