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17-Nov-2014
With the rumors flying about the President taking executive action on the Immigration Reform issue in the near future, Republican conservatives are coming up with a plan to thwart his attempt to act. This plan is based on control of governmental spending and the Republican's ability to block the president's potential laws, but refusing to pass the budgetary necessities for the law to become ...
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11-Nov-2014
This week President Obama was interviewed on the CBS news program, "Face the Nation." Following last Tuesday's mid-term elections, the President continued to defend his stance on immigration reform publically addressing the country in a national television broadcast. The elections last week did not help the Democratic cause, with the Republican Party taking control of the United States Senate and ...
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10-Nov-2014
The state of Arizona gained notoriety close to nine years ago when the state law enforcement officials took the federal government's immigration laws into their own hands and set off a debate nationwide regarding the treatment of undocumented individuals in the United States. The law which was so strictly enforced is now coming to an end, with a ruling last Friday that is striking down the state's ...
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9-Nov-2014
International corporations who would like to bring employees with specialized skills into the United States from overseas utilize one of two visa categories, the L-1A or the L-1B. The L-1A is limited to executives and individuals who will act in a managerial capacity and may have achieved higher education in the field of expertise. The L-1B visa is less concerned with education and focuses on ...
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7-Nov-2014
President Obama has hinted that he intends to allow the passage of a Comprehensive Immigration Reform without waiting for the approval of Congress, despite the fact that earlier this fall, the President stated that he would wait to push forward an immigration policy. At that time he stated he felt it might interfere with the November mid-term elections. In early September, the President indicated ...
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6-Nov-2014
Alan Long, former mayor of Murrieta, California was charged last week with driving while intoxicated and causing bodily injury. He was forced to resign from his post as mayor, following the arrest. Murrieta, located in Southern California was in the headlines recently, when the surge of undocumented individuals, many of them children and women, crossed the border from Mexico into the United ...
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6-Nov-2014
On Wednesday, President Obama spoke at a news conference, following the mid-term elections that took place the previous day. In his statements, the President continued to pledge his support for an Immigration Reform and vowed that he would continue to put forward action to achieve that end. At the news conference, President Obama told the public that he was tired of waiting for lawmakers to come ...
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5-Nov-2014
The rampage of shooting that took place last Friday in Northern California ended tragically with the loss of two police officers and injury to a third officer. A fourth civilian was also shot and injured in this shoot out that lasted for six hours and took place between two Northern California counties before the suspect was arrested. When the shooter, Marcelo Marquez, was taken into custody, he ...
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22-Oct-2014
Dario Guerrero, a junior at Harvard University made a rash decision to leave the United States to travel to Mexico, his country of birth, to bring his dying mother home to Mexico. Dario came to the United States when he was only 2 years old and moved to California with his family. They arrived on a tourist visa, but overstayed and remained in the United States undocumented for all the years since. ...
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21-Oct-2014
Recently, President Obama met with reporter Chuck Todd, in an exclusive interview on Meet the Press, and discussed his executive decision that has delayed the legislation on the Immigration Reform from passing. The President commented on the recent surge of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the Mexican border into the United States. He asserts that this dramatic influx of migrants, which ...
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16-Oct-2014
Josh Earnest, press secretary for the White House announced on Wednesday that they would be "surprised" if Republicans tried to block any executive decision regarding Comprehensive Immigration Reform that will be proposed in the near future. He likened the issue to the government shutdown last year where he contends that nothing if anything was gained regarding Republican political standing. Mr. ...
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15-Oct-2014
This week several legal groups reported that female detainees at an immigration facility in Karnes City, Texas were harassed and sexually abused at the hands of the employees of the facility. These women were detained for violating the immigration laws by unlawfully crossing into the United States across the Texas border. Last August, marked a dramatic increase in migration to the United States, ...
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15-Oct-2014
Most of the children from Central America who have crossed the border in the southwest recently have found themselves at a major disadvantage as they have not had the opportunity to have a lawyer represent them in removal proceedings before the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review. More than ...
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12-Oct-2014
Josh Earnest, press secretary for the White House announced on Wednesday that they would be "surprised" if Republicans tried to block any executive decision regarding Comprehensive Immigration Reform that will be proposed in the near future. He likened the issue to the government shutdown last year where he contends that nothing if anything was gained regarding Republican political standing. Mr. ...
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10-Oct-2014
By now, we all remember that President Obama used his executive powers to announce and implement the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) back in June 2012. DACA beneficiaries are able to legally remain in the United States without fear of deportation proceedings against them and are also eligible to legally work as well through employment authorization. According to the President, he is ...
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