A class action lawsuit that was filed in Oregon charging the United States State Department and the Department of Homeland Security with arbitrarily and unlawfully returning US petitioner’s K1 visas at the U.S. Consulate in various countries. Plaintiffs are deprived of due process of law and petition approval denied withheld contrary to constitutional right contrary to [...]
The US has lifted a 22-year immigration ban which has stopped anyone with HIV/Aids from entering the country. Read more here.
Continue reading …You need a passport to go to Arizona! Los Angeles officials on Wednesday approved a ban on future business with Arizona in protest against its crackdown on illegal immigrants, becoming the largest U.S. city to impose such an economic boycott. http://tinyurl.com/22rdg8c A tough new anti-immigration law in the US state of Arizona is facing its [...]
Continue reading …There are many privacy and efficacy issues related to the latest immigration legislation requiring employment verification system from US workers. While it may appear deceptively simple, it is inundated with problems that would negate any true benefits from immigration reform to eradicate illegal immigration problems. Here’s the article from Immigration Impact.
Continue reading …Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has the experience and diplomacy to make immigration reform a top priority. This is certainly a practical and reasonable move in the right direction in the Obama administration. Here’s the article from Bloomberg on January 15th. Janet Napolitano, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for homeland security secretary, told a congressional panel [...]
Continue reading …Female immigrants find that U.S. citizenship has its price: An STD vaccination that critics say has a troubling record. Almost three summers ago — she won’t say exactly when — 24-year-old Catalina and a cousin finally crossed the border. She was happy enough, she says through an interpreter, back home in Mexico working at a [...]
Continue reading …Today on the Boston Globe, Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff, writes about what most immigration advocates have been pondering, whether Obama will carry through on his promise for immigration reform. Boston Globe: Before a huge crowd in San Diego last summer, Barack Obama vowed to make fixing illegal immigration a top priority as president, and Latinos [...]
Continue reading …The Associated Press reported that the Bush Administration has accomplished substantial immigration goals in light of failing to pass comprehensive immigration reform in 2007. By example, the government recently hired IBM to bring their paper process into an electronic system, a move that has many applauding the system but opponents are mindful of the fact [...]
Continue reading …The Presidential Election is but one day away and on the eve, we are bombarded in the news about sensationalized campaigning in a last ditch attempt to sway voters. It seems too much is focused on fluff and not enough on substantive issues, such as comprehensive immigration reform.
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