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Walls, DACA and Raids: What has happened in immigration since Trump’s inauguration?
Walls, DACA and Raids: What has happened in immigration since Trump’s inauguration?
Back in November, we made some predictions about what might occur in a Trump presidency as it relates to immigration.  Generally, we were very pessimistic and presumed that almost all areas of immigration would become...
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Client of the Month for September 2015- Aura Carrera
Client of the Month for September 2015- Aura Carrera
For September 2015, we are proud to present Aura Carrera of Heber City, Utah as our client of the month.  Her green card arrived last month and she is heading home to Guatemala for the...
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Cheer Caitlyn, But Learn About Nicoll and Marichuy
Cheer Caitlyn, But Learn About Nicoll and Marichuy
Much of the world rejoiced yesterday upon seeing the photos of Caitlyn Jenner's exquisite transformation on the cover of the June issue of Vanity Fair.  Much of the commentary I saw focused not so much...
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CIS Bureaucrats Union Joins ICE Bureaucrats Union in Opposing Immigration Reform
CIS Bureaucrats Union Joins ICE Bureaucrats Union in Opposing Immigration Reform
The day before the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the most significant piece of immigration legislation since 1996, the "President of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, the union representing 12,000 United States Citizenship &...
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An Open Letter to Rep. Spencer Bachus
An Open Letter to Rep. Spencer Bachus
 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgscE9lFZN4&w=560&h=315] Dear Congressman Bachus, Thank you very much for speaking out about the overuse of detention by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in civil proceedings to determine the removability of individuals in the U.S. ...
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The Leaked White House Immigration Bill: the Legalization Component
The Leaked White House Immigration Bill: the Legalization Component
It took only three years longer than promised—and a leak that may or may not have been intentional—but the White House has finally produced a legislative proposal to fix the immigration system. Dubbed the Comprehensive...
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Hey FAU!  Drop GEO!
Hey FAU! Drop GEO!
Yesterday, after receiving a gift of $6 million, Florida Atlantic University announced that it was renaming its stadium "The Geo Group Stadium," after the for-profit prison company, best known for operating detention facilities on behalf...
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The Whine of the ICE Bureaucrats
The Whine of the ICE Bureaucrats
It has been a tough week for the ICE bureaucrats who have sought to undermine the political leadership of this country to pursue their own restrictivist and nativist agenda.  Regular readers of this blog (my...
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Does President Obama want to drop the one year asylum rule?
Does President Obama want to drop the one year asylum rule?
  There is a single line in the President's immigration proposal that has escaped a lot of attention.  As the idiotic "back of the line" concept and the path to citizenship dominate the headlines, the...
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What is the Deal with the Immigration “Line?”
This morning, we had a chance to review the five page blueprint for immigration reform produced by a bipartisan group of eight Senators.  There is a lot to discuss on the blueprint, but one thing...
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What do Dostoyevsky and Sam from Zambia have in common?
What do Dostoyevsky and Sam from Zambia have in common?
On December 23, 1849, Fyodor Dostoevsky, who went on to become Russia's greatest novelist, and several other members of the so-called Petrachevsky Circle were taken out into the courtyard of the Semonyonov Prison in St....
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The Provisional Waiver and Removal Proceedings
The Provisional Waiver and Removal Proceedings
  Over the last few weeks we have answered dozens of questions about the provisional waiver.  One group of questions keeps appearing- questions about how people in removal proceedings or with a removal order can...
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The Immigration Industrial Complex
The Immigration Industrial Complex
The Migration Policy Institute recently released a study documenting that the U.S. government spent $18 billion on immigration enforcement, dwarfing the $14 million spent on other federal law enforcement agencies. The FBI, the DEA and...
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DACA, Provisional Waivers, and de Osorio?
DACA, Provisional Waivers, and de Osorio?
The publication of the rule allowing for processing of provisional waivers for unlawful presence in the United States was another act of administrative rule-making that the President has undertaken to make the immigration laws more...
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Protecting the Homeland
Protecting the Homeland
Ever heard of Mo Farah? If you watched the London Olympics last summer, the name likely rings a bell. Mohamed “Mo” Farah is a Somali-born British track and field superstar. He is the current Olympic...
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