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24-May-2015
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Some of the worst scams perpetrated in the United States often seek to defraud and victimize unsuspecting victims who are immigrants in the country. Just this week a notorious scheme was published when the two lead criminals were each sentenced to three years in federal prison. Mr. Hernandez de Arteaga and Ms. Maria de Lourdes Montano-Vicencio, who were both living in Houston, Texas were the ...
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12-May-2015
House Republicans from the Latino districts are pushing back against the Republican platform of anti-immigrant policies. Specifically, California Congressman Jeff Denham is leading an effort to make a path to legalization for the millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States. In fact, he has co-authored a bill that would give legal status in exchange for military service. Others in the ...
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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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9-Oct-2014
A Federal Appeals Court in Boston ruled that the mandatory detention provision in immigration law is being misapplied. Immigration Judges have been interpreting the mandatory detention law as applicable anytime a person was released from custody after October 8, 1998. This means that a person released from custody in 1999 and subsequently detained by immigration authorities in 2014, ...
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9-Oct-2014
The majority of the 66,000 undocumented children who have crossed the southwest border and surrendered do not have attorneys. Immigration advocates throughout the United States are desperately seeking immigration attorneys to help represent these children, some as young as 6 years old. The Immigration Courts around the nation are now packed with these children and this is causing havoc with the ...
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29-Sep-2014
In a surprise announcement from the Pentagon, the U.S. will now allow undocumented immigrants to serve in the United States armed forces. Yet, the skeptics are already weighing in on this policy that is really not what it seems. The application for military service will be under the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest program. This program recruits skilled foreigners but only if they ...
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28-Sep-2014
If you listen to the Republicans, they are saying there is a better chance for an immigration overhaul if their party wins control of Congress in November. If they control both chambers, they would have a stronger negotiating hand with President Obama in hammering out a bill that would fix the Nation's immigration system. Greater trust between the House and the Senate would go a long way to ...
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27-Sep-2014
Why did President Obama delay executive action for comprehensive immigration reform? One needs to look no further than back to 1994. In 1994 President Clinton the Democrats pushed a crime bill through and gun control politics have not recovered. Here, the Obama administration has come under intense scrutiny by immigrant advocates tired of delays in Congress to fix the Nation's broken immigration ...
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26-Jul-2014
This week President Barack Obama has requested that the President of El Salvador, Salvador Sanchez; Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina; and Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, convene with him at the White House. The purpose of the meeting is to collaborate on the increased and rising number of migrant children crossing the US-Mexico border from Central America. Obama has deemed the migrant children ...
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20-Jul-2014
On July 8, 2014, President Barack Obama requested $3.7 billion dollars from the U.S. Congress in hopes of resolving the developing issue at the U.S - Mexico Border. Approximately 52,000 children have traveled to the United States from Central America and Mexico, since October 2013. The number of children coming to the U.S. is presumed to surpass 90,000 by the end of this year. Many children have ...
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19-Jul-2014
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that Arizona could not lawfully deny any unauthorized immigrant a driver's license. This ruling applies to unauthorized immigrants that have been protected by the federal government from deportation and given permission to work. This decision helps groups of college students, and military veterans who have approved background ...
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