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Latest news related to immigration law in a simple, clear, and interesting manner by a partner in Siskind Susser's Memphis, Tennessee office who specializes in immigration matters in the healthcare and technology industries.
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Last Entry: March 30, 2011 at 17:55:32

IMMIGRANTS OF THE DAY: USA SOCCER TEAM EDITION

Posted on June 26, 2010
Its half time during the big game with Ghana and we're behind a goal, but I know we're going to pull it out. And the fact that we've gone this far is due in no small measure to our incredibly diverse team with players from all over the world that have become Americans...

REPUBLICANS FEAR OBAMA CONSIDERING PAROLE OPTION

Posted on June 25, 2010
One of the options the President has had on the table - one every President has - is using an administrative option to provide temporary legal status and work authorization to those in the country illegally. Rumors have been spreading within the community of antis around the country and they've gotten a handful of hardcore anti-immigrant members of Congress to send a letter warning the President to drop the idea (if indeed it was really being considered...

RUPERT MURDOCH TAKES PRO-IMMIGRATION CASE TO HIS OWN FOX NEWS

Posted on June 25, 2010
I'm actually writing this blog post on an airplane with Internet access. That's a first for me and those of you who know how much I love technology can probably envision the smile on my face. Back to the post, however. This is really remarkable. Fox News has championed the most hostile antis out there...

KOS: IMMIGRATION POSITIONS WILL COST CALIFORNIA SENATE AND GOVERNOR RACES

Posted on June 23, 2010
Markos Moulitsas, the prominent left of center blogger, writes in the Hill:Once promising, the GOP?s designs on the Golden State governor?s mansion and Sen. Barbara Boxer?s seat are now running aground on a serious, self-imposed obstacle ? the months of anti-immigrant rhetoric voiced by their candidates in this immigrant-rich state...

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER BECKER: CHARGE $50K FOR IMMIGRATING

Posted on June 23, 2010
Gary Becker, the Nobel Prize winning economist from the University of Chicago (go Maroons!) came out of left field and proposed charging a $50,000 fee to immigrate, an amount he believes would generate $50 billion per year. Professor Becker made the remarks in a lecture he was delivering in the UK...

ARIZONA LAW COULD COST GOP TEXAS GOVERNOR'S RACE

Posted on June 23, 2010
From Public Policy Polling: Our poll of the Texas Governor's race this week is another data point indicating possible backlash for Republican candidates this fall in the wake of the Arizona immigration law. When we polled the race in Februrary Rick Perry led Bill White by 6 points...

PREZ TO KYL: "YOU LIE!"

Posted on June 22, 2010
Well, he didn't exactly use that phrase, but pretty close. Here's how the Washington Post is describing the war of words: The White House and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz), the No. 2 man in the Senate GOP leadership, feuded Monday over immigration policy, as the Arizona senator said that President Obama personally told him the administration will not support stricter border enforcement until Republicans back broad immigration reform...

FREEMONT, NEBRASKA VOTERS PASS SANCTIONS LAW

Posted on June 22, 2010
Voters in meatpacking town Freemont, Nebraska have passed a referendum that bars the hiring of illegally present immigrants and also bars renting property to them. The referendum passed with 57% of the vote. Freemont joins Farmington, Texas and Hazleton, Pennsylvania in passing similar laws and, like those communities, is likely to have to defend the measure in court...

USCIS PUSH TO DEPORT SERBIAN SISTERS HIGHLIGHTS PROBLEMS AT THE AGENCY

Posted on June 22, 2010
One reads this story in the Dallas Morning News and is prompted to scratch his or her head wondering how these two women - both here since early childhood, both with completely clean criminal backgrounds, both married to US citizens - could be facing deportation...

NEW MEXICO CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE PROPOSING LANDMINES ON THE BORDER

Posted on June 19, 2010
This is not just a fringe candidate - he's the GOP nominee for New Mexico's northern congressional seat.

AFL-CIO READY TO SUPPORT IMMIGRATION REFORM

Posted on June 19, 2010
A key development considering that they helped to sink immigration reform before.

PLEA TO OBAMA LEADS TO ICE ARREST

Posted on June 19, 2010
A reader linked to this in the comments and it's worth bumping up to its own post. The New York Times' Nina Bernstein reports on a couple - a white US citizen woman and her Cameroon national husband - who have been battling to prevent the husband from being deported...

HILARY REVEALS WHITE HOUSE PLANS TO SUE ARIZONA

Posted on June 18, 2010
It looks like this was an inadvertent statement of the President's plans before it was formally announced by the Justice Department. Secretary of State Clinton told an Ecuadoran television station: ?President [Barack] Obama has spoken out against the law because he thinks that the federal government should be determining immigration policy,? Clinton said in comments first highlighted by a conservative blog...

NEW POLL CONTAINS GOOD NEWS FOR ANTIS AND PROS

Posted on June 18, 2010
A new poll from ABC News shows a seemingly contradictory result. Nearly six in ten support the controversial Arizona law SB1070. That will make the Tea Party crowd happy. But the buried headline is that almost the same number support legalizing illegally present immigrants...

MINUTEMAN FOUNDER NOW A WANTED FUGITIVE

Posted on June 16, 2010
Oh, the irony. Minuteman Founder Chris A. Simcox is a fugitive on the run from law enforcement for failing to pay child support.

NFAP: PENDING H-1B AND L-1 SENATE BILLS LIKELY VIOLATE TRADE LAWS

Posted on June 16, 2010
The National Foundation for American Policy has issued an important report analyzing the interplay between of trade laws and S.887 and S.2804, bills introduced by Senators Grassley and Sanders, which would impose an array of new restrictions on skilled workers...

THE DREAMERS

Posted on June 16, 2010
Two stories are in the news this week that serve as reminders of why we need legislation to help young people without legal immigration status. One involves Eric Balderas, a Harvard undergraduate who came to the US from Mexico at the age of four and speaks English as his primary language...

MAYORS' GROUP CONDEMNS ARIZONA LAW

Posted on June 15, 2010
The mayors of 200 of America's largest cities weigh in on the Arizona law.

STEVE KING: OBAMA SUPPORTS IMMIGRATION REFORM BECAUSE HE'S A RACIST

Posted on June 15, 2010
If you ever hear someone from the GOP say that Democratic attacks that the GOP is anti-immigrant are unfair, remember that Steve King is the person given the ranking member position on the House Immigration Subcommittee. ThinkProgress reports on the latest nonsense to come from the mouth of Mr...

TEXAS GOP GOES DOWN THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT ROAD

Posted on June 14, 2010
America's Voice is reporting on another state GOP that has surrendered to the Tea Party nihilists and put their long term viability in jeopardy. This time it's the Lone Star State. According to AV: At their party convention this weekend, Texas Republicans embraced a hard-line anti-immigration stance by calling for an Arizona-like anti-immigrant law, endorsing a mass-deportation policy, and pledging support for a repeal of the birthright citizenship component of the 14th Amendment...

BRAIN GAIN

Posted on June 13, 2010
The Brookings Institute's Darrell West has authored a new book entitled Brain Gain: Rethinking US Immigration Policy which makes the case that comprehensive immigration reform is critical to keeping the US competitive in the 21st century global economy...

KOBACH CRITICIZED BY FEC

Posted on June 11, 2010
ThinkProgress is reporting that Arizona law mastermind Kris Kobach is being criticized by the Federal Election Commission regarding the finances of the Missouri Republican Party during his tenure as chairman.

USCIS PROPOSING 10% FEE INCREASE

Posted on June 11, 2010
USCIS used to have a lot of difficulty raising fees and would only get increases approved every few years. They now raise their fees frequently and have just announced their intentions to do so again. In the past, they blamed poor service on the lack of resources and promised - many times - that more money would translate in to better results...

JOIN IMMIGRATION VOICE FOR CAPITOL HILL VISITS MONDAY AND TUESDAY

Posted on June 06, 2010
If you care about America's ability to compete in the years to come, you know that having a robust, well-functioning talent worker visa system is critical. One group with a great track record for work on creating such a system is Immigration Voice. They're sponsoring Immigration Voice Advocacy Days June 7th and 8th in Washington and I urge all readers able to participate to please do so...

BREWER CAUGHT IN LIE OVER HER "PERSECUTION" OVER SB1070

Posted on June 03, 2010
If you're going to fudge the truth, you would think she would pick something tough to refute. From the Arizona Republic: Gov. Jan Brewer said in a recent interview that her father died fighting Nazi Germany. In fact, the death of Wilford Drinkwine came 10 years after World War II had ended...

NEW REPORTS FROM NFAP

Posted on June 01, 2010
The National Foundation for American Policy has put out a number of excellent reports on the state of American immigration and now they have two more. Family Immigration: The Long Wait to Immigrate Family immigration quotas are inadequate and result in separation and long waits for Americans, lawful permanent residents and close family members...

ARE FOREIGN IT WORKERS CHEAPER?

Posted on May 30, 2010
Two University of Maryland management professors have studied the question and say no:The use of H-1B and other work visas to hire foreign information technology (IT) professionals in the United States has attracted significant controversy and policy debates...

THE REAL WORLD

Posted on May 30, 2010
In the magical, fantasy world of the antis, if you just got rid of those pesky illegally present immigrants, Americans will be lining up to take those jobs. And those jobs would, of course, pay fabulously well because those evil employers, only interested in paying as little as possible, will have to pony up the big bucks for real American workers...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: ANNA WINTOUR - FASHION ICON

Posted on May 30, 2010
If you don't know British-born Anna Wintour, editor of American Vogue, you probably know the book The Devil Wears Prada whose lead character Miranda Priestly is said to be based on Wintour. Ms. Wintour was profiled on this evening's 60 Minutes and she is widely recognized as one of the most influential women in the world of fashion.

SO MUCH FOR PLAYING BY THE RULES

Posted on May 30, 2010
Antis often say that as long as people play by the rules they don't have a problem with having a robust immigration system. But consider the Franks, a British couple awarded an E-2 visa ten years ago who have poured their savings and their blood, sweat and tears in to a restaurant that they were given permission to open and operate...

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