The House, on February 7th, defeated a proposed amendment to the immigration laws that would have made a third DUI conviction and any domestic violence conviction an aggravated felony. These amendments were part of the proposed amendments to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). This is an important victory for non-citizens because an immigration aggravated...Read More

Finally the time is right for immigration reform to come about. We have been ready for this for very long, pleading with lawmakers to hear the cries of their constituents and forge a compromise on this issue, and although the wait has been lengthy, it appears that the time has finally arrived. Eight senators have...Read More

President Obama, after avoiding our plunge off the fiscal cliff, now can focus on the rest of his domestic agenda which was laid out during the recent Presidential campaign. One of the domestic agenda items is Comprehensive Immigration Reform. The President has already made it clear that he favors laws and regulations that focus on...Read More

The Secretary of Homeland Security just announced a new final rule that will promote family unity for visa applicants. According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the final rule applies to specific situations and will allow some relatives of United States citizens to apply for provisional unlawful presence waivers before leaving the country...Read More

The Federal Government announced that they are ending the program known as “287(g)”. This program, named after the regulation authoriziing it, allowed for local law enforcement to be deputized as federal agents in order to enforce the immigration laws of the nation. This was a controversial program as it resulted in the undocumented immigrants in...Read More

In yet another article about Immigration Judge Rex Ford, the Huffington Post highlights the issues at the Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach, Florida. Front and center is the culture at the facility where they seem to have a policy of not releasing detained immigrants on bond. In the case highlighted, a twelve year old...Read More

It appears that Republican Marco Rubio is taking the lead for the party in trying to attract Hispanic voters. He is urging a more permanent solution for the so-called DREAMers who were brought to the United States when they were minors and are now attempting to secure higher education. Rubio has been quoted as saying,...Read More

Asaf Darash, an Israeli citizen, started a software company in San Francisco called Regpack. The company has hired about 15 people so far. Despite this he is faced with deportation from the United States. The issue is that there is no such thing as an entrepreneur visa so he is forced to try and fit...Read More

On Tuesday evening the Presidential election was not the only thing to be decided, throughout out the nation people everywhere were voting for state amendments and referendums. In Maryland, the citizens of the state voted for their version of the Dream Act to stand, thereby allowing the undocumented students of the state to pay in-state...Read More

he people have voted and the incumbent president was once again chosen to be our chief executive for four more years. Barack Obama’s reelection comes with a string of ripple effects that will transform the way U.S. presidential campaigns are run. Mitt Romney will forever go down as the presidential candidate to have captured the...Read More