Today the Obama administration announced that federal laws prohibiting the possession and use of marijuana will not be enforced in the States where possession and use of marijuana has been legalized. The administration made it clear that while marijuana possession and use will still remain illegal under federal law, the government will not expend resources...Read More
Today Senator Charles E. Schumer said that the effort toward Comprehensive Immigration Reform is on track despite what you may hear. Even though the House of Representatives is approaching their bill in a different manner than the Senate, the content of the bills are similar, said Schumer. While the Senate passed their version of the...Read More
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE, has long refused to release tens of thousands of documents about CAP, or the Criminal Alien Program. CAP, a program that screens inmates, recognizes deportable immigrants, and puts them in removal proceedings, is amongst ICE’s largest enforcement programs. CAP functions in all prisons, both state and federal,...Read More
One of the benefits of having status in the United States is having access to government health benefits. Some of these benefits include Medicare, Medicaid, and Disability Benefits. For some of these government programs, being a Legal Permanent Resident for a certain amount of time makes applicants eligible, so long as they meet the other...Read More
It would be difficult to deny that Florida is among the states with the highest immigration levels in this country. In fact, one out of every three people that have moved to Florida in the past ten years has been a foreign immigrant. This phenomenon has also landed Florida among the states with the highest...Read More
House Republican’s lack of support for the Senate’s immigration reform bill is costing them at the polls. The Republican Party now has a 65% disapproval rating among Latino voters in 24 congressional districts, with a low 22% approval rating. The results of this poll came in on Wednesday after John Boehner, the Speaker of the...Read More
In yet another development in the roller coaster ride that is immigration reform; Paul Ryan told attendees at a town hall meeting in Wisconsin that his committee is not likely to vote on immigration related bills until October which would push back a vote in the House on comprehensive immigration reform. It is expected that...Read More
Recent polls show that conservative opposition to comprehensive immigration reform is not what most think. The tide may be turning toward a realistic possibility that immigration reform will be passed in some form once the House devises their own version of an immigration bill and negotiates with the Senate on a final bipartisan version. Republicans...Read More
Representative Steve King outrage many as he described immigrants in this country as 130 lbs with calves as huge as mellons from carrying 75 lbs of marijuana through the desert. Even other Republicans are expressing dismay with these comments. This is the mindset we are dealing with as the country tries to deal with an...Read More
As the Senate and White House work on a strategy to motivate House Republicans to pass immigration reform, Christian leadership and members of the evangelic community pray for members of the House to do just that. This group is basing their pro immigration reform stance on their biblical values, and holds that reform is an...Read More
