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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.
By Greg Siskind

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Last Entry: March 30, 2011 at 17:55:32

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: MIRZA TIHIR - ENTREPRENEUR

Posted on December 20, 2009
Dr. Mirza Tihir is a true angel to the refugees he serves in his town of Syracuse, New York. And he certainly can relate to their story as he too is a refugee. Dr. Tihic lost more than 60 relatives to the "ethnic cleansing" in Serbia in the 1990s including his grandfather...

THE SISKIND SUMMARY: A SECTION BY SECTION REVIEW OF THE GUTIERREZ IMMIGRATION REFORM BILL

Posted on December 18, 2009
I've been working on this 60 page summary of the 643 page Gutierrez bill since I got it two days ago so make no guarantees that it is perfect given the turnaround time. I hope folks find it useful. Summary of HR 4321 - The Gutierrez Immigration Bill -

TEXT OF HR 4321 - THE GUTIERREZ COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM BILL

Posted on December 18, 2009
If you care to read this 643 page bill, here is the complete text. Text of HR 4321 - The Gutierrez Immigration Reform Bill -

CERTAIN ASYLUM APPLICANTS WILL NO LONGER BE DETAINED

Posted on December 17, 2009
The AP is reporting that the White House will alter their policies and will stop detaining asylum seekers who have a credible fear of persecution in their home countries. Applicants who pass a credible fear screening and can prove their identities will be released in the US...

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SCAMWATCH

Posted on December 16, 2009
A Pennsylvania staffing firm is accused of filing work visas for non-existent workers. Texas twin brothers are sentenced for selling phony visas to 88 Indian workers. Man accused of posing as an immigration lawyer to represent clients in immigration court.

FUGITIVE WORKED AT ATLANTA USCIS OFFICE

Posted on December 15, 2009
This hardly inspires confidence. Hat tip to Robert Gard for the link.

YOU WANT TO CREATE JOBS IN THE US? HOW DARE YOU!

Posted on December 15, 2009
A friendly reader in NY sent this story from CNNMoney.com. It talks about the Vivek Wadhwa entrepreneur visa, but the set up story about Internet entrepreneur at the beginning tells you a lot about what's wrong with our current system. By the way, the story links to a new grassroots web site www...

NAFSA REPORT: MAKE SURE CIR DOESN'T LEAVE OUT NEEDED STUDENT VISA REFORMS

Posted on December 15, 2009
The fine folks at NAFSA have issued a report reminding people why the US needs to retain its commitment to international education and needs to fix many aspects of the current system. This sums up the importance of the subject: All prudent steps must be taken to prevent another act of mass terrorism on American soil...

ANOTHER CHARITY BARS KIDS OF IMMIGRANTS FROM GETTING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

Posted on December 15, 2009
Lovely. Sad to see this happening in my home state. [UPDATE: The LA Salvation Army has dropped the no toys for immigrants' kids policy.]

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: TOMOAKI KATO - SURGEON

Posted on December 15, 2009
The New York Times today reports on a surgery that is heroic in scope. Japanese-born Tomoaki Kato, a surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia led a 43-hour operation to remove a massive tumor(the size of a football) that had engulfed the liver and other vital organs of a 59 year old man who had been told the tumor was inoperable...

GUTIERREZ IMMIGRATION REFORM BILL INTRODUCED

Posted on December 15, 2009
Still waiting on the actual text, but here's a summary from the folks at the Immigration Policy Center.

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: KATI MARTIN - JOURNALIST

Posted on December 14, 2009
I heard a fascinating interview of Kati Marton by Bob Edwards this weekend and am going to buy her new book Enemies of the People. The Hungarian-born Ms. Marton is a former ABC News reporter and NPR international correspondent. Journalism is in her blood...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: MARIA HINOJOSA - JOURNALIST

Posted on December 13, 2009
Congratulations to Mexican-born journalist Maria Hinojosa who was just awarded the Department of Homeland Security's "Outstanding American By Choice Award." Ms. Hinojosa is familiar to many Americans after working on CNN for a number of years. She's also a correspondent on PBS and host of NPR's Latino USA show.

IMMIGRATION DETENTIONS SKYROCKET

Posted on December 13, 2009
More evidence that enforcement efforts are in high gear: The number of individuals held in custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the just-ended FY 2009 is now estimated to have reached 369,483 detainees, more than twice what the total was in FY 1999...

JANUARY VISA BULLETIN OUT

Posted on December 12, 2009
Here is my take on the latest Visa Bulletin. More forward movement in the family visa categories. A little forward movement in the employment numbers. Here are the highlights: Family 1st - Advancement of worldwide, China and India numbers by nearly two years tp 01 April 2004...

GUTIERREZ TO INTRODUCE REFORM BILL NEXT WEEK

Posted on December 11, 2009
Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) will introduce a major immigration reform bill on December 15th. This is not going to be the THE House bill, but the press release showing the supporters of the bill is impressive and indicates that Gutierrez will likely have an important role negotiating the final language...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: JAMES PATRICK O'DONNELL - VETERAN

Posted on December 11, 2009
The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports on today's citizenship swearing in of Irish-born James Patrick O'Donnell. Mr. O'Donnell immigrated to the US at the age of 4 in 1926 and fought for our country in World War II and won a Bronze Battle Star. In 1987, Mr...

IMMIGRANT HIGH SCHOOL NAMED NATION'S BEST PUBLIC SCHOOL

Posted on December 11, 2009
Wow! Congratulations to Newcomers High School in Long Island City, Queens, New York which is ranked #6 in US News and World Report's list of the 100 best high schools in America and tops among the 12 public schools that made the list. Newcomers is a school which only accepts students who arrived in the country within the past year...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: JOHN TU - ENTREPRENEUR

Posted on December 11, 2009
Chinese-born John Tu is the co-founder of Kingston Technology, the data storage company. Kingston makes things like SD and CF cards as well as USB flash drives. Tu sold a substantial interest in the company in 1996 for $1.5 billion and is now #91 on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans.

WITH THANKS

Posted on December 10, 2009
I just wanted to express my appreciation to all who sent condolences this past week. It has meant a lot to me. My father was an amazing person and it was a shock losing him at the relatively young age of 67 to melanoma. Aside from being a great dad, he was legendary in his field of marketing and gave me a lot of great advice over the years including encouraging me to take the risk of setting up my own law practice and launching one of the first Internet-focused law practices in the country...

ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP: BORDER WALL COULD HURT ENDANGERED SPECIES

Posted on December 10, 2009
I don't usually pick up a lot of immigration news from Popular Science Magazine (which I've read since I was a kid). But they did report on concerns from Defenders of Wildlife that the wall could interfere with the habitat or migration of forty endangered or threatened species like jaguars and ocelots.

CENSUS ANALYSIS SHOWS IMMIGRANTS CONTINUE TO ACHIEVE AT HIGH RATE

Posted on December 10, 2009
The New York Times reports that a Census Bureau analysis of successive generations of immigrants shows that today's immigrants continue to follow the pattern of prior generations. Second generation immigrants continue to perform very well in terms of income and education.

SCAMWATCH: VISA FRAUD SCEME BROKEN UP IN BRAZIL

Posted on December 10, 2009
Eleven people arrested in a scheme that raked in an estimated $50,000,000. Here are details from the LA Times: Authorities arrested 11 people Monday in an alleged U.S. work-visa scam that raked in more than $50 million from thousands of Brazilians since 2002...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: SHEBA GEORGE - SOCIOLOGIST

Posted on December 10, 2009
The San Jose Mercury News this week profiled Sheba George, Ph. D., an Indian-born sociologist who is the daughter of an Indian nurse, who is focusing her research on Indian nurses in the United States and how they can better integrate in to the American health care system...

REPORT URGES LIBERALIZING H-1B QUOTAS, BUT ALSO TOUGHER ENFORCEMENT OF RULES

Posted on December 10, 2009
The Center for American Progress has released a report that urges an end to the "arbitrary restrictions" on H-1B visas and replacing the 65,000 quota with a market-based system where numbers rise in a strong economy and drop in a weak one. The report also recommends stronger enforcement mechanisms to prevent fraud and abuse.

ANTI-IMMIGRANT WASHINGTON TIMES LAYING OFF 40% OF STAFF

Posted on December 10, 2009
The paper is planning on cutting most of its beat reporting and become a free, opinion-oriented publication. The Washington Times is generally considered to have the most anti-immigration coverage of any newspaper in the country. The newspaper is likely now to have much less influence in DC.

FRANKEN GRILLS NAPOLITANO ON IMPRISONMENT OF ASYLUM-SEEKERS

Posted on December 10, 2009
Senator Al Franken (D-MN) asked DHS Secretary Napolitano about this during this week's Senate testimony by the Secretary. This policy is one of the more shameful parts of our asylum system. The US regularly imprisons individuals seeking asylum until their cases are heard by judges...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: CLARK BLATTEIS - SCIENTIST/SURVIVOR

Posted on December 10, 2009
A few months back I wrote about Senate Resolution 111 which recognized June 6, 2009 as a day to remember one of the most shameful days in American history. That was the 70th anniversary of the day that the US turned away the ship S.S. St. Louis from docking in Florida...

SUPREME COURT DECISION USERS TERM "UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT" FOR FIRST TIME

Posted on December 10, 2009
In a unanimous decision penned by new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the nation's highest court used the term "undocumented immigrant" instead of "illegal alien". The latter term had been used in dozens of opinions in the past. The case only tangentially related to immigration issues, by the way.

HOUSE COMMITTEE HOLDS HEARING ON DETENTION STANDARDS

Posted on December 10, 2009
The House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing today regarding the often deplorable conditions at ICE detention facilities around the country. The folks at the National Immigration Forum weigh in on the hearing.

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