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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: May 19, 2013 at 17:50:14

King: Immigration Reform a Democratic Plot

Posted on May 19, 2013
There's a reason the GOP leadership is hoping immigration reform finally moves this year. They're brand with Hispanic voters is terrible and they need to show that they're a party that has a place for this fast growing segment of the electorate. So they must have cringed when they saw this story on CNN: A prominent House conservative said Tuesday that the immigration reform bill under consideration in the Senate is part of an ongoing plot to build a massive new Democratic voting bloc...

June 2013 State Department Visa Bulletin Rundown

Posted on May 18, 2013
Thanks to Nicollette Davis at our firm for summing up the latest Visa Bulletin: June Visa Bulletin Summary: Family 1st - World numbers, China and India advanced 3 weeks to 22 April 06; Mexico advanced 1 week to 15 August 93; the Philippines jumped 7 months to 01 January 00...

Deal Appears to Have Been Reached by House Gang of Eight

Posted on May 17, 2013
There have been multiple news reports in multiple well-regarded publications painting different pictures on the state of play with the House negotiators on a comprehensive reform bill. But a picture is starting to emerge. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday "Bipartisan House Group Reaches Broad Immigration Deal...

Study: Immigration Reform Would Dramatically Help Housing Market

Posted on May 16, 2013
Another in the long line of studies touting the benefits of reform.

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Day 3 of Senate Judiciary Markup Begins

Posted on May 16, 2013
I'll be keeping an eye on the hearings and preparing a summary of the approved amendments hopefully tonight or in the am tomorrow.

Summary of Day's Amendments to Senate Bill 744 - 5/16/2013

Posted on May 16, 2013
Title IV was finished and the Senate Judiciary Committee moved on to Title III dealing with interior enforcement. The EB-5 amendment was passed with little discussion, but is fairly massive - 31 pages - and will profoundly change that program. Here's my summary of the changes passed in today's markup...

Summary of the Day's Amendments to Senate Bill 744

Posted on May 14, 2013
The Senate Judiciary Committee began this morning wrapping up Title I amendments before moving on the non-immigrant visas in Title IV. They'll pick up there on Thursday and then will try to get in to the E-Verify provisions. Here is my summary of the 15 amendments that passed today...

Advocacy Groups Call for Suspension of Deportations for Potential RPIs

Posted on May 13, 2013
From the NY Times' Julia Preston: Labor, Latino and immigrant advocate groups called on President Obama on Monday to suspend deportations of illegal immigrants who could be eligible for a pathway to citizenship under a bipartisan bill to overhaul the immigration system that is under consideration in the Senate...

Which Health Care Benefits are Open to Immigrants if the Reform Bill Passes?

Posted on May 13, 2013
The National Immigration Law Center has an excellent analysis of what health care benefits are open to immigrants if the comprehensive immigration reform bill becomes law.

Advocacy Groups Call for Suspension of Deportations for Potential RPIs

The Photo Tool: Will it Be the Beginning of Government Tracking Everyone

Posted on May 12, 2013
Wired Magazine's David Kravets raises some serious questions tied to the new E-Verify biometric requirements in the proposed immigration legislation. How serious of a threat to Americans' liberties does it pose? Talk amongst yourselves.

Issa To Be a Big Player on House Side

Posted on May 11, 2013
Darryl Issa (R-CA)has generally not been a major player on immigration. The House Oversight Committee Chairman has been tasked with crafting a skilled immigration bill that will be considered by the House Judiciary Committee. The news is generally considered good for those in favor of skilled worker immigration...

American Conservative Union Endorses Immigration Reform

Posted on May 10, 2013
The ACU, the oldest membership-based conservative group in the US, has issued a letter strongly endorsing immigration reform. One more sign that immigration reform WILL happen this year. Here's the ACU statement: ?President Obama and the liberals in the Senate have planned for a long time to use executive power and push legislation that would legalize those immigrants here illegally quickly with no border security, no interior security, and no reform of our legal immigration process...

Heritage Immigration Study Author Resigns

Posted on May 10, 2013
From the Washington Post: Jason Richwine, the co-author of a controversial immigration study released this week by the Heritage Foundation, tells Post Politics that he has resigned his position with the organization. ?Yes, that?s right,? Richwine wrote in a brief e-mail...

Senate Immigration Bill Amendment Process Begins

Posted on May 09, 2013
You can see the text of the hundreds of introduced amendments here. You can watch the hearings live here.

Summary of All Amendments to Immigration Bill Approved on 5/9 by Senate Immigration Subcommittee

Posted on May 09, 2013
The Senate Judiciary Committee met all day and considered 36 amendments to S. 744. Some were clearly poison pills deisgned to make the bill unpassable and all of those failed. 21 were passed. The day began by passing a technical corrections amendment that replaced all of the originally introduced S...

Anti-Immigrant Heritage Foundation Issues Surprising Report Saying Immigration Costly

Posted on May 08, 2013
I know. I couldn't believe it either. No credible economists are backing up the study claiming that the immigration bill will cost zillions. I'm not going to waste time critiquing this joke of a report since so many others have already done so. I'll just remind readers that there have been many, many other better studies saying jsut the opposite...

Heritage Study Co-Author Opposed Hispanic Immigration Due to Their Low IQ

Posted on May 08, 2013
The Heritage report is easy enough to criticize just on its face. But when you learn a little about the person behind the report, you get a better picture of what is happening here.

Germans Prosecuting Alleged Nazi Camp Guard Deported in 1983

Posted on May 07, 2013
The US deported Hans Lipshis in 1983 after it concluded he lied about his Nazi past. But the German government never prosecuted him because they could not confirm the role he played during his employment at the Auschwitz death camp. Now they have finally arrested Lipshis arguing that even if they don't know precisely what role he played, he can be prosecuted as an accessory...

Amendment-palooza

Posted on May 07, 2013
The antis have a strategy of trying to slow down CIR by proposing a jillion amendments. Most are in the gimme a break category and have no chance. National Journal has a good run down of the politics at work here. One test will be regarding amendments that change some of the negotiated major provisions of the bill on issues like guest workers and the legalization program...

NYT: US Silicon Valley Companies Responsible for Anti-Indian Staffing Company Rules in Senate Bill

Posted on May 05, 2013
The Times has an interesting piece about the background of the H-1B provisions in the Senate immigration bill. In particular, the role that some of the largest American tech companies played not only in getting the H-1B cap raised, but in making it much more difficult for IT staffing companies - particularly the big Indian IT staffing firms - to be able claim numbers in the cap...

Goodlatte and House Gang of Eight Could Both Come out Winners on Immigration Bill

Posted on May 03, 2013
The AP has an interesting article mainly profiling Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), the chair of the House Judiciary Committee. The story raises an intresting possibility - namely that Goodlatte could make the hardliners happy by considering immigration reform in a piecemeal fashion and possibly only approve one or two bills that avoid some of the provisions that will have a hard time passing...

New NFAP Report Challenges Wisdom of Proposed H-1B Restrictions

Posted on May 02, 2013
Senators Durbin and Grassley have succeeded in slipping in a number of foolish protectionist provisions in S.744 that will impose all sorts of new taxes and disruptive restrictions that will make the H-1B program a lot less efficient. The provisions will also probably result in the US being sued under the GATS, the world trade in services treaty...

LA Times and Denver Post Drop "Illegal Immigrant" Term

Posted on May 02, 2013
The dominoes continue to fall on this issue. Here is the LA Times explanation. And the Denver Post.

Supreme Court Strikes Another Nail in the Coffin of Alabama Immigration Law

Posted on April 29, 2013
From the National Immigration Law Center: Supreme Court Rejects Alabama?s Request to Review the State?s Anti-immigrant Law Eleventh Circuit Appeals Court Ruling Blocking Law?s Criminalizing Acts of Kindness Remains in Place WASHINGTON ? The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected the state of Alabama?s request to review a provision of the state?s anti-immigrant law that was blocked by the U...

Paul Ryan Taking on Rubio's Pro-Immigration Role in the House

Posted on April 25, 2013
As strong as Marco Rubio has been on pushing immigration reform in the Senate, former VP presidential candidate Paul Ryan looks to exceed those efforts in the House, according to this by Benjy Sarlin in Talking Points Memo.

House Judiciary Committee to Consider Piecemeal Immigration Bills

Posted on April 25, 2013
House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Immigration Subcommittee Chair Trey Gowdy (R-SC) held a joint press briefing today to announce they would not wait on the House Gang of Eight and would consider individual immigration bills on different aspects of reform...

Cato Institute Immigration Program

Posted on April 24, 2013
The Cato folks have posted the video of the program at the Capitol today in which I participated. I talked about sections of the bill I liked that the media hasn't discussed. Alex and Tim, the other panelists talked about the guest worker provisions as well as why immigration reform is important to protecting our homeland security...

Texas Notarios Fined Nearly $1 Million in Civil Action

Posted on April 24, 2013
Thanks to my friend Paul Parsons in Austin for sending this. A notario outfit in Texas has been hit with a $1,000,000 judgment based on providing fraudulent immigration services. These types of people have been around for a while and they tend to come out of the woodwork when we get closer to any kind of change in the law...

Jeb Bush Discusses Deportation of Housekeeper

Posted on April 24, 2013
22 years ago, Jeb Bush's father was the President, but his status as First Son did not prevent immigration agents from showing up at his family residence and arresting the family's housekeeper who was later deported. Bush cites the deportation as having raised his consciousness about the country's immigration problems...

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