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ICE To Pay $350,000 to U.S. Immigrants for Wrongful Raid
22 Feb 2012 / ICE, Immigration Enforcement, NewsThe U.S. has agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by eleven immigrants as a result of their arrests after ICE conducted a series of immigration raids in their houses in 2007. The immigrants involved will not be deported. This is the largest settlement ever paid by the United States and immigration lawyers are touting the court settlement as a landmark victory [...]
ICE Detainee Commits Suicide
03 Mar 2011 / Immigration Enforcement, NewsA Chinese national in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since Feb. 14 passed away on Feb. 23 at the Lock Haven Hospital in Lock Haven, Pa., of an apparent suicide. On Feb. 11, Qi Gen Guo, was encountered by ICE after his arrest by Pennsylvania State Police (PSP). On Feb. 14, [...]
First Group of Haitians Deported Since Last Year’s Earthquake
21 Jan 2011 / Announcements, Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, NewsThe Orlando Sentinel reported today that the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) deported yesterday, 26 Haitians who have criminal convictions. This was the first group of Haitians that have been deported since the U.S. government placed a hold on deportations soon after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that ravaged that country last year. The Haitian-American community in Florida and the immigration advocates who [...]
TPS Program for Haitians Successful
20 Jan 2011 / Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, News, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)The New York Times reported today that the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) received over 53,000 applications from Haitians seeking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of which, the agency approved a majority of those applications. Tuesday, January 18, 2011 was the deadline for Haitians to apply for TPS. The program granted benefits to certain Haitians that were in the U.S. on the day of the earthquake (January 12, [...]
Proposal of Arizona Style Immigration Legislation Not Well Received in Florida Legislature
19 Jan 2011 / Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Reform, NewsThe Orlando Sentinel reported earlier this week that the proposal of an Arizona style immigration legislation that some say helped Florida’s current Governor Rick Scott get elected, is not well received in the Florida legislature. Critics in the Florida Legislature have said that for Arizona, a border state that has a lot of undocumented immigrants and sees ongoing violence just across the [...]
HAITI, One Year After Earthquake.
12 Jan 2011 / Announcements, Deportation, Humanitarian Parole, News, Temporary Protected Status (TPS)The Orlando Sentinel reported that today, January 12 is the one (1) year anniversary that a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed over 230,000 people and left about 1,000,000 homeless in Haiti, the western hemisphere’s poorest country. In an effort to help Haitian nationals both in the U.S. and in Haiti, President Obama and his administration acted quickly and extended benefits such as Humanitarian Parole and Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS [...]
Bill to Redefine U.S. Citizenship Introduced in Congress
11 Jan 2011 / Announcements, Immigration Reform, Legislative Watch, Naturalization, NewsThe American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) reported today that Representative King, a Republican from Iowa introduced the Birthright Citizenship Act (H.R. 140) on January 5, 2011. If the bill were to be signed into law, it would amend the immigration law and, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would redefine who can be deemed a U.S. citizen at birth. [...]
Is Arizona Style Immigration Related Legislation Brewing in Florida?
10 Jan 2011 / Announcements, Deportation, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Reform, NewsThe Orlando Sentinel reported today that the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee has invited speakers for a hearing scheduled for later today to provide information about immigration reform and its impact on the State of Florida. Both Florida’s Governor and Attorney General who began their terms in office just last week, support an Arizona style immigration related legislation. We at Pappas Law Group [...]
State Legislators Wanting to Redefine U.S. Citizenship
06 Jan 2011 / Announcements, Legislative Watch, NewsThe New York Times reported today that state legislators from Arizona, Georgia, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and South Carolina came together and began a national campaign yesterday to end the automatic granting of American citizenship to children born in the U.S. of undocumented immigrant parents. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to U.S. citizenship for for everyone born or [...]
USCIS Implements the Help Haiti Act of 2010
05 Jan 2011 / Announcements, Green Cards, Humanitarian Parole, NewsThe U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reported earlier this week that it will implement the Help Haiti Act of 2010 that was signed by the President on December 9, 2010. The law authorizes USCIS to grant lawful permanent resident (green card) status to certain Haitian children who are orphaned and were also paroled into the United States pursuant to the Haitian [...]
