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		<title>Obama administration looking to change waiver procedure</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2012/01/06/obama-administration-looking-to-change-waiver-procedure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a common issue arising in the area of immigration law. A US citizen marries someone in the United States who is here unlawfully and because they entered without a visa they must return to their home country if they want to obtain a green card. In most instances that means that the foreign spouse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remarkable movement in immigration related same-sex marriage issues.</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2011/03/29/remarkable-movement-in-immigration-related-same-sex-marriage-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the adjudications context: The USCIS has provided internal guidance that filings based on same-sex marriages are to be held in abeyance rather than rejected pending the outcome of the DOMA activity. What that means is that even if the I-485 isn&#8217;t adjudicated right away it&#8217;s possible to get employment authorization and proof of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOMA, Same-Sex Marriage, &amp; Immigration Benefits</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2011/03/03/doma-same-sex-marriage-immigration-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2011/03/03/doma-same-sex-marriage-immigration-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the Obama administration decided that it will no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. The Defense of Marriage Act states that federal policy is that marriage is between one man and one woman. Therefore, despite a general USCIS policy that states that marriages which are valid in the jurisdiction in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utah Attorney General investigates breach of private</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2010/07/16/utah-attorney-general-investigates-breach-of-private/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2010/07/16/utah-attorney-general-investigates-breach-of-private/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[records to out &#8220;illegal immigrants&#8221; which included posting due dates of pregnant women. &#8220;Two employees with the Department of Workforce Services have been put on leave after an investigation revealed that they apparently accessed records on hundreds of Utah residents to compile a list of 1,300 names of people purportedly in the country illegally. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right-Wingers Freak about National ID Card</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2010/03/11/right-wingers-freak-about-national-id-card/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2010/03/11/right-wingers-freak-about-national-id-card/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Undocumented immigration is a problem. It&#8217;s not a problem that people are migrating here. That&#8217;s normal. It&#8217;s a problem because it&#8217;s a sign that the system is not responding quickly enough to migrants and economic forces. Right-wingers think it&#8217;s a problem because the undocumented are terrorists, job stealers, drug pushers, welfare cheats, or some other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lou Dobbs to quit CNN</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/11/11/lou-dobbs-to-quit-cnn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lou Dobbs, a man who regularly peddled xenophobic anti-immigrant smears based on lies and fictions and treated hate groups as legitimate sources is leaving CNN. Rumor is he&#8217;s heading to Fox. Or running for President. Who knows. However, what is clear is that CNN and immigrants will be better off now that he departed. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfortunate bigotry and xenophobia from CNBC business writer.</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/11/03/unfortunate-bigotry-and-xenophobia-from-cnbc-business-writer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/11/03/unfortunate-bigotry-and-xenophobia-from-cnbc-business-writer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article titled &#8220;Marathon&#8217;s Headline Win Is Empty&#8221; CNBC business writer, Darren Rovell, claims that the winner, Meb Keflezighi, a naturalized citizen who was born in Eritrea but has been in the US since he was 12 is a &#8220;ringer&#8221; so running fans shouldn&#8217;t be all that excited that an American won the NY [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick note: Senator Durbin has reintroduced the Dream Act</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/04/09/quick-note-senator-durbin-has-reintroduced-the-dream-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/04/09/quick-note-senator-durbin-has-reintroduced-the-dream-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contact your local representative to show your support for the Dream Act so we can get it passed this year!]]></description>
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		<title>Sheriff Arpaio being investigated for civil rights violations stemming from allegations of racial profiling</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/03/11/sheriff-arpaio-being-investigated-for-civil-rights-violations-stemming-from-allegations-of-racial-profiling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/03/11/sheriff-arpaio-being-investigated-for-civil-rights-violations-stemming-from-allegations-of-racial-profiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice is investigating Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, known for parading immigrants in chains to his &#8220;tent city&#8221;, for racial profiling. The DOJ is investigating whether or not deputies are engaged in &#8220;patterns or practices of discriminatory police practices and unconstitutional searches and seizures.&#8221; (how could they not be if pretty much the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICE clearly racial profiling to fill quotas.</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/02/18/ice-clearly-racial-profiling-to-fill-quotas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/02/18/ice-clearly-racial-profiling-to-fill-quotas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A story in the Washington Post exposes the Immigration and Customs Enforcement National Fugitive Operations Program &#8211; a program that received over $600 million from congress &#8211; as a federally funded racial profiling operation. The program which, as it is named, is intended to be used to round up fugitives, is an abject failure by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Napolitano: All enforcement all the time.</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/02/17/napilitano-all-enforcement-all-the-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/02/17/napilitano-all-enforcement-all-the-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newly appointed Secretary of the DHS, Janet Napolitano (on NPR), shows that there will be little change between the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration with regards to immigration policy. She&#8217;s for a border fence &#8211; in places where physically appropriate &#8211; but thinks the border needs to be more militarized (more boots on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Friedman: Expand immigration to keep the US afloat</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/02/12/tom-friedman-expand-immigration-to-keep-the-us-afloat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/02/12/tom-friedman-expand-immigration-to-keep-the-us-afloat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Friedman has an op-ed that may seem counterintuitive to some. Referencing a statement by Shekhar Gupta of the Indian Express.. &#8220;All you need to do is grant visas to two million Indians, Chinese and Koreans. We will buy up all the subprime homes. We will work 18 hours a day to pay for them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second thoughts on local enforcement of federal immigration laws.</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/02/12/second-thoughts-on-local-enforcement-of-federal-immigration-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/02/12/second-thoughts-on-local-enforcement-of-federal-immigration-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some state &#038; local governments are having second thoughts about trying to control immigration through the use of local laws as the cost has proven to be prohibitive and the measures a PR nightmare. An example of some of the thinking that should have been done beforehand: &#8220;Republican state Rep. Stephen Clark, author of one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant Detention as a Business Model</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/02/10/immigrant-detention-as-a-business-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2009/02/10/immigrant-detention-as-a-business-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It probably comes as little shock to anyone paying attention that the prison system in the US is big business. It&#8217;s quite profitable and growing every day. It even has it&#8217;s own lobbyists. It&#8217;s not just US citizens who are being used as cash cows, immigrants are being sucked into this business as well. According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If the Democrats take back the House expect immigration relief. In fact, start preparing for it now.</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2006/10/28/if-the-democrats-take-back-the-house-expect-immigration-relief-in-fact-start-preparing-for-it-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2006/10/28/if-the-democrats-take-back-the-house-expect-immigration-relief-in-fact-start-preparing-for-it-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The midterm elections are extraordinarily important this time around. For a variety of reasons, not the least of which being immigration reform, it is very important that the Democrats win the House this year. The Republican controlled House of Representatives has approached immigration with an eye on enforcement only. The more balanced and thoughtful Senate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council on Foreign Relations article on immigration</title>
		<link>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2006/10/24/council-on-foreign-relations-article-on-immigration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrandolphlaw.com/blog/2006/10/24/council-on-foreign-relations-article-on-immigration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: The United States is far less divided on immigration than the current debate would suggest. An overwhelming majority of Americans want a combination of tougher enforcement and earned citizenship for the 12 million illegal immigrants in the country. Washington&#8217;s challenge is to translate this consensus into sound legislation that will start to repair the [...]]]></description>
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