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Immigration News

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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Obama Won’t Use Administrative Action to Push Immigration

September 23, 2010

Source: The Hill
http://thehill.com/
By Michael O’Brien
President Obama suggested that he would not pursue reforms to the immigration system through regulations or other administrative policies.
The president said it was important for immigration reform to go through Congress, lest opponents of comprehensive reform use regulations as a political opportunity.
“You know, it is a very difficult thing to do [...]

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DREAM Act Delayed in the Senate

September 21, 2010

Source: Immigration Policy Center
Today, the Senate voted 56 to 43 against proceeding to the Defense Authorization Act. This procedural vote, which basically followed party lines, ends consideration of critical social issues that affect the military and were to be offered as amendments to the bill. Among the amendments not considered is the DREAM Act, an [...]

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Arizona Immigration Law SB 1070 Back to Court!

September 20, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Just when we thought we were done with Arizona immigration law SB 1070, we’re pulled right back in.
According to reports released around a half-hour ago, a federal appeals court says it will, in fact, hear arguments on Nov. 1 in Arizona Gov. [...]

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Gen. Colin Powell – A Sane Republican Voice on Immigration

September 20, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Amid all the hardline rhetoric on the right and the Tea Party extremism to the right of the right on the subject of immigration, along comes a wonderfully sane Republican voice in the wilderness in the form of General Colin Powell, a [...]

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Hardball Politics/Political Theater/Creepy Anti-Immigration Ad

September 20, 2010

A creepy new scare-tactic ad from Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle targets opposition Sen. Harry Reid’s position on immigration, calling Reid “the best friend an illegal alien ever had.” Way to demonize Reid, way to demonize the undocumented, way to go for the lowest common denominator.

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Brief Filed Seeking Greater Safeguards in Removal Proceedings for Immigrants w/ Mental Disabilities

September 16, 2010

Earlier this week, the American Immigration Council’s Legal Action Center (LAC), the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center filed an amicus brief with the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) urging the government to protect the rights of immigrants whose mental disabilities prevent them from participating meaningfully in their own removal hearings. [...]

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DREAM Act Coming to the Senate Floor

September 15, 2010

Source: Immigration Policy Center
DREAM Act Coming to the Senate Floor: Senator Reid to Attach Act to Defense Authorization Bill
Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he would attach the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act to the Department of Defense authorization bill expected to come before the Senate as early as [...]

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What Tea Party’s Strong Showing Means to Immigration Reform

September 15, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
With the Tea Party’s shocking, albeit disturbing, showing in yesterday’s primary, producing two major upsets – Christine O’Donnell over veteran Rep. Michael Castle for Delaware’s Republican Senate slot and Buffalo developer Carl Paladino, a newbie to the political scene, over former congressman [...]

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Advocacy Alert! DREAM Act/One Nation Working Together

September 15, 2010

Sources: Michael Mandel & Tanya Goldsmith, AILA-NY Advocacy/Media Committee Co-Chairs, and the NY Immigration Coalition
1) DREAM Act
Senate Majority Leader Reid announced today that he will include the DREAM Act Click here to read AILA’s blog on it. as part of the defense authorization bill which could be voted on in the Senate as early as [...]

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Sheriff Joe’s Immigration Roundup Last Night

September 14, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Some people get their jollies listening to Lady Gaga, or laying dead to the world on the beach, or going to a good flick starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Not Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, our least favorite character in the immigration debate.
The self-proclaimed America’s [...]

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Poll: Immigration Issues Hurting Pres. Obama

September 13, 2010

According to the latest Quinnipiac University national poll on a variety of immigration issues:
1) By a 60%-to-28% margin, people disapproved of the way Pres. Obama is handling illegal immigration.
2) Democrats favored granting citizenship by 62% to 31%, while Republicans and independents oppose it by 67% to 27% and 51% to 42%, respectively.
3) People had a [...]

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The Anti-Immigration Hardliners Lose Another One!

September 10, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Just over a month after an Arizona judge beautifully – and justifiably – cut the legs out from under SB 1070, a federal appeals court yesterday stopped Hazelton, Pa., from its equally creepy illegal immigration crackdown, saying Hazelton may not punish employers [...]

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Survey: Immigration Judges More Receptive to Asylum Requests

September 10, 2010

We plucked this very interesting factoid from yesterday’s New York Law Journal: “Asylum seekers’ rate of success in the nation’s immigration courts is the highest it has been in 25 years and one significant factor is increased legal representation, new research has found. In fiscal year 1986, immigration judges denied almost nine out of [...]

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Repeal of Birthright Rule Would Boost Illegal Population

September 9, 2010

Source: Wall Street Journal
By Miriam Jordan
A denial of birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants would end up increasing the size of the nation’s illegal population, according to a new study released Wednesday.
The idea of ending birthright citizenship has become popular among politicians and activists seeking to curb the number of illegal immigrants. But [...]

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Sheriff Joe Considers Presidential Run in 2012!

September 9, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
The news of one of the most loathsome characters in the Immigration Debate, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, considering a run at the presidency in 2012 nearly made us spill our morning coffee smack in our lap, if not upchuck our first couple [...]

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NYT: Immigration Crackdown Steps Into the Kitchen

September 8, 2010

Source: New York Times
By Sarah Kershaw
FOR a man facing the possibility of up to 30 years in prison, almost $4 million in fines and the government seizure of his small French restaurant here, Michel Malecot has an unusually jovial and serene air.
During lunch recently, he walked around the French Gourmet, his 45-seat restaurant, bakery [...]

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Marrying a US Citizen and Filing for Daughter & Her Child

September 8, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
Question: I am married to a U.S. citizen who is filing for me. I have a daughter in Jamaica who is 16 and just gave birth to a baby boy. She is not married. My husband is filing for her as well, [...]

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Director Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Takes Cut @ Immigration

September 6, 2010

Source: The Huffington Post
By Miles Mogulescu
Entertainment attorney, writer, and political activist
Robert Rodriguez–like his good buddy and frequent collaborator Quentin Tarentino–sure loves his pulp fiction fiction and his B-movies. In a both an homage to, and hilarious send-up of, ’70’s B movies, there are more limbs severed and blood splattered in “Machete” than in the best [...]

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