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Cuban-American Immigrant Poet to read at Inauguration

January 10, 2013

President Obama has chosen Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco to read at his inauguration. Blanco will be the first Latino poet as well as the first openly gay poet to perform an inaugural poem. According...

The Immigration Industrial Complex

January 9, 2013

The Migration Policy Institute recently released a study documenting that the U.S. government spent $18 billion on immigration enforcement, dwarfing the $14 million spent on other federal law enforcement agencies. The FBI, the DEA and...

DACA, Provisional Waivers, and de Osorio?

January 4, 2013

The publication of the rule allowing for processing of provisional waivers for unlawful presence in the United States was another act of administrative rule-making that the President has undertaken to make the immigration laws more...

Immigration On Deck!

January 4, 2013

As most of us in Washington returned to work on January 2, 2013, we noticed that many of our fellow Washingtonians were bleary-eyed and slow-moving. Unfortunately, their lethargy stemmed not from all night and day...

New Memo on Detainers- Will it be Followed?

December 28, 2012

A persistent and fair criticism of the current administration is that while it has made grand pronouncements of focusing its enforcement efforts on violent criminals and threats to the national security, programs like 287(g) and...

Howdy, Trey Gowdy!

December 21, 2012

Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was named the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, a committee that will presumably have a lead role in developing any new immigration law in the...

Indifference

December 13, 2012

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM_ENZLbXtQ&w=420&h=315] It is very true that the immigration laws need a wholesale revision. Congress needs to make substantial changes, regulations need to be re-written, precedent decisions scrapped and new guidance forthcoming. But another...

What?? I’ve Got Another Cap to Worry About? Cancellation Numbers Dry Up.

December 7, 2012

The rumors flew wildly on Wednesday. The cap has been reached! No, not that cap. The H-1B cap of 65,000 visas for FY 2013, which began on October 1, 2012, was reached in June 2012. ...

This is Personal

November 30, 2012

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/39893818 w=400&h=300] One of the burdens I carry is the knowledge that I come from one of the country's anti-immigrant hotspots. No, I am not from Arizona, Alabama, Postville, Iowa or Hazelton, Pennsylvania. I...

The ACHIEVE Act is Introduced

November 28, 2012

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cnbAi-azP0&w=560&h=315] Last week, we brought you news of the plans of certain Republican Senators to introduce an alternative to the DREAM Act. Today, Senators Hutchinson (R-TX), Kyl (R-AZ) and McCain (R-AZ) introduced the ACHIEVE...

The STEM Jobs Act: More of the Same From the House Republicans

November 25, 2012

The House of Representatives is moving quickly to give the appearance that they have changed their tune on immigration. The House is scheduled to vote this week on the STEM Jobs Act, sponsored by the...

On Dinosaurs- Can Immigration Reform Pass the House?

November 18, 2012

We have heard lots of talk about the need for bipartisan immigration reform in the new Congress. We have heard that Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will work with Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) on a new...

Mitt Romney would honor DACA grants, not issue new ones

October 3, 2012

Thirty four days before the Presidential election, Republican nominee Mitt Romney has expressed a position on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has been in place since August 15. In an interview...

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