It generally used to be the case that when a noncitizen would leave the country, be it through deportation or voluntary departure, he could not reopen his immigration case from outside the United States. However, an en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has rejected the government’s attempt to...Read More
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the State of Arizona may impose tough anti-immigration measures. Among the issues that will be decided on is a law that was enacted last year that allows the police in Arizona to question people about their immigration status when making a lawful stop. It is...Read More
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich strayed away from his Party’s camp by calling for a “humane” path to immigration enforcement for undocumented immigrants. By going forth with this move that is considered taboo amongst the GOP, he has “established double-digit leads in some polls in the early voting states...Read More
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the new detainer will allow the agency to implement their prosecutorial discretion guidelines by identifying who has been convicted and is removable and who simply has a pending charge and is not removable for any other criminal or immigration violations. ICE may choose not to exercise enforcement action against...Read More
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) recently released a report in which it claims that native-born workers with science and engineering (S&E) degrees are being driven en masse into non-S&E occupations due to competition from foreign-born workers willing to accept lower wages. The conclusion FAIR came to, however, is lacking important details and is...Read More
The recently released fifth edition of the New American Heritage Dictionary has surprised us with its recent inclusion of a term that sprouted in immigration speak. Among the new entries is the term “anchor baby” which is the pejorative description of a child born in the United States to parents without legal status, implying that...Read More
The Immigrant Learning Center (ILC) published a study that shares the stores of 36 children of immigrants from a wide variety of countries of origin and family businesses. In the report aptly titled Adult Children of Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Memories and Influences , there is conclusive evidence that the children are heavily influenced by their immigrant...Read More
The Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will begin reviewing about 300,000 deportation proceedings to once and for all implement prosecutorial discretion measures that were instructed to be implemented in a June 2011 memo issued by John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Office of Principal Legal Advisor at ICE...Read More
The Florida Agriculture Commissioner, Adam Putnam, told state citrus industry leaders that Florida GOP elected officials should be credited for not passing the “mistaken” state immigration laws now in place in Georgia and Alabama. He spoke at the 78 th annual meeting of Citrus World Inc., saying “There’s just no good news here…The best news...Read More
Florida Congressman Marco Rubio spoke on Fox News about the immigration and foreign policy comments made by Republican presidential candidates and also answered questions about a potential vice presidential run. Rubio acknowledged the debate in the GOP going on over America’s foreign policy. “We are the party of strong national defense, that understands the role...Read More
