September 10, 2010 By ADAM ENTOUS And NATHAN HODGE WASHINGTON—The Obama administration sees the drug-related violence sweeping Mexico as a growing threat to U.S. national security and has launched a broad review of steps the military and intelligence community could take to help combat what some U.S. officials describe as a narcoinsurgency.
Read more →By Miriam Jordan, Walls Street Journal Birthright Repeal Likely to Increase Illegal Population A denial of birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants would end up increasing the size of the nation’s illegal population, according to a new study released Wednesday. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704362404575480041442274212.html
Read more →My friend Raed on an immigration update in Houston, TX – August 25, 2010: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4321184/non-threatening-illegal-immigrants-get-off-the-hook/
Read more →Feds moving to dismiss some deportation cases Critics assail the plan as a bid to create a kind of backdoor ‘amnesty’ By SUSAN CARROLL Copyright 2010, HOUSTON CHRONICLE Aug. 24, 2010, 9:00PM —————————————————————————————————————— Notes from Ruby: My friends and fellow immigration attorneys in Houston, Raed Gonzalez and John Nechman, are quoted in this article which [...]
Read more → WASHINGTON—On Aug. 13, 2010, President Obama signed into law Public Law 111-230, which contains provisions to increase certain H-1B and L-1 petition fees. Effective immediately, Public Law 111-230 requires the submission of an additional fee of $2,000 for certain H-1B petitions and $2,250 for certain L-1A and L-1B petitions postmarked on or after Aug. [...]
Read more →American Immigration Council July 28, 2010 Washington, D.C. – Today, Phoenix district court judge Susan Bolton enjoined key provisions of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB 1070. The judge recognized that the federal government has primary authority over making and enforcing immigration law, and that while states have limited authority in this arena, they cannot interfere [...]
Read more →Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Be Unconstitutional, Impractical, Expensive, Complicated and Would Not Stop Illegal Immigration A June 15, 2010 Immigration Policy Center Article discusses a hot topic
Read more →PHOENIX, Ariz., June 16, 2010, State Sen. Proposes Bill That Would Deny U.S. Citizenship to Children Born in Arizona to Illegal Immigrants Your only problem is the Constitution, dear Senator. I agree with the legal scholars, “the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.” Wow!
Read more →38 Suspected Illegal Immigrants Rescued Police Say People Were Living In Deplorable Conditions
Read more →I got my June 28, 2010 Forbes issue and its headline title is ‘Open the Borders: the Case for (and against) extreme immigration reform. Here is a special report titled Let them In: Opening America’s borders is morally right, economically beneficial–and would even make America safer. Although I have yet to read all the immigration-related [...]
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