Outrage erupted in Alabama as countless families were denied basic utilities services not because they couldn’t afford them, but because they were undocumented. This is the criterion Decatur Utilities in Alabama has decided to use when determining who gets necessary home utilities from their company. According to the local newspaper, Decatur Utilities is now prohibiting...Read More
The residents of Arizona have rebuked the hard-line politics of the state Senate President Russell Pearce who was the author of the state’s tough anti-illegal immigration law that has given rise to copycat laws in several other states. The Senator has been forced out of office in a recall election. His defeat puts a different...Read More
The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the American Immigration Council (AIC) have found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and attorneys across the country are applying different standards on prosecutorial discretion despite the fact that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) implemented a specific policy to follow. In their report, which includes information...Read More
Image via Wikipedia The Justice Department has urged the Supreme Court to stay out of a lawsuit involving Arizona’s immigration law, saying lower courts properly blocked tough provisions targeting illegal immigrants. The department’s solicitor general said in one of his filings to the justices that the state law is a challenge to federal policy and...Read More
In the future, it could be possible to obtain Permanent Resident status in the United States by buying a house. Two U.S. Senators, one Democrat and one Republican, have worked together on a bill that would make a green card available to a foreigner who invests $500,000 in real estate in the United States. One...Read More
A report recently confirmed that the massive wave of deportations is separating families and relegating thousands of children to foster care. The Applied Research Center (ARC) spent a year researching the effects of immigration enforcement on families and the complications the system imposes on family reunification. ARC found that in the first six months of...Read More
Image via Wikipedia According to U.S. immigration authorities there could be thousands of human rights violators and war criminals living as illegal immigrants in the United States, some of them have even been able to get into the U.S. with legal authorization. Locating and removing these criminals is nothing new for immigration enforcement officers, but...Read More
Amid all the injustices undocumented immigrants are currently facing in their home states as state legislatures have passed law that specifically targets their lives and families, and despite the fact that these Arizona-style initiatives seem to be being implemented ever more often, the U.S. government is taking legal action to try to counter their policies....Read More
State Representatives Janet Cruz (D-Tampa), and Darren Soto (D-Orlando), requested that state Senator Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) be removed from the Senate Committee on Reapportionment he belongs to because of his recent statement that “many Hispanic-speaking people in Florida… are not legal.” His insensitive remarks created an uproar within congress members and the public alike. The...Read More
For many years, cities across California were pushed to adopt ordinances ordering businesses to verify that their employees were eligible to work in the U.S. Now, however, legislation has been signed into law that prohibits the state, cities and counties from mandating that private employers use E-Verify. Cities that had previously adopted the now outdated...Read More
