President Obama has previously indicated that he will hold off in taking any further executive action in the immigration arena to give Congress a chance to vote on and pass new immigration laws designed to fix our broken immigration system. As the summer passes the half-way point, it becomes clearer that Congress does not wish...Read More
Once again, Arizona is on the losing end of an immigration controversy courtesy of a Federal Appeals Court. Arizona sought to deny state driver’s license to immigrants who were granted deferred action in President Obama’s executive action creating what is commonly known as the DREAM ACT. The regulation, officially called Deferred Action for Early Childhood...Read More
Since October 2013 approximately 47,000 children, mostly from Central American countries, have been detained during their attempt to cross the Rio Grande at the United States-Mexican Border in Texas. Today, it is estimated that the number of children illegally crossing Rio Grande into Texas and Arizona will increase to 60,000, nearly 10 times more children...Read More
On the heels of the accusations that President Obama is known as the Deportation President, comes a report that his administration has released into the United States an unknown number of families apprehended while travelling illegally from Central American countries. Apparently, the government knows how many people have been released into the United States but...Read More
As the debate rages on about comprehensive immigration reform, yet another major wrinkle has been added with the recent surge of unaccompanied minors crossing the Texas border. These children are sent to the United States by families desperate to save them from the rampant poverty and gang violence in their Central American countries. Young children...Read More
In May 2014, the White House postponed the Pentagon’s plan to allow young undocumented immigrants to enlist in the U.S. Military. Essentially, the Pentagon’s proposal would provide a pathway for young undocumented immigrants, sometimes referred to as the Dreamers, to receive citizenship if they are enlisted. The White House states that the delay was requested...Read More
President Obama announced that he was going to change his policy on deportations because Congress could not pass comprehensive immigration reform. The President recently used his executive authority to give legal status to “dreamers”, and to use prosecutorial discretion in the cases of undocumented parents of United States citizen children. The current state of enforcement...Read More
The Homeland Security Department’s latest crackdown on street gangs brought in more than 600 suspected gang members, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Thursday. Working alongside each other, ICE agents and local authorities in 179 cities arrested 638 suspected gang members over a monthlong procedure in March and April. ICE officials commented that 78...Read More
In April of this year, the Philadelphia state legislation turned their focus to a national movement, created to defend immigrants against deportation for negligible and nonviolent crimes. An administrative command was signed and enforced by Mayor Nutter, in order to terminate the city’s submission with federal agencies and agents who have requested that all arrested...Read More
The Florida Supreme Court ruled today that an undocumented immigrant and Florida State University law school graduate Jose Godinez-Samperio cannot be admitted to practice by the Florida Bar. This does not mean that this is the end for Godinez-Samperio. The Court urged the Florida Legislature to intervene and change the law quickly so a different...Read More
