Blog Posts in September, 2011
Posted on Sep 27, 2011 By admin
We would like to honor a man whose best-known book altered the public's perceptions on the role of immigration in the arc of American history and who a few days ago died at the age of 95. Pulitzer ...
Continue reading "The Death of A Legend" »
Posted on Sep 27, 2011 By admin
Florida Representative Luis Garcia Jr. (D-Miami), has called on state Rep. Carlos Lopez-Cantera (R-Miami), to schedule a Miami-Dade legislative delegation meeting to consider taking a unified position ...
Continue reading "FL Rep. Calls for Delegation on Immigration Before Next Session" »
Posted on Sep 27, 2011 By admin
The Miami-Dade County Commission approved on Tuesday a resolution urging the Florida Legislature to not pass any immigration legislation in 2012. Sponsored by Commissioner Audrey Edmonson, the ...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2011 By admin
Image via Wikipedia A report issued by the National Immigration Law Center has found that 160,000 immigrants have been deported without ever facing a judge over the course of seven years. The report ...
Continue reading "Report Finds Immigrants Being Deported Without A Hearing" »
Posted on Sep 21, 2011 By admin
Hundreds of people have called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to halt the deportation of 21-year-old Jennifer Lopez, a DREAM Act-eligible woman from Palm Beach, Florida who was placed in ...
Continue reading "Students Working for Immigrant Rights" »
Posted on Sep 21, 2011 By admin
Image via Wikipedia Federal officials have revealed that they are placing new security measures on immigrants who overstay their visas. A Homeland Security agent says they are running overstayed-visa ...
Continue reading "Immigrant Visa Screening for Security Purposes" »
Posted on Sep 20, 2011 By admin
Image via Wikipedia As you may already be aware, the President signed into law the Budget Control Act of 2011, which prevented the U.S. government from defaulting on its debt and requires deep cuts ...
Continue reading "How the 2011 Budget will Impact Immigrant and Refugee Programs" »
Posted on Sep 20, 2011 By admin
Image by Getty Images via @daylife The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has expanded its E-Verify self-check service to another 16 state. At the same time, the program became ...
Continue reading "Employment Eligibility Self-Check Expands" »
Posted on Sep 15, 2011 By admin
Image via Wikipedia A new U.S. visa rule has upset many U.S. citizens who are expatriates, while also leading lawyers to foresee a significant lengthening in the visa processing times for ...
Continue reading "U.S. Citizens Upset with New Visa Rule" »
Posted on Sep 15, 2011 By admin
There is still hope for immigrant residents of Alabama. After the state legislature passed the harshest, most irrational and far-reaching immigration law in the nation's history to date, U.S. District ...
Continue reading "Alabama Immigration Law Halted Until Judge Makes Final Ruling on its Constitutionality" »
Posted on Sep 15, 2011 By admin
Image via Wikipedia The Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Departments have initiated a review of about 300,000 deportation cases currently before the immigration courts. Under the new ...
Continue reading "The New Policy Directive in Effect" »
Posted on Sep 10, 2011 By admin
Image via Wikipedia Imagine you have been a green card holder living in the United States legally for many years. You plan a cruise to the Bahamas and enjoy a weeks vacation with your family. Upon ...
Continue reading "Returning Lawful Permanent Residents Treated as "Arriving Aliens"" »
Posted on Sep 9, 2011 By admin
Image via Wikipedia More than a year after SB 1070 was initially taken to federal court, the immigration restrictionists behind Arizona's misguided immigration law have brought their case to the ...
Continue reading "The Arizona Controversy Continues" »
Posted on Sep 9, 2011 By admin
As comprehensive immigration reform remains unlikely in the current political climate while an impasse presides over Congress, a coalition of organizations have formed a report with proposed reforms ...
Continue reading "Organizations Provide Ideas for Immigration Reform" »
Posted on Sep 9, 2011 By admin
Civil rights attorneys in San Francisco have sued federal authorities demanding an end to the alleged practice of shackling all adult detainees-including the elderly and disabled-during immigration ...
Continue reading "Lawyers Sue Federal Authorities over Shackling Detained Immigrants" »
Posted on Sep 9, 2011 By admin
Image via Wikipedia In a case recently reviewed, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) madethe decision that even though immigrants must still be informed of their-albeit significantly more limited ...
Continue reading "BIA Limits Immigrants Rights Upon Being Detained" »
Posted on Sep 9, 2011 By admin
Image via Wikipedia As we previously informed, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it would provide prosecutorial discretion so as to provide relief for low priority ...
Continue reading "Prosecutorial Discretion Impact on Same-Sex Bi-National Couples" »
Posted on Sep 9, 2011 By admin
Image via Wikipedia Due to the fairly recent announcement made by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that it would henceforth focus its efforts on "high priority" immigration cases- ...
Continue reading "Detained While Leaving the U.S." »
Posted on Sep 9, 2011 By admin
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Congratulations are in order, for the Obama administration has announced that it would suspend deportation proceedings against many illegal immigrants who pose no ...
Continue reading "New Immigration Policy" »