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After White House Meetings, What?s Next for Immigration Reform? by Mary Giovagnoli
Posted on 12 Mar 2010 at 1:06pm In the midst of trying to wrap up health care, President Obama carved time out of his schedule yesterday to meet with reformers and key Senators on comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). After ye...

Congressional Members Call for Presidential Leadership and Bipartisanship on ... by Policy Center
Posted on 11 Mar 2010 at 3:13pm Expectations are running high when it comes to moving forward with comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). Apparently the White House is taking note of the concerns voiced by grassroots groups and...

Restrictionist Front Group Still Pushing Green Xenophobia by Walter Ewing
Posted on 10 Mar 2010 at 11:51am In a new report, Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR)?a front group for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)?regurgitates an argument as tired as it is flawed: that immigrati...

Wide Cast of Characters Discuss the Benefits of Legalization by Travis Packer
Posted on 9 Mar 2010 at 2:53pm While comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) remains stalled somewhere between the House, Senate, and the Administration, four noted experts were interviewed by the Council on Foreign Relations (CF...

Is President Obama Doing Enough to Move Immigration Reform? by Seth Hoy
Posted on 8 Mar 2010 at 3:21pm This week, President Obama is scheduled to meet with two key congressional players in the movement for immigration reform?Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC)?who are working ...


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A Separate Reality Posted on 11 Mar 2010 at 10:01am  
Images: (c)iStockphoto/Simon McConico; (c)iStockphoto/helenecanada

There was a happy ending recently in the case of a man from China who was to be deported under rules set by an immigration law pa...

Immigrants ? Creating the Jobs Americans Want to Do Posted on 5 Mar 2010 at 5:18am

The Christian Science Monitor the other day published a story, “Who’s creating US jobs? Mexicans.”  The story noted an increase in Mexican entrepreneurs coming to the U.S. in order to escape drug...

Our Time to Fight for Immigration Reform is Now Posted on 25 Feb 2010 at 11:49am

Democrats have become the party of “I can’t” while Republicans have become the party of “I won’t.” But the overwhelming majority of Americans (conservatives, independents and everyone else) is sa...

Can Washington Govern? Posted on 25 Feb 2010 at 7:57am

A question on the minds of many these days is, “Can Washington govern?”

That question has been the subject of much comment in the last week since the surprise announcement by Indiana Senator Evan ...

Big Tent, Little Tent Posted on 24 Feb 2010 at 8:00am

An interesting pair of articles appeared in the Washington Post on February 21. 

In the first, Dana Milbank reported on the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, where each year Republi...

Clarissa Martinez De Castro: Mr. President, Congress: The Time for Immigrati... by immigrationprof
Posted on 13 Mar 2010 at 7:43am For an argument on the need to ACT, not talk more, about immigration reform from a leading voice from National Council of La Raza on Huffington Post, click here. KJ

ICE Raids in Maryland by immigrationprof
Posted on 13 Mar 2010 at 7:14am As the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform movement keeps getting delayed, ICE raids continue. We need reform. As you can see from this article below, the justification for ICE raids is ...

Has the Time Come for the Push for Immigration Reform? by immigrationprof
Posted on 12 Mar 2010 at 9:06am As we reported yesterday, the much-awaited meetings with Senators Schumer and Graham were slated for yesterday. Julia Preston of the N.Y. Times reports that "President Obama said Thursday that he w...

President's Immigration Summit Today by immigrationprof
Posted on 11 Mar 2010 at 8:06am There has been lots of buzz and chatter about immigration reform this week. It looks like the long-delayed meeting between President Obama and Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsay Graham (R-...

Administrative Changes Can Benefit Immigration System, David Martin Says by immigrationprof
Posted on 10 Mar 2010 at 11:04am From UVA Today: "Though comprehensive legislation would provide the best fix for the country's immigration system, administrative reforms can accomplish much in the interim, University of Virginia ...


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The push for comprehensive immigration reform begins. by justin
Posted on 11 Jan 2009 at 8:33pm So does the push back. Religious and labor leaders called upon Congress and President-elect Obama to pass a comprehensive immigration package this year and said that the U.S. economy could not be ...

New immigration site seeks to dispel anti-immigrant by justin
Posted on 18 Nov 2008 at 12:41pm myths and push for comprehensive immigration reform. See Immigration Impact for more.

Summary of Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 by justin
Posted on 17 May 2007 at 4:41pm (This information is from the internet so it may be of dubious reliability and I will correct it as needed but it’s better than nothing folks!) Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 Ti...

Senate immigration bill, including a new ?Z? visa & new ?Y? visa, passes in ... by justin
Posted on 17 May 2007 at 4:18pm A small group of senators, working with the White House, have come up with a 300+ page immigration “reform” bill that they say will tighten border security and will allow millions of undocumented i...

State of the Union 2007: Bush pushes immigration reform by justin
Posted on 23 Jan 2007 at 7:49pm In tonight’s State of the Union address President Bush again pushed for comprehensive immigration reform. With a Democratic Congress in Washington and with the spanking that the GOP received from H...


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Cal. Ct. App. on fugitive disentitlement "An appellate court possesses the inherent power to dismiss the appeal of a criminal defendant who is a fugitive from justice. In this case, the People ask us to extend the appellate disentitlement...

Cyrus Mehta on Kazarian "The recent decision in Kazarian v. USCIS ... goes a long way in discrediting the circularity argument that the USCIS often deploys to shoot down petitions filed under the extraordinary ability cat...

AAO Hardship Victory Lisa Brodyaga writes: "AAO victory on an I-601 for a woman with two shoplifting convictions might be useful for the reasoning regarding hardship to family members, and citation to 9th Cir. cases!"

Business owners push Obama on immigration reform "The proponents believe immigration reform will help stimulate the nation's shaky economy, including the housing market. "The majority of Realtors support immigration reform because immigrants are ...

CIR needs GOP backing "President Obama said Thursday that he would proceed with an overhaul of the immigration system this year if he could attract substantial Republican support. But a leading Republican who supports ...


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