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Immigration Case Successes
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| Expedited Removal Order Vacated |
| Published Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| Our Canadian citizen client applied for Trade NAFTA status as a Management Consultant at the border in Washington State. Not only was the TN denied, More>> | | | | Deportation Charges Dismissed |
| Published Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| Our Canadian citizen client was issued an immigrant visa based upon his United States citizen father’s petition. When he presented himself for More>> | | | | Employment Based Green Card Petition Approved |
| Published Monday, August 18, 2008 |
| Our client is a U. S. corporation. Seven years ago it needed to fill the position of janitor. No U. S. workers were available. It located an Indian More>> | | | | Deportation Prevented: Client May Return to the United States |
| Published Wednesday, August 13, 2008 |
| Our South African client married a United States citizen, who filed for a “green card” for him. Unfortunately, the marriage did not work out and they More>> |
More > >U.S. Immigration Publications
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 | Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age |
| Published Monday, August 25, 2008 |
| | | Arrest, Detention, and Bond Procedures for Noncitizens Without Criminal Convictions |
| Published Wednesday, August 20, 2008 |
| | | Supreme Court Update |
| Published Wednesday, August 20, 2008 |
| | | USCIS Proposes Sreamlining Procedures for H-2B Program |
| Published Monday, August 18, 2008 |
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U.S. Immigration Resources
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U.S. Immigration News
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| Football fans may be delayed at border |
| Published Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| "Buffalo, N.Y. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials advise travelers to prepare for a potential increase in cross border travel in conjunction with the Buffalo Bills pre-season football game against the Detroit Lions on Thursday, August 28. It is expected that some of those attending the game will travel directly from Canada and others from Detroit to Buffalo through Canada. “We have planned for an increase in both vehicle and bus More>> | | | | Immigration: Too Hot for the Dems? |
| Published Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| "On the eve of the official nomination of presidential candidate Barack Obama, the son of an immigrant, some of the leading voices shaping the Democratic Party's immigration reform platform reveal a mix of reserved optimism and pragmatism.
While the Blue Dog Democrats -- a group of 47 moderate and conservative Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives -- support a position on immigration that bears more More>> | | | | ACLU Investigating Largest Immigration Raid In The Country |
| Published Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| ""We are deeply concerned by reports that workers at the factory where the raid occurred were segregated by race or ethnicity and interrogated, the factory was locked down for several hours, workers were denied access to counsel, and ICE failed to inform family members and lawyers following the raid where the workers were being jailed," said Mónica Ramírez, a staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project who has More>> | | | | Businesses Cite a Catch-22 After Miss. Immigration Raid |
| Published Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| "The arrests this week of nearly 600 immigrant workers at a manufacturing plant in Laurel, Miss., are fueling a national debate over a federal system to check new hires' work documents, a program whose expansion the Bush administration has made a cornerstone of its fight against illegal immigration."
Click here for more of this US immigration news update. | | | | Immigration debate grips Minn. city |
| Published Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| "Gary Green, a professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says many historically white towns in the region are grappling with similar issues. "There's no doubt that it's a threat to national identity," he says, but studies suggest that immigration "has a net positive economic impact on these towns, and probably socially as well.""
Click here for more of this US immigration More>> | | | | Fear Grips Immigrants After Largest Raid in U.S. History at Mississippi Plant |
| Published Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| "A day after the largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was too scared to send her son to school and worried about when she'd see her husband again."
Click here for more of this US immigration news update. | | | | U.S. immigration cops nab 595 in largest-ever raid |
| Published Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| "U.S. immigration agents have arrested 595 people at a Mississippi factory in what was the largest workplace enforcement raid in the United States to date, an immigration official said on Tuesday.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said federal agents arrested the workers in a raid at the Howard Industries Inc. factory in Laurel, Miss, on Monday,
"This is the largest targeted workplace enforcement More>> | | | | More>> | | |
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