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Spar & Bernstein President & Immigration Attorney Brad Bernstein

Chile: Where Immigration is Welcomed!

December 8, 2010

While we all wait for the results of a vote on the Dream Act this week (did you call or write your Congressional representative yet?), I thought this was an interesting and PROACTIVE approach to the economic side of immigration.
Chile, a nation not particularly known for economic development, created a nifty way to encourage innovative [...]

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Act Today to Get the Dream Act Passed!

November 30, 2010

In early November, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) promised to bring up key immigration-related legislation before the end of the year. It now appears that the DREAM Act is poised for a potential vote during the current lame duck session of Congress.
Although Congress was in recess last week, the groundwork has been laid for [...]

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287(g) Is An Immigration Mess

November 18, 2010

I want to bring to your attention yet another example of local immigration enforcement gone amok.
In 1996, Congress delegated the responsibility to enforce federal immigration regulations to local enforcement officials. Congress provided funding under a program noted officially as 287(g), which allows local enforcement to happen. Local juristictions can apply to [...]

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Act Before Immigration Fee’s Go Up on 11/23!!

November 12, 2010

Please remember that the USCIS will be increasing most fee’s related to immigration processing as of November 23, 2010. I reviewed the pricing changes and with a few exceptions, almost all of them are going up! When have you seen fee’s go down? Neither have I. So, like anything else these days, immigration processing fees [...]

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Immigration Link Now on BlogTalkRadio

November 11, 2010

It’s been my conviction for a long time now that the best client is an educated client. This is especially true in the area of immigration law. It is this conviction that brought about our ever popular immigration radio show on Link Up 93.5FM in New York that we started 14 years ago. [...]

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The Not So Good Result of the Election…

November 4, 2010

Now that the balance of power has been shifted once again, many are left wondering what the shift will really mean. From an immigration point of view, it could be kind of scary. Here’s why:
In the new Congress, Lamar Smith (R-TX), the current Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee will likely be [...]

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A Green Card Success Story

November 3, 2010

This clip is one of the most popular of almost 300 clips we have on our YouTube with over 31,000+ views. It’s worth showing to the many who follow this blog who may not have seen this yet.

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Who’s Defending Arizona’s Immigration Law?

November 1, 2010

As I have posted on this blog before, the Arizonia immigration law is bunk. Clearly, a state should never be in the business of setting up laws that are the domain of the federal government. Who would defend a law that clearly cannot be defended?
Answer: How about enough people to [...]

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Federal Deportation Program Expands

October 20, 2010

Have you heard about the Department of Homeland Security program for scanning local jails for illegal immigrants? If not, you certainly will be. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the state of Texas is the first border state to fully deploy this federal scanning program. The program, known as Secure Communities, [...]

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What Record Deportations Mean to Employers and Illegals

October 7, 2010

The Washington Post was reporting this morning that nearly 392,000 people have been deported from the U.S. during the 2010 fiscal year ending September 30th. That’s an astounding number that reflects the current focus of our country to locate and deport unauthorized immigrants. The Post noted that about half of that 392,000 deportations [...]

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Immigration Fee’s Increasing Soon

October 6, 2010

Most people I meet are not aware of the fact that the USCIS will be increasing most fee’s related to immigration processing as of November 23, 2010. I reviewed the pricing changes and with a few exceptions, almost all of them are going up! When have you seen fee’s go down? Neither [...]

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Geographic Immigration Distribution in the U.S.

September 30, 2010

I always enjoy Jay Leno when during his show he does his ‘man on the street’ routine. That’s where Leno and a camera crew go out into the streets and ask a basic question to see it the general public is aware. In the past, he’d ask ‘who’s the Vice-President of the U.S.?’ [...]

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Immigration & the Labor Market

September 28, 2010

I’m often asked if I think immigration has a positive or negative affect on the U.S. labor market. My answer is always the same: Positive! Immigration has always had a positive impact throughout U.S. history. More commonly today, you’ll hear many talking up idea that immigrants are ‘taking jobs way from a [...]

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Immigration Study Exposes Anti-Immigrant Cockroaches

September 2, 2010

By Brad Bernstein
President, The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Amid all the hysteria these days about the alarming number of illegal immigrants, the fiery rhetoric about how America’s border states are being overrun by Mexican drug dealers, the fingers of blame pointing squarely at immigrants for stealing jobs and ruining the economy, along comes this [...]

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Silence on Immigration Talk: Calm Before Storm?

August 30, 2010

By Brad Bernstein
President, The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Have you noticed something odd since last Tuesday’s primary, which voted back in Arizona Sen. John McCain while sending a clear message to, if not slapping upside the head Florida Attorney General and governor wannabe Bill McCollum?
It’s become, in the words of Simon and Garfunkel, [...]

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When Will the John McCain We Once Loved Return to Us?

August 24, 2010

By Brad Bernstein
President, The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
There was a time when we really loved, respected, and admired Sen. John McCain.
He was a shot-down Vietnam war hero who spent nearly six years within that torture chamber called the Hanoi Hilton, refusing a way out to continue suffering with his troops. He was a [...]

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What’s with the Visa Problems? Let Larry King Retire!

August 20, 2010

By Brad Bernstein
President, The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Ok, so this morning I’m reading the New York Post and I see that CNN is postponing Larry King ’s retirement from Larry King Live because supposed replacement Piers Morgan, the British journalist and “America’s Got Talent” judge, is “apparently having trouble obtaining a work [...]

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Brad Bernstein on Immigration Reform: Wait for the Lame Duck

August 18, 2010

By Brad Bernstein
President/Immigration Attorney, The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
If you’re waiting for any kind of immigration reform, as we all have for longer than we ever expected, you better be prepared to be patient for at least another few more months.
I’ve been convinced for quite a while that nothing, except maybe some sweet-sounding [...]

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Scapegoating Immigrants Nothing New

August 13, 2010

By Brad Bernstein
President, The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Right, reason, and a smart, Constitutionally-minded judge saved us from the national disgrace of SB 1070, knocked all the teeth out of a law that threatened to not only sanction the unseemliness of racial profiling, but turn Arizona into a paranoid “Where’s your papers?” police state. [...]

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Immigration Change: Admitted, Inspected, Adjusting Status

August 5, 2010

By Brad Bernstein
President/New York Immigration Attorney
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
The Board of Immigration Appeals made a dramatic, powerful, albeit unusual decision at the end of last month. All it did was change immigration law across the land, in all 50 states, making an important distinction between “admitted” and “inspected” and how it affects [...]

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