Recently, 13 different states have taken action in regards to immigration rather than waiting for Congress take action at the federal level. These states have allowed immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. In addition, these states have decided to mesh these undocumented immigrants in the mainstream economy in hopes of improving the state economies. One representative...Read More
The mid-term elections that took place yesterday were a landslide for the Republican Party in most parts of the country. This is not good news for supporters of a Comprehensive Immigration Reform, whose political leanings tend to be Democratic. The Republican Party has articulated its opposition to any Immigration Policy that President Obama intends to...Read More
Since the announcement of Caitlyn Jenner redefining herself as a transgender woman, the topic has been brought to the forefront of the news in the United States. The plight of these individuals is finally being discussed and addressed with the American public on a daily basis. Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender individuals, commonly known and...Read More
Earlier this week a group of immigration advocates, mainly women, organized a protest and march that began at the York County Prison and would ultimatly end in Washington D.C., more than 100 miles away. The activists’ main objective was to raise awareness of the plight of the millions of immigrants living in the United States...Read More
In Pasadena, California earlier this week a fraudulent immigration scheme was uncovered when a father and daughter were arrested for arranging fake marriages for immigration purposes. The father and daughter pair are alleged to have been involved in arranging more than 70 fake marriages, as far back as 2006 to the present year. The father,...Read More
As conditions in countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Balkans continue to worsen, particularly Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, a wave of asylum-seekers have relocated to Europe in search of safety. So far, Germany has accommodated more migrants than any other country in Europe, accepting as many as 180,000 people in the first...Read More
On Friday, Republican presidential hopeful, Donald Trump gave a speech in Mobile, Alabama to an audience of more than 35,000, the largest group of supporters to date, at the Ladd-Pebbles Stadium. Alabama has a history of anti-immigration legislation in its recent past, most nationally recognizable back in 2011 when the governor signed into law a...Read More
The United States of America is the land of the free, as many like to call it. But is this what our immigration policies demonstrate? Immigrants from all over the world look to America as a source of freedom and a way out of the demoralizing and corrupt countries they may come from. While many...Read More
With the recent change in policy between the United States and Cuba, more than 35,000 nationals of Cuba who have been ordered removed or deported from the United States may now find they may be sent back to their home island. In the past, Cuba did not accept deportees back onto its soil so individuals...Read More
On July 14th, the Homeland Security Secretary issued a proposed expansion of the provisional waiver for unlawful presence rule. This will be published in the Federal Register for publication and comments. The proposal suggests two changes to the current provisional waiver regulation. First, the proposed rule seeks to expand the provisional waiver to all that...Read More
