Last week we learned of the President’s idea of comprehensive immigration reform through his draft outline that highlighted, among other things, the need to promote accountability for employers who deliberately hire and exploit undocumented workers. The Administration’s recommendations for achieving this goal include a better employment verification system, more comprehensive protections for workers, and a...Read More

According to reports, the nation’s immigration courts are backlogged as never before. At the end of last year, more than 260,000 cases remained pending before immigration judges, with the average wait being nearly sixteen months. While it is no secret that justice is not always swift, our immigration courts are increasingly lagging further behind, causing...Read More

As we had previously reported, a group of twenty-two U.S. Senators had written to President Obama asking that he forbid certain youth from being deported in an attempt to fulfill a part of what the highly contested immigration bill known as the DREAM Act would have achieved. Now, though, it appears that the demands for...Read More

Last Tuesday, President Obama hosted a White House meeting with seventy national leaders to discuss the challenge of fixing our broken immigration system. Some of the invitees included New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Sharpton, Evangelical leader Leith Anderson and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. While some advocates applauded the President’s renewed...Read More

The H-1B visa program has been among the most debated immigration issues, especially as the high technology industry pressures immigration officials for a higher number to be made available while those who oppose such an increase call for tighter controls on their distribution. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives had a sub-committee hearing in...Read More

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

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