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A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing: the Enforcement Provisions of the White House Immigration Bill

February 21, 2013

Media coverage of the leaked White House immigration bill has mostly focused on its proposed path to citizenship for the nation’s undocumented immigrants. Little if any ink has been spilled on Title I of the...

The Leaked White House Immigration Bill: the Legalization Component

February 20, 2013

It took only three years longer than promised—and a leak that may or may not have been intentional—but the White House has finally produced a legislative proposal to fix the immigration system. Dubbed the Comprehensive...

Hey FAU! Drop GEO!

February 20, 2013

Yesterday, after receiving a gift of $6 million, Florida Atlantic University announced that it was renaming its stadium "The Geo Group Stadium," after the for-profit prison company, best known for operating detention facilities on behalf...

Immigration Reform Follies!

February 20, 2013

The past few days have revealed tremendous silliness in the immigration reform debate. It is a true pity given the serious stakes involved for everyone persecuted by the U.S.' brutal immigration laws. Just today, we...

Immigration Reform 2013: Understanding the “I-Squared” Act

February 18, 2013

We’ve previously told you about the broad proposals for immigration reform put forward by President Obama and the bipartisan group of Senators known as the “Gang of Eight.” Today, we’ll take you through an actual...

Should I Seek a Provisional Waiver or Just Wait for Immigration Reform?

February 13, 2013

The optimism and hope that have been generated by all of the hype around immigration reform has been intense. Every day, a new prominent political figure comes out in favor of immigration reform. Look, Sean...

Immigration Reform 2013: The Gang of Eight Plan

February 11, 2013

The week before last, we surveyed President Obama’s plan for comprehensive immigration reform. Today, we will look at a similar plan put forward by a bipartisan group of Senators known as the “Gang of Eight.”...

BR Client of the Month – February 2013

February 9, 2013

Here at Benach Collopy, we fight for families - families like our clients from Bangladesh, who were separated for over five years because of a misunderstanding at a consular interview and a mistake that the consul repeatedly...

Why Immigration Reform Must Also Avoid the Mistakes of 1996

February 6, 2013

Those following Tuesday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee could be forgiven for thinking the sole cause of our country’s immigration problems was the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (“IRCA”), the landmark bill...

The Whine of the ICE Bureaucrats

February 3, 2013

It has been a tough week for the ICE bureaucrats who have sought to undermine the political leadership of this country to pursue their own restrictivist and nativist agenda. Regular readers of this blog (my...

Does President Obama want to drop the one year asylum rule?

February 1, 2013

There is a single line in the President's immigration proposal that has escaped a lot of attention. As the idiotic "back of the line" concept and the path to citizenship dominate the headlines, the...

Immigration Reform 2013: The President’s Plan

February 1, 2013

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lVIuW8vJ_E&w=560&h=315] What a week it has been. There has been more positive discussion of immigration reform in the last week than in the past decade and while none of it is perfect, it is...

What is Extreme Hardship?

January 28, 2013

With all the excitement and buzz about the new I-601A Provisional Waiver process, described in Benach Collopy’s live video chat and our previous posts, it is important to remember that what has changed for certain...

What is the Deal with the Immigration “Line?”

January 28, 2013

This morning, we had a chance to review the five page blueprint for immigration reform produced by a bipartisan group of eight Senators. There is a lot to discuss on the blueprint, but one thing...

Opportunity Lost- Administration Seeks Supreme Court Review of De Osorio

January 26, 2013

On the same day that the immigration world was abuzz with news that the President would unveil his immigration reform plan next week, the administration filed a brief to preserve the unnecessary family separation caused...