Immigration Law

WAS ICE CHIEF MYERS' ABRUPT RESIGNATION TIED TO OBAMA AUNT SCANDAL?

Posted on November 06, 2008
This would explain the unusual timing of the resignation. Most agency heads stay on until at least the inauguration and sometimes until the new agency chief is confirmed by the Senate. Tim Dickenson of Rolling Stone Magazine has asked the question and is on the case...

PHOTOS FROM THE U OF C LAW SCHOOL OBAMA PARTY

Posted on November 06, 2008
Those of us who are products of the University of Chicago Law School are extremely proud of faculty member President-Elect Barack Obama. A couple of other faculty members are said to be on the short list for senior Administration positions and even the Supreme Court...

ARIZONA VOTERS PASS MEASURE SOFTENING IMMIGRATION BILL

Posted on November 05, 2008
The bill ratifying recent legislative changes passes easily.

ICE'S JULIE MYERS RESIGNS

Posted on November 05, 2008
DHS announces that the head of ICE will be gone by November 15th. She would likely be replaced in a few months anyway when President-Elect Obama names his choice for the job.

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LATINO VOTERS EXPECTED TO HEAVILY FAVOR OBAMA

Posted on November 04, 2008
America's Voice has released this helpful chart to give folks an idea of what to look for when analyzing tomorrow's Latino vote. Polling for the past several weeks has shown McCain getting between 25% and 33% in most surveys, a substantial drop from 2004...

LATE POLL: LATINO VOTE SURGING TOWARD OBAMA

Posted on November 04, 2008
Barack Obama's share of the Latino vote jumped eight percent in the final days of the campaign, according to a Zogby poll taken between October 30th and November 2nd. The poll showed Obama getting 78% of the Latino vote compared to 70% at the beginning of October.

OBAMA WINS AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Posted on November 04, 2008
Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama!

PALIN SUPPORTS PATH TO LEGALIZATION FOR ILLEGALLY PRESENT IMMIGRANTS

Posted on November 03, 2008
While John McCain, Barack Obama and Joe Biden all have solidly pro-immigration records, less is known about the positions of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The governor has indicated, however, that her views are consistent with her running mate and that she would seek to find a path to citizenship for many of the millions of illegally present immigrants in the country...

ARIZONA VOTERS TO DECIDE ON IMMIGRATION REFERENDUM

Posted on November 03, 2008
There are not very many immigration measures on ballots around the country tomorrow, but Arizona voters will decide on a referendum that many legislators around the country will be watching. The measure would add a number of business-friendly changes to one of the nation's toughest immigration laws...

FRAGOMEN FORCES DOL TO BACK DOWN

Posted on November 03, 2008
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy has prevailed in its effort to get the Department of Labor to reverse its audit of the firm's PERM applications and to clear its name. In a settlement agreement approved today by the court, the DOL has been forced to withdraw the ridiculously unfair press releases announcing the audit of the firms' clients PERM petitions...

KOSHER BEEF SHORTAGE LOOMS AS AGRIPROCESSORS NEARS COLLAPSE

Posted on November 03, 2008
It's hard to have a lot of sympathy for Agriprocessors, a company that appears to have acted in a pretty brazen fashion not only in hiring illegally present workers, but in how it allegedly treated those workers. On the other hand, the meat and poultry industry in this country has been placed in a no win situation where it can choose between hiring illegal workers, going without US workers or simply moving its operations overseas...

ICE REFERS OBAMA AUNT MATTER TO GENERAL INSPECTOR

Posted on November 02, 2008
By now you've probably heard about Barack Obama's half-aunt who was revealed to be living illegally in Boston since the denial of her asylum petition four years ago. The Obama campaign released a statement yesterday indicating they had no knowledge of the aunt's status and that he had not spoken with her in over two years...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: PHIL KEOGHAN - TELEVISION PERSONALITY

Posted on November 02, 2008
I am not a big fan of most reality television shows, but one big exception is CBS' The Amazing Race. I watch it religiously with my kids every Sunday night and it's a fun way for us to see the world from our living room. One of the ingredients that makes the show a hit is Phil Keoghan, the show's New Zealand-born host...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: IRSHAD MANJI - ACTIVIST

Posted on October 31, 2008
Today's New York Times has an opinion piece by activist Irshad Manji that caught my attention. Ms. Manji writes about her experience on October 31, 1972 when the family arrived for entry as refugees in Montreal. They were fleeing Uganda after Idi Amin decided to kick out the Indians who had helped over generations to build up the economy of the central African country...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: PETER CAREY - AUTHOR

Posted on October 30, 2008
Australian writer Peter Carey is an award-winning author of works like Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. The 65 year old is a long time resident of New York and also the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Hunter College...

AGGRAVATION FOR AGRIPROCESSORS

Posted on October 30, 2008
Agriprocessors, the large Iowa meatpacking company that was the site of a massive work site raid in May, has been fined $10,000,000, the largest penalty ever levied against an American company for immigration-related violations. And ICE announced yesterday that one of the company's human resource managers has plead guilty to harboring illegal aliens and aggravated identity theft...

MCCAIN VERSUS OBAMA: WHERE THE CANDIDATES STAND ON IMMIGRATION

Posted on October 29, 2008
My friend Steven Thal has co-written an article on this topic here on ILW.com and its very thorough. Get out and vote!

MAYOR BLOOMBERG: MEMO TO THE NEXT PRESIDENT ON IMMIGRATION

Posted on October 28, 2008
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote a detailed memorandum to the next President in the latest Newsweek Magazine. The mayor succinctly lays out the case for immigration reform being included in the First 100 Days agenda: Pioneering green energy?and countless other new technologies?requires the best and brightest minds...

USE IMMIGRATION TO REBUILD THE AMERICAN ECONOMY

Posted on October 28, 2008
Want to stimulate the US housing market and create jobs? Take advantage of the fact that many people around the world are still anxious to become American and put their capital and entrepreneurial spirit to work. Dori Segal and Brian Lee Crowley have come up with a creative plan that has two primary elements:America should immediately offer fast-track immigration to foreigners willing to do two things...

TANCREDO CONTEMPLATING RUN FOR COLORADO GOVERNOR?

Posted on October 28, 2008
Hard to say whether the anti-immigrant soon to be former member of the House of Representatives was kidding or floating a trial balloon.

NILC ISSUES ADVISORY MEMO TO CLEAR UP CONFUSION OVER NO-MATCH RULE

Posted on October 28, 2008
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NO-MATCH UPDATE

Posted on October 27, 2008
To say that the DHS has been confusing the public with the announcement of its final no-match rule is an understatement. Now after saying that the rule might not be published for a few weeks (presumably to ge the judge's sign off first), now we're learning that the rule will be published tomorrow (hat tip to Dan Kowalski for letting us know)...

CHUCK TODD: HISPANICS ARE KEY TO AN OBAMA WIN

Posted on October 27, 2008
The media may be focusing on the turnout of African-Americans and young voters, but another group will also be critical, according to the Chuck Todd, NBC News' political head honcho. Todd sees Hispanics as the key to winning critical western states like Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico...

IMMIGRANTS OF THE DAY: IMMIGRANT PLAYERS ON THE TAMPA BAY RAYS

Posted on October 26, 2008
Lest you think that the World Series is not really a "world"championship, look no further than the rosters of the teams. Just like the Philadelphia Phillies who I wrote about the other day, their World Series opponent, the Tampa Bay Rays, also have a number of immgrant players...

DHS WON'T IMPLEMENT NO-MATCH RULE UNTIL JUDGE OKAYS

Posted on October 24, 2008
Secretary Chertoff has indicated that the agency will NOT implement the no-match rule until a judge that enjoined the 2007 rule signs off. This appears to contradict the language in the preamble in the proposed rule which indicated DHS did not need the judge's approval...

IMMIGRANTS OF THE DAY: THE PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES

Posted on October 23, 2008
The National League champs from Philadelphia were the 3-2 victors in tonight's opening game of the 105t Major League Baseball World Series. Each team has a number of immigrants from a variety of countries making this truly a WORLD Series. Tonight I honor the immigrant ballplayers on the Phillies...

DHS TO ANNOUNCE NEW NO-MATCH RULE

Posted on October 23, 2008
Secretary Chertoff will have a press conference today to discuss the nrule and also talk about the state of immigration enforcement at 11:30 eastern time this morning.

PELOSI INDICATES DEMOCRATS WILL MOVE ON IMMIGRATION REFORM

Posted on October 23, 2008
From an interview in today's Los Angeles Times:Pelosi also said Congress would have to tackle the politically sticky job of overhauling immigration laws in the new Congress, after a bipartisan measure collapsed last year.The estimated 12 million immigrants in the U...

SUMMARY OF NEW NO-MATCH RULE

Posted on October 23, 2008
[Here is my detailed FAQ on the new no-match rule from DHS as well as an initial overview of the convoluted history behind today's announcement. The rule is identical to the March 2008 proposed rule and virtually identical to the August 2007 rule which explains my speed in getting this online]...

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT GIVES BLESSING TO NO MATCH RULE

Posted on October 23, 2008
Concerns about whether complying with the safe harbor provisions of the No-Match rule released today by DHS will expose employers to liability under IRCA's anti-discrimination rules (which are enforced by the Justice Department) have been addressed in a statement published by DOJ online today:An employer that receives an SSA no-match letter and terminates employees without attempting to resolve the mismatches, or who treats employees differently or otherwise acts with the purpose or intent to discriminate based upon national origin or other prohibited characteristics, may be found by OSC to have engaged in unlawful discrimination...

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