Posted on May 16, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
As we had informed our readers earlier, Florida's own United States Senator, Marco Rubio, is working on an alternative to the Dream Act. This version, which is presumed to be more in line with ...
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Posted on May 8, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
At approximately 9:40 a.m. on May 8th, 2012, Pozo Goldstein & Miranda's Maggie Arias and esteemed co-counsel, Benjamin Waxman , appeared before the seven justices at the Florida Supreme Court. ...
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Posted on May 3, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
The hearing on the Arizona immigration law is already underway with the Supreme Court hearing arguments on the most controversial provisions and already there is speculation that the justices may be ...
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Posted on May 1, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Immigrant-rights groups are jumpstarting the immigrant's movement for the presidential campaign by going door to door, making phone calls, and tweeting to encourage more than 8 million green-card ...
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Posted on Apr 30, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
United States Attorney General Eric Holder has had to use his powers under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to intervene with prohibitive new voting laws in Texas that would have required voters to show ...
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Posted on Apr 29, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
The Obama administration's top immigration official has said he wants to keep more foreign-born high-tech entrepreneurs in the U.S. but that to make it happen he needs those entrepreneurs to turn ...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
The debate over controlling illegal immigration has been prevalent throughout election cycles for decades. But now there is a more radical type of anti-immigrant movement that is gaining momentum, and ...
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Posted on Apr 27, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
It is no secret that the Republican presidential candidates are not fanatics of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, commonly known as the Dream Act. The bill that would ...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Many Latinos are critical of President Barack Obama for having caused an upsurge in undocumented immigrant deportations , believing that Obama has broken his campaign promise to pass immigration ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
In what is surely a landmark decision, the District Court of New Jersey granted habeas corpus and found that mandatory detention under the Immigration and Naturalization Act § 236(c) does not ...
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Posted on Apr 24, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Even though the DREAM Act has not passed, individual states are taking legislative measures to make it more affordable for their undocumented youth to go to college. Last week, the Colorado Senate ...
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Posted on Apr 23, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
There are countless people who after a lifetime of working hard and doing everything they could to perform at the best of their abilities, they are denied the ultimate recognition that their degrees ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
The original sponsors of Alabama's extreme anti-immigrant bill HB56 have acknowledged that the law is deeply flawed and are now drafting a new bill to modify some of the harsher provisions. Yet ...
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Posted on Apr 21, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
According to news reports, Mitt Romney has distanced himself from campaign manager Kris Kobach who is infamous for his anti-immigrant strategies and has hired Ed Gillespie instead. Kobach, the Kansas ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
Republican elected officials, including Florida's own U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, are working on a "conservative Republican alternative" to the DREAM Act, in an effort to reach out to ...
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Posted on Apr 18, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
With the presidential election approaching, a lot of attention has been focused on the Latino vote yet little attention has been given to the immigrant vote overall and even less to the growing bloc ...
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Posted on Apr 17, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
It is an undisputable fact that deportation has a particularly devastating impact on the families that are affected by it. When undocumented parents are deported, they face impossible decisions about ...
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Posted on Apr 17, 2012 By Florida Immigration Lawyer
The U.S.-Mexico border has for a long time been the center of heated controversy. Now, a human rights group has found that there are a plethora of human-rights abuses that have occurred there, from ...
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Posted on Apr 10, 2012 By Miami Immigration Attorney
We are pleased to announce the launch of our Miami Immigration Blog .
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Posted on Mar 7, 2012 By admin
Image via Wikipedia The newly released Department of Homeland Security 2013 budget includes overall cuts to the agency with the exception that it secures funding for the controversial immigration ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2012 By admin
Image via Wikipedia Mitt Romney, the preferred Republican candidate by many, is taking a very hard line on immigration even as the primaries heads towards states that are heavily populated by ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2012 By admin
The U.S. government promised interpreters and thousands of people who helped with the war effort in various areas of specialty that they would be the first in line for special visas to the United ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2012 By admin
After a string of laws that were aimed at restricting the rights of immigrants, some states are taking matters into their own hands to do the exact opposite. In California, a new law takes effect that ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2012 By admin
A plethora of new laws are set to take effect at the start of 2012 and many reflect the nation's concerns over immigration. Alabama, with the country's toughest immigration law, is enacting a key ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2012 By admin
The federal government's investor visa, which was created in 1990, gives foreigners the chance at attaining green cards if they invest $1 million to build a business in the United States that creates ...
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