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October 2010
Please join us in welcoming Cristina Hernandez to the firm. Cristina will be handling all incoming client calls and making sure that all new and existing clients’ customer service needs are addressed. She is joined in this task by Yanisel Garcia, who has been with the firm for the last six months. Both Cristina and...
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Our client  is the direct victim of a qualifying “criminal activity” which is attempted murder under Section 101(a)(15)(U) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.  He is statutorily eligible under the Attorney General guidelines, in that he has suffered significant mental distress and extreme hardship due to the crime committed against him, and he continues to...
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Florida State Representative William Snyder has drafted an immigration bill, styled in a similar fashion as the Arizona bill, that would create new concerns for Hispanics and Latino groups who amount to about 22% of the state’s population. The bill would require that police officers check the legal status of anyone that has been stopped...
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A few weeks ago, John Morton, head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency , authored an internal memorandum (that quickly became external) spelling out new procedures to dismiss thousands of deportation and removal cases against people facing deportation.  The rationale was simple.  ICE wanted to focus on “serious criminals” and not on the...
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With its October session already underway, the Supreme Court has decided to provide the clarity and uniformity that the problem of hiring unauthorized aliens requires. It has granted the petition for certiorari in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting on the grounds that it concerns a question of exceptional national importance; and because the state disregarded...
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John Morton, head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed that the “Secure Communities” initiative where local police share fingerprints with federal immigration authorities is mandatory, not voluntary.  Some local governments have attempted to opt-out of the program citing costs and basic human rights concerns.  This is an about-face for the agency because...
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Deportations Hit a Record High (According to New York Times article by Julia Preston published Oct. 6, 2010) Immigration authorities deported a record 392,862 immigrants over the last year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said. About half of those deported- 195,775- were convicted criminals, also a record, and an increase of more than 81,000 deportations...
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From the Los Angeles Times, on October 6, 2010, it is reported that the Obama administration deported more people than last year according to figures released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  The article goes on to say that about half of the deportations were immigrants with criminal records.  Still, even with a record...
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