While the Florida legislature considers tough immigration enforcement bills that are like Arizona’s in style, the state of Arizona is stepping back form its stringent anti-immigrant stance. And while Utah is among the most conservative states in the country, it has passed a law that would give many undocumented workers statewide legal residence, the first...Read More
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee decided to loosen up the requirements for local law enforcement agents to try to enforce federal immigration laws. This issue forms the centerpiece of a nationwide debate, one that has been closely followed by Floridians from either side of the divide. This new measure indicates that the state legislature...Read More
Over the past several months, the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement has conducted several hearings where some members have questioned the value of most types of immigration, including legal avenues. Last week, the Subcommittee saw to diversity visas, a program that provides 50,000 green cards annually by lottery to persons from countries that...Read More
Last month, the Obama administration determined that the law that prohibits the federal government from recognizing gay marriages, the Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional. That is why an announcement made by immigration officials in Washington on Monday stating that they were going to delay decisions on some immigration cases involving gay couples led to...Read More
The Department of Homeland Security has stepped up its enforcement against employers who hire undocumented workers and it may end up costing seventy-one nursery workers their jobs, the Miami Herald reports. The nursery’s business is being hit hard by an action that could cost them half their workers. “The human toll is the real problem....Read More
According to immigration officials, the U.S. government will deport 700 Haitians this year. After the catastrophic earthquake that hit the country in January of last year, deportations to the island stopped and many Haitians were granted Temporary Protection Status (TPS) by the U.S. immigration authorities. In December of last year, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...Read More
As one of the latest measures implemented to ease some of the restrictions the United States has in place on Cuba, comes the news that chartered flights to and from Cuba will now be allowed to take off and land at eight new airports in the U.S. This will be sure to make it more...Read More
As lawmakers in Florida push for immigration-enforcement bills for fear of our state being invaded by a new wave of “aliens,” new data shows that the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States has remained stable over the past years. Recent estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...Read More
The Florida Senate’s immigration-enforcement bill includes a provision that holds the federal government responsible for failing to enforce immigration laws or enact reforms, a failure that it states is taking a toll on state resources. That is why the proponents of the bill have added a measure that would require the state to calculate the...Read More
In times of need, when we lack the means to fix a problem on our own and look to others for help, what happens when the people we would least expect are the only ones that come to our aid? An anecdotal tale written in the New York Times gives insight into an emergency situation where...Read More
