Mr. Russo has practiced law for more than 33 years. He has engaged in a broad general civil practice, but has specialized in immigration, citizenship, and removal/deportation law. Mr. Russo was a Naturalization Examiner and a staff attorney of the legacy United States Immigration and Naturalization Service at El Paso, Texas, from 1980 through 1983. He has represented the University of New Mexico as immigration counsel with respect to some of their faculty members and researchers.