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VP Joe Biden’s Fusion Party Slap

September 23, 2010

By the Staff of New York Immigration Attorneys
The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
http://www.4immigration.com/
As we predicted yesterday, the political rhetoric will heat up with the Nov. elections approaching. And Vice Pres. Joe Biden, whose foot has often landed in his sizeable mouth during election campaigns, is already taking his first big swipe at the opposition [...]

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McCain the Immigration Hard-Liner Wins

August 25, 2010

Ok, Sen. McCain, we applaud your win over J.D. Hayworth yesterday, like we said we would – but we won’t forget that it came via your disturbing transformation from a bipartisan maverick who once breathed life into a legal pathway for undocumented immigrants to a hard-line populist catering to those who wish your precious Arizona [...]

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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 do you think of Wyclef Jean for Prez of Haiti?

August 4, 2010

Source: TIME Magazine
Hip hop superstar, U.S. immigrant, Haitian American Wyclef Jean told TIME magazine he’s going to run for president of Haiti, announcing his candidacy for the Nov. 28 election.
Hip-hop, more than most pop genres, is something of a pulpit, urban fire and brimstone garbed in baggy pants and backward caps. So it’s little wonder [...]

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We pray for Jamaica as it declares State of Emergency

May 24, 2010

Source: ABC News
Jamaica’s security forces have begun moving in to arrest alleged Jamaican drug kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke. Coke, who had earlier vowed that he would not surrender, may now be cooperating, according to sources.
Coke is wanted by U.S. authorities for alleged drug and firearms offenses committed while running an international drug gang called [...]

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L.A. Mayor Dismisses Warning That Ariz Could Cut Off Power

May 20, 2010

You’ve got to be kidding us! Is Arizona becoming the new confederacy?
Source: FOX News
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Wednesday defiantly rejected a warning by a top Arizona utilities official that the state could cut off power to Los Angeles should the city proceed with its boycott of all things Arizona.
Spokesman David Beltran [...]

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USCIS to Issue Redesigned, State-of-the-Art Green Card

May 12, 2010

USCIS To Issue Redesigned Green Card
State-of-the-Art Technology Makes New Card More Secure
WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it has redesigned the Permanent Resident Card—commonly known as the “Green Card”—to incorporate several major new security features.
The Green Card redesign is the latest advance in USCIS’s ongoing efforts to deter immigration [...]

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More racial controversy for immigration-gripped Arizona

May 12, 2010

Source: The Associated Press
PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill targeting a school district’s ethnic studies program, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure.
State schools chief Tom Horne, who has pushed the bill for years, said he believes the Tucson school district’s Mexican-American studies program teaches [...]

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Immigrant Schwarzenegger jokes that Arizona would deport him

May 11, 2010

Source: CBS News
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has already expressed his opposition to Arizona’s controversial new immigration law, and in a commencement address he gave Monday in Atlanta, he couldn’t help but take a crack at the law.
“I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was [...]

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Major League Baseball Urged to Boycott Phoenix All-Star Game

May 10, 2010

Source: The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Menendez is urging the Major League Baseball Players’ Association to boycott next year’s All-Star Game in Phoenix over the recently passed Arizona law to crack down on illegal immigrants.
The New Jersey Democrat says in a letter that 27 percent of Major League players are Latinos and they shouldn’t [...]

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Lena Horne – Stormy Weather (1943)

May 10, 2010

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Pres. Obama Nominates Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

May 10, 2010

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan, 50, to the Supreme Court, declaring she would demonstrate the same independence, integrity and passion for the law exhibited by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
“Elena is widely regarded as one of the nation’s foremost legal minds,” said Obama. “She’s a trail-blazing leader.” [...]

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R.I.P. Lena Horne

May 10, 2010

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NBA Phoenix Suns Protest AZ Immigration Law

May 5, 2010

Did you hear what members of the National Basketball Association’s Phoenix Suns are doing to protest Arizona’s new immigration law?
Instead of donning their usual uniform jerseys for tonight’s playoff game, they’re switching up and putting on their orange “Los Suns” ones – both as a political statement and a way to honor Arizona’s huge [...]

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Celebrating Cinco de Mayo? Actually…No

May 5, 2010

By Mariana Vázquez-García
Immigration Attorney, The Law Offices of Spar & Bernstein
I was greeted a little while ago with a “Happy Cinco de Mayo!”
My reaction was: Thanks, but although I am Mexican, I don’t celebrate it.
Actually, neither does most of Mexico. “Cinco de Mayo” is not Mexico’s Independence Day. That day is September 16. [...]

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NY Gov. Paterson Move May Help Immigrants Facing Deportation

May 3, 2010

Source: New York Times
By Danny Hakim and Jeremy W. Peters
ALBANY — In a major rebuke of federal immigration policy, Gov. David A. Paterson announced on Monday that he would create a special pardon panel to review cases involving legal immigrants who are at risk of deportation for minor or old convictions.
Mr. Paterson’s move will give [...]

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Singer Shakira’s Concern Over Arizona’s New Immigration Law

May 3, 2010

And hips don’t lie!
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Interview with “Trail of Dreams” Walkers

April 30, 2010

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Democrats introduce new immigration framework

April 30, 2010

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Outside Our Windows: AFL-CIO Rally over Financial Reform

April 29, 2010

The police are out in force. Tons of people are clustering around City Hall Park. And the music is blaring, the Rocky theme and “Get ready, ’cause here I come.”
Right outside our window, activists organized by the AFL-CIO are getting ready to rally about financial regullatory reform, calling for “Wall Street accountability, the creation of [...]

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