Judge Decides on State Immigration Law
U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. has made a decision by issuing a preliminary injunction on two key provisions of H.B. 87, the new Georgia Immigration Reform Law. Sections 7 and 8 of HB 87 were blocked by the ruling, thus disallowing state and law enforcement officers and officials from arresting, detaining or prosecuting [...]
Deportation without Question
A woman from Henrico County is now facing deportation proceedings despite being a legal immigrant. Karinna Somoza came from El Salvador when she was seven and has resided since the age of nine in Chesterfield to the present, now at forty-two years of age. She has three American children and an American husband. Her problem [...]
Race Rhetoric Rampant
In a recent speech, Senator John McCain, former Presidential candidate and current Senator of Arizona has gone overboard on blaming the nation’s ills on the continued tide of illegal immigrants into the country. He declared that there is substantial evidence to show that wildfires in his home state have been started by people who have [...]
Memo Quietly Released Has Political Implications
In a new memorandum, President Barack Obama has offered a guideline that would have the effect of quasi-amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. The memo instructs the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to exercise “prosecutorial discretion” when enforcing immigration laws on illegal immigrants that provide evidence of enrollment in an educational facility or [...]
Pulitzer Prize Winner is an Illegal Alien
For fifteen years, Jose Antonio Vargas has kept a secret that would have changed his life. Now that he is a Pulitzer Prize winner as a journalist, he has undertaken a new cause, now much nearer to his heart and that is fighting for the plight of undocumented aliens in the United States. Vargas revealed [...]
Georgia Law Constitutionality to Be Decided
Last Monday, a federal judge heard oral arguments on an immigration law recently put into effect in Georgia. The law concerns immigration issues and the case hinges on the unconstitutionality of the said law as it oversteps its state powers as against federal authority. US District Judge Thomas Thrash heard both the American Civil Liberties [...]
Pro-Mexican Immigration Moves Get Boost
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund held its annual gala award ceremony was graced with full time commitments from luminaries in both government and the silver screen. Desperate Housewives Eva Longoria presented a prize to current Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. Before she called on the Secretary, she reaffirmed her commitment towards immigration reform. [...]
Obama Visits Puerto Rico
President Obama’s visit to Puerto Rico marks the first time a president would make a state visit to the islands in the last fifty years. Many view this as a political jaunt to gather more votes with the increasing Puerto Rican presence in the many states. On the other hand, it would also be the [...]
Immigration Dragnet Expands with Tie Up
The Federal Trade Commission has just entered into a partnership agreement with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services arm of the Department of Homeland Security. The agreement allows the USCIS to access the FTC’s consumer complaint database to investigate scammers posing as immigration legal advisers. Before this access, law enforcement officials can only search using [...]
Increasing State Legislation on Immigrants Seen in First Quarter of 2011
Many seem to think that the issue of immigration is a federal matter but quite the contrary has been observed in many state legislatures in the first quarter of 2011 alone. After a survey of state legislations filed, there have been a total of 1,358 bills and resolutions that have been filed in the fifty [...]
