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		<title>President Proceeds With Immigration Reform While Voicing Difficulties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reported today that President Obama commented yesterday in a meeting with immigrant activists that he would continue his efforts with immigration reform this year as long as he could garner a significant amount of Republican support.
However, insiders have said that an immigration reform bill cannot become a reality if the President used a legislative tactic known as reconciliation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/12/president-proceeds-with-immigration-reform-while-voicing-difficulties/</link>
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		<title>Immigrant Activists Urge the President to Pass Immigration Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/11/immigrant-activists-urge-the-president-to-pass-immigration-reform/</link>
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		<title>California Man Arrested and Charged with Visa Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Immigration &#38; 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 USICE&#8217;s investigation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/10/california-man-arrested-and-charged-with-visa-fraud/</link>
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		<title>H-1B Visa Season to Begin for FY 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reported today that on April 1, 2010, applications for H-1B visas for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 will be accepted.  The USCIS will consider a case as accepted only when the USCIS&#8217; mail room takes possession of a properly filed petition with the correct filing fee.
The numerical limitation on H-1B petitions for FY 2011 remains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/09/h-1b-visa-season-to-begin-for-fy-2011/</link>
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		<title>President Seeking Bipartisan Support for Immigration Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s immigration laws.
The President is seeking to bring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/08/president-seeking-bipartisan-support-for-immigration-reform/</link>
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		<title>Owner of English Language School Charged with Immigration Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Immigration &#38; 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&#8217;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 of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/05/owner-of-english-language-school-charged-with-immigration-fraud/</link>
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		<title>USICE Inspecting the Hiring Records of 180 Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) reported earlier this week that it has just issued about 180 Notices of Inspection (NOI&#8217;s) to businesses in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee. The NOI&#8217;s informed the affected business owners that they have three (3) days to prepare for the USICE to inspect their hiring records to determine whether or not they have hired unauthorized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/04/usice-inspecting-the-hiring-records-of-180-businesses/</link>
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		<title>State of Arizona Close to Criminalizing the Presence of Undocumented Immigrants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/03/state-of-arizona-close-to-criminalizing-the-presence-of-undocumented-immigrants/</link>
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		<title>Start Up Visa Act of 2010 Introduced in the Senate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senators John Kerry and Richard Lugar introduced legislation last week to promote job creation and increase our nation&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/02/start-up-visa-act-of-2010-introduced-in-the-senate/</link>
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		<title>E-Verify System Still has Bugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pappaslaw.com/index.php/2010/03/01/e-verify-system-still-has-bugs/</link>
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