Immigrant Activists Urge the President to Pass Immigration Reform
The Washington Times reported today that immigrant rights activists and their supporters are having a rally on March 21, 2010 at the National Mall in Washington, DC to pressure Congress to pass an immigration reform bill and urged the President to end deportations.
Immigrant rights groups and their supporters who voted for the President feel that they have lost patience with him and [...]
President Seeking Bipartisan Support for Immigration Reform
The Los Angeles Times reported late last week that President Obama has sought bipartisan support from Senators Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York and Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina despite a very uphill battle to convince lawmakers to come together and create legislation to overhaul our nation’s immigration laws.
The President is seeking to bring [...]
State of Arizona Close to Criminalizing the Presence of Undocumented Immigrants
The Orlando Sentinel reported today that anti-immigrant lawmakers in the Arizona Legislature banded together and introduced legislation to criminalize the presence of undocumented immigrants in their state.
If the legislation becomes law, Arizona would be the only state to criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants by means expanding the definition of trespassing. The law would state and local law enforcement to determine the immigration status [...]
Start Up Visa Act of 2010 Introduced in the Senate
Senators John Kerry and Richard Lugar introduced legislation last week to promote job creation and increase our nation’s ability to remain globally competitive. If the bill is signed into law, it would help foreign national entrepreneurs pursue a new way to immigrate to the U.S.
The Start Up Visa Act of 2010 would allow foreign nationals who are entrepreneurs to pursue an immigrant visa (green card) on a [...]
E-Verify System Still has Bugs
The Orlando Sentinel reported recently that the system both Congress and the President direct employers to use called E-Verify to combat the hiring of illegal immigrants, is actually failing to identify over half of the unauthorized workers it checks, a research company named Westat has found.
The research company found that E-Verify failed to detect so many illegal workers mainly because the system is [...]
