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Immigration/Immigration Law

Chamber of Commerce of the United States v. Whiting

April 19, 2011

Haven’t heard of this case? You should have already if you follow immigration policy. I imagine that sometime this year you’ll be hearing about this case again as the U.S. Supreme Court decides on it.
This case challenges the Legal Arizona Workers Act, which requires businesses to verify workers’ documentation and [...]

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Arizona Immigration Law: Self-Determination…Not!

April 13, 2011

This in from our exclusive Associated Press immigration news feed:
PHOENIX (AP) – A federal appeals court on Monday refused to lift a stay blocking major parts of Arizona’s immigration law from taking effect and said the federal government is likely to be able to prove the controversial law is unconstitutional.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of [...]

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Spar & Bernstein Launches new Website Design

April 12, 2011

Well, after many months of work, we’re proud to let you know that we’ve just launched our newly redesigned site, www.4immigration.com and our new Spar & Bernstein Landing page at www.spar-bernstein.com!
While both sites offer a fresh new look for our firm, you’ll find the same great content about immigration that we’ve always freely provided to [...]

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Deportation, ICE & President Obama

April 4, 2011

“When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn’t working and we need to change it”, are the words [...]

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Immigration & the ‘Brain Waste’

March 28, 2011

How frustrating do you think it is for someone who has had years of specialized training & experience in their home country and find themselves in jobs well outside their expertise? It happens everyday here in the United States.
Most of us Americans think of the job market strictly in terms of the [...]

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Obama, Central American & Immigration

March 23, 2011

We know the importance of immigration reform in the context of how critical it is to our own economy, we often forget how our immigration policies affect other countries economies. For instance, with President Obama traveling through Central America recently, he noted this (as reported by the Associated Press):
“Obama promised a new partnership across [...]

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Italy on Immigration: Speak Our Language

March 14, 2011

I often hear people make the argument that the United States should require anyone who wants to enter the U.S. prove they can speak the English language. On the surface, that seems like a reasonable point of view…until you think about what it really means. What that requirement would do is put yet [...]

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Utah Passes It’s Own Immigration Reform

March 11, 2011

I wrote about this in my 3/8/11 blog post. Now, as reported recently by the Associated Press:
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers have approved an immigration package that includes an enforcement law reminiscent of Arizona’s but tempered with a guest worker program for illegal immigrants.
The immigration measures approved by both chambers Friday night [...]

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Georgia Immigration: The Land of the Peach is Not So Peachy

March 4, 2011

Like many states these days, Georgia is trying to do what our federal government is seemingly unable to do: develop and passed an immigration reform bill. So this week the Georgia House has passed their version of immigration reform and the bill now moves onto the Georgia Senate.
This really bugs me for more than [...]

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E-Verify Will Not Preserve Jobs for American Workers

March 3, 2011

With the advent of the federal electronic verification system, known as E-Verify, the feds are working hard to get every business using the system as a way to comply with immigration laws when hiring new employees. E-Verify is an idea that misses the mark on helping to solve the real issue here: immigration reform.
I [...]

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ICE Expands Crackdown on Illegal Hires

February 17, 2011

I was just reading today in the Walls Street Journal that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is requiring nearly 1,000 firms to turnover their employment records for an audit.
ICE is serious about this and according to the WSJ, has set up a new “employment compliance inspection center” to provide for a more [...]

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Arizona & Immigration: Just when you think you’ve heard it all

February 15, 2011

I just read an interesting post from the Associated Press on the latest legislative move coming out of Arizona. There is pending legislation that would effectively require hosipitals to “check on whether patients are in the country legally, causing outrage among medical professionals who fear becoming de facto immigration agents under the law”, noted [...]

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American Soldier on the Bumpy Road to Citizenship

February 11, 2011

When he was eight years old, Luis Lopez was brought to the United States by his parents who had tourist visas. His parents later fell out of legal status. After finishing high school, Luis applied and was accepted into the U.S. Army. He served 10 years, including several war tours in Afganistan [...]

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Get Your Immigration Questions Answered for FREE

February 3, 2011

Have an immigration question? You’ve come to the right place. Brad Bernstein will give you the opportunity to have your immigration questions answered LIVE on our BlogTalkRadio show! We have limited lines available, so make sure you call in early.
Date / Time: Thursday, 2/3/2011 3:00-3:45 PM Eastern Time
Link: www.blogtalkradio.com/sparbernstein
Call-in Number: (424) 222-5282

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Pew Study: Illegal Immigrant Population

February 2, 2011

Despite the bad economy and ICE under the Obama administration working overtime to deport as many unauthorized immigrants as possible, a new Pew Center study indicates that the overall population has remained steady.
“As of March 2010, 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States, virtually unchanged from a year earlier, according [...]

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Mississippi Senate Passes Arizona-based Immigration Bill

January 20, 2011

When Arizona decided in mid-2010 to take immigration policy and make it their own, there were many other states that echoed the same thought. Mississippi is now working to complete its own immigration policy, styled along the same lines as the Arizona law. Ignoring the fact that immigration is a national policy and [...]

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Myth: We Can Easily Change the Constitution and Eliminate Birthright Citizenship

January 12, 2011

There are a lot of myths and untruths circulating about birthright citizenship and the fourteenth amendment. I recently read a great mythbuster published by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (I’m a member) that I thought I’d share with you.
Myth: We can easily change the Constitution and eliminate birthright citizenship.
Fact: Wrong. The Fourteenth [...]

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Dream Act: Economic Benefits Galore

December 7, 2010

Someone recently asked me if there were economic benefits to passing the Dream Act. The answers is YES.
- The DREAM Act will contribute to our military’s recruitment efforts and readiness. Secretary of Defense Gates has written to DREAM Act sponsors citing the rich precedent of non-citizens serving in the U.S. military [...]

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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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