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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

HAITIAN DEPORTATIONS HALTED

Posted on January 13, 2010
From Immigration and Customs Enforcement: STATEMENT BY DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY MATT CHANDLER ?Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton today halted all removals to Haiti for the time being in response to the devastation caused by yesterday?s earthquake...

NAPOLITANO'S INITIAL STATEMENT ON HAITI DOESN'T ADDRESS TPS

Posted on January 13, 2010
Secretary of Homeland Security has just released the following statement on the Haitian earthquake (which, according to CNN, now is expected to have a death toll along the lines of the Asian tsunami): "The entire Department of Homeland Security (DHS) extends its sympathy for the devastation and loss of life in Haiti following last night's earthquake--a disaster that has called the world to action in response...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: RICH LITTLE - IMPRESSIONIST

Posted on January 13, 2010
When I was growing up, Canadian-born Rich Little was about the only impressionist I could name. Come to think of it, he's still one of the only people most people can name in this niche area of comedy. Sure, Saturday Night Live has had great comedians over the years who have done great impressions (Dana Carvey is probably my favorite), but they're not primarily known as impressionists...

AILA LEADERS CALL FOR HAITIAN TPS

Posted on January 13, 2010
Haitians have been excluded from TPS benefits during past disasters, but groups like AILA are already working to make sure that this desperately needed relief is not denied.

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NATION'S FAITH-BASED IMMIGRATION AGENCIES URGES TPS FOR HAITIANS

Posted on January 13, 2010
Refugee Council USA sent a letter to the White House today signed by leaders of 24 leading refugee and immigrant resettlement organizations urging President Obama to grant Temporary Protected Status to Haitians in the United States. One of the organizations is HIAS - The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society - released the following statement explaining why this issue is so important: HIAS, the international migration agency of the American Jewish community, strongly urges the U...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: EMILIO ESTEFAN - MUSICIAN/PRODUCER

Posted on January 13, 2010
Cuban-born Emilio Estefan has been one of the most well-known residents of my home town of Miami since my childhood. He was a member of the famous band The Miami Sound Machine and in the years since he has become a highly successful Latin music producer in South Florida's music community...

MCCAIN: WHY WOULD I WANT TO BE THE LEADER OF A PARTY OF SUCH A**HOLES?

Posted on January 12, 2010
While the media is obsessing over Harry Reid's embarrassing comments about President Obama, Politico reports on another juicy story reported in Game Change, the new book on the 2008 campaign: [McCain aides John] Weaver and [Mark] Salter begged McCain to ease up...

POLL: AMERICANS STILL FIRMLY IN FAVOR OF IMMIGRATION REFORM

Posted on January 12, 2010
While many are assuming that the public won't accept immigration reform during this recession, polling numbers tell a different story. America's Voice commissioned recent polling that shows firm support for CIR: Sixty-Five Percent of Respondents Supported Congressional Action on Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2010...

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION FAILS TO E-VERIFY 19% OF ITS OWN EMPLOYEES

Posted on January 12, 2010
Wow, that's embarrassing. So much for leading by example. From Federal Computer Week: The Social Security Administration failed to perform required verifications of the Social Security numbers of 19 percent of its own new hires during a recent 18-month period, according to a new report from the agency?s inspector general, Patrick O'Carroll Jr...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: ANDRE PLATZER - COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Posted on January 11, 2010
Another member of Popular Science's Brilliant 10 list for this year is German-born Andre Platzer from Carnegie Mellon University. Platzer has developed KeYmaera, software that assists computer-controlled safety systems in avoiding catastrophic errors...

FEBRUARY VISA BULLETIN OUT

Posted on January 11, 2010
Not a lot of major forward progress in any category. Here is my summary of the February 2010 Visa Bulletin numbers: Family 1st - Advancement of worldwide, China and India numbers by two months to 1 JUN 2004. Mexico advances three weeks to 8 SEP 1992 and the Philippines moves up one month to 1 JAN 1994...

UNDERSTANDING IMMIGRATION BY GOING TO THE SOURCE

Posted on January 10, 2010
Long Island immigration advocate Ted Hesson is blogging from Mexico this week as he's on an exploratory trip Mexico to study what are the push and pull factors contributing to Mexicans migrating to the US. Worth keeping up with him.

NY TIMES: OFFICIALS HID TRUTH OF DETAINEE DEATHS

Posted on January 10, 2010
The New York Times carried on its front page this morning a Nina Bernstein article that will no doubt cause a shake up at Immigration and Customs Enforcement over what can only be described as a major scandal in the way the agency has dealt with sick detainees at the agency's detention facilities around the country...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: TING XU - MATERIALS SCIENTIST

Posted on January 10, 2010
Popular Science recently ran its 8th Annual Brilliant 10 list of the nation's most promising young scientists. And once again, several of them are immigrants helping to keep America in the forefront of innovation. Once is Ting Xu, a China native, who is transforming molecules into mini hard drives with massive storage capacity...

OPEN THREAD

Posted on January 09, 2010
I'm working on some new posts, but a reader correctly pointed out that it makes it hard to have conversations when a few days go by without a post from me. So I'm going to make sure I post an open thread post every so often so people can post in the comments anything that's on their minds.

CONSUMER ELECTRONIC ASSOCIATION WARNS AGAINST RESTRICTING THE MOVEMENT OF GLOBAL TALENT

Posted on January 07, 2010
The annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off this week in Las Vegas. This is the gadget wonderland I've attended for the last several years. Due to my father's illness, I decided to skip this year's show. But I'm avidly watching online for announcements of the year's best new innovations...

REPORT: IMMIGRATION REFORM COULD ADD $1.5 TRILLION TO GDP OVER TEN YEARS

Posted on January 07, 2010
Professor Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda of UCLA (and a former Immigrant of the Day) has authored a major report that has been released by the Center for American Progress and the Immigration Policy Center that shows that fixing the country's immigration system could produce massive economic benefits for the US...

MAYOR BLOOMBERG PLEDGES TO BECOME NATIONAL LEADER PROMOTING IMMIGRATION REFORM

Posted on January 05, 2010
Commendable.

THE TREK

Posted on January 04, 2010
The NY Times' Julia Preston reports on four students marching from Miami Dade College in South Florida to Washington, DC to draw attention to the plight of young people brought to this country by their parents at an early age who lack any kind of legal status and are facing a bleak future unless Congress passes the DREAM Act or an immigration reform bill...

HISPANIC CONGRESSMEN THREATEN TO BRING DOWN HEALTH CARE REFORM IF IMMIGRATION IGNORED

Posted on January 04, 2010
Now this is hardball.

ICE AGENTS POSING AS MORMON MISSIONARIES TO ARREST IMMIGRANTS?

Posted on December 31, 2009
A very serious accusation and one that could have a devastating effect on the LDS Church in Utah if it turns out to be true.

CHRISTMAS PLANE BOMBER CASE RAISES CONCERNS REGARDING VISITOR SCREENING

Posted on December 29, 2009
Like most of you, I have been following the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year old Nigerian man who attempted to ignite a bomb on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. As facts begin to emerge, we can now start to discuss the immigration issues that arise in the case...

AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND IMMIGRATION REFORM

Posted on December 28, 2009
New York Times religion reporter Samuel G. Freedman wrote an interesting article over the weekend on efforts in the pro-immigration community to reach out to African-Americans largely through the enlistment of support from African-American clergy. Some in the anti-immigrant camp have sought to sew the seeds of division by trying to convince African-Americans that immigrants are unfair competitors for jobs...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: RAJUL SHETH - PING PONG GURU

Posted on December 24, 2009
Often, when there is a great concentration of businesses focused on a specific industry in a particular geographic location, the area is called the "Silicon Valley" of and then you fill in the blank. That's a tribute to Silicon Valley in Northern California which is the home to many of America's great tech companies - Google, Apple, Intel, etc...

SCAMWATCH: CALIFORNIA PASTOR ACCUSED OF STUDENT VISA FRAUD

Posted on December 23, 2009
From the AP: Immigration officials have accused a Southern California pastor of helping foreigners fraudulently obtain student visas and handing out phony diplomas at a fake graduation ceremony on a campus where they never attended class. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday that 65-year-old pastor Samuel Chai Cho Oh surrendered to authorities Tuesday...

NURSE SHORTAGE GROWING DIRE WHILE BLACKOUT ON VISAS CONTINUES

Posted on December 22, 2009
Certain voices in the nursing community are trying to make the argument that there is no nursing shortage and we need to keep protectionist policies in place. But there has been a great deal compelling evidence pointing in only one direction for many years - a nurse shortage that is already bad and will grow much worse in decades to come...

IMMIGRANT ENFORCEMENT THROUGH THE ROOF

Posted on December 22, 2009
For the antis who are still making the tired argument that we need to enforce existing immigration laws before we can consider legalizing the millions of out of status immigrants in the US. This is one more piece of evidence that serious enforcement is happening.

H-1B CAP HIT FOR YEAR

Posted on December 22, 2009
The H-1B cap is probably a good barometer of what is happening in the economy, so tea leaf readers trying to figure out whether times are really getting better or not should take note. H-1B usage was anemic during the first several months after numbers became available in April...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: CARMEN HERRERA - ARTIST

Posted on December 21, 2009
The cover of today's New York Times tells the extraordinary story of Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera who has worked as an artist for decades and is finally enjoying real success. She's one of the hottest artists in New York and her paintings regularly sell for $30,000+...

THE THIRD LEG

Posted on December 21, 2009
When comprehensive immigration reform legislation gets going in Congress next month, you're going to hear anti-immigration folks say over and over again that we tried legalization and enforcement in the 80s and it didn't work. Three million workers were legalized and we got the whole I-9 system and it didn't solve the illegal immigration problem...

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