The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced recently that it has redesigned the E-Verify system to make it easier for employers to verify whether or not individuals are authorized to work in the United States. E-Verify is a free, internet based based system, that allows participating employers to verify the employment eligibility of their employees. USCIS officials estimated that over 208,000 employers are registered users of  E-Verify, and, has [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported this past Friday that five lawsuits have been filed against the Arizona immigration law since its Governor signed it into law in April of this year.  The Governor was sued personally in four of those lawsuits. The law, which goes into effect on July 29th, requires law enforcement in the course of their duties, to question an individual’s immigration status [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported today that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to ban new contracts with companies headquartered in Arizona and, to review contracts that the county could cancel. The decision resulted in Los Angeles County to become the most recent governmental entity protest Arizona’s harsh new law criminalizing the presence of undocumented immigrants.  The city governments of Los [...]

The Houston Chronicle reported recently that thousands of people from around the country rallied in the Phoenix, AZ area last week to protest a new and harsh law that will take effect on July 29th enforcing the federal immigration laws on a state level.   Demonstrators called on the federal government to stop the state of Arizona from enforcing the new [...]

The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcment (USICE) reported today that agents arrested the owners and employees yesterday of 5 Arizona commercial shuttle transportation companies based on a year long investigation to identify and apprehend perpetrators of human smuggling.  Over 800 agents and officers from various federal, state and local law enforcement agencies carried out the arrests. The arrests were the result of the USICE’s heightened internal enforcement [...]

The New York Times reported yesterday that Texas Appleseed, a public interest law center and Akin Gump, a corporate law firm co-wrote a report that is scheduled to be released today concerning the due process rights of disabled immigrant detainees facing deportation. The report shows that the detainees, mostly from New York and other areas in the northeast, even some from mental [...]

The Los Angeles Times reported today that all inmates who are booked into the Orange County jail system will now have their immigration status checked through a new biometric identification program that was implemented yesterday.  The program started in late 2008, and is currently in use by over 120 counties in 16 states across the United States. The Los Angeles, [...]

The New York Times reported recently that the hiring records of the Gervais Family Farms in Bakersfield, Vermont were inspected as part of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (USICE’s) enforcement efforts to inspect the employment records of 1,000 businesses across the United States.  The businesses that were inspected were either known or suspected to have hired undocumented immigrants. The USICE imposes [...]

The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) reported this week that a man from California was arrested earlier this week and charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud. He was the mastermind of an immigration fraud scheme that involved foreign students enrolled at schools in the Southern California area including several junior colleges and, three California State University campuses. The [...]

The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) reported that the owner and employee of the Florida Language Institute (FLI) were arrested and charged with immigration fraud. Based on the USICE’s investigation, they discovered that the school sponsored non-immigrant foreign students and issued I-20 forms without requiring the students to maintain a full time course of study.  Maintaining a full time course [...]