We are now at a critical stage in the future of comprehensive immigration reform. Like in 2007, when President George W. Bush supported immigration reform, the GOP stands in the way. The Senate has already passed their version of a comprehensive immigration reform bill introduced by a bi-partison group of eight. At this point, the...Read More
Last week we had one of those moments in the life of a lawyer and a law firm. Back in 2006, I was retained to represent a young woman from Peru, aged 18, who was being detained at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach, Florida. She found herself in the custody of the Immigration...Read More
STATEMENT BY SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY JANET NAPOLITANO ON THE SUPREME COURT RULING ON THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT “I applaud today’s Supreme Court decision in United States v. Windsor holding that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional. This discriminatory law denied thousands of legally married same-sex couples many important federal benefits, including...Read More
The effort to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill is coming to a critical point this week in the United States Senate. Republicans remain divided on whether to support President Obama. They are still stinging from the last election where it became clear that Hispanic voters made a difference. Most are convinced that passage of...Read More
Our website contains a link where we post some of our case results. From time to time, however, comes a week where we have so much success that we blog about it also. This week was one of those periods where Pozo Goldstein positively changed the lives of so many. Here are the highlights of...Read More
A few days ago, I represented a young man from Brazil who legally came to the United States when he was five years old with his family to start a new life. He is 23 years old now, and works in the family business in West Palm Beach, Florida. Two times in the 18 years...Read More
Today, May 21, 2013, the Senate Committee who has been working on Comprehensive Immigration Reform voted, almost without dissent, to send the bill to the Senate floor for a vote of the full Senate. The Committee worked tirelessly to produce a consensus for a fair and comprehensive bill that will fix the current immigration laws...Read More
This coming week, the Committee of Eight will again meet to continue deliberations on comprehensive immigration reform. The Committee has held together the proposed bill in the face of attempts to severly cripple the bill or kill it all together through the introduction of proposed ammendments. Instead, the Committee has embraced ammendments that will help...Read More
Everyone is certainly relieved that at least part of the most dangerous aspect of the Boston Marathon investigation has come to a close with the killing and capture of the two suspects in the bombing. We thank the men and women law enforcement and firefighters who helped bring this dangerous situtation to a close. During...Read More
The so-called, “Committee of 8” will reveal details of their proposed immigration reform bill on Tuesday April 16th. The new bill is thought to deal with the nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants now living in the United States along with increasing the number of business visas and investment visas available to potential immigrants wishing to work...Read More
