The Los Angeles Times reported today that in an interview last week in Los Angeles, the President put fault on Republicans in Congress for their unwillingness to come together and work with him to to reform our country’s immigration laws that would legalize approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants. During the interview, he mentioned that when immigration reform was being debated in Congress back in 2006, 11 Republican [...]

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 Washington Times reported today that in the President’s video message last weekend, he told tens of thousands of immigrant rights supporters that rallied at the National Mall this past Sunday, that he is pushing for an immigration reform bill to be passed that he would sign into law this year that would fix the country’s broken immigration laws. [...]

The Los Angeles Times reported today that Congressman Luis Gutierrez criticized President Obama and his administration for not doing more to seek legislation that would legalize the approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.  Despite his criticism, he also mentioned that he lacks the necessary votes in the U.S. House of Representatives to actually pass the bill that he sponsored. [...]

The Washington Times reported recently that with President Obama having postponed immigration reform until sometime next year because of more pressing issues such as health care reform and the economy, immigrant rights groups have criticized the Obama Administration by saying that immigration reform is “slipping away.” Several groups have said the only short term solution for undocumented immigrants until immigration reform ultimately [...]

The Miami Herald reported today that President Obama, Democratic congressional leaders, and advocates for reforming the nation’s immigration laws have said that that passing a comprehensive immigration bill this year is a top priority, despite other legislative actions that include confirming Sonia Sotomayor to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, reforming the nation’s health care system, addressing climate change and, conducting wars in both Iraq [...]

The Orlando Sentinel reported yesterday that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Immigration Statistics released a report on the number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the border.  The report shows that apprehensions at the border are at a 36 year low. The number of apprehensions made by the U.S. Customs & Border Protection (USCBP) has declined for the third [...]

The Houston Chronicle reported that the Obama administration is expanding a program initiated by former President Bush to verify the immigration status of every person that is incarcerated in the local jails. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) implemented a program called Secure Communities.  The program is currently in 48 counties in seven states.  The USICE plans to expand it to all jails and prisons by [...]

The Los Angeles Times reported that the Southern California counties of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Diego will be the first in the state to begin checking the immigration status of all inmates booked into the county jail system as part of a national effort to identify and deport immigrants with criminal records. Law enforcement officials in the 3 counties will [...]

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) issued a press release yesterday stating that as President Obama renewed his Administration’s pledge to pursue comprehensive immigration reform, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced its intention to refocus its worksite enforcement on criminal prosecutions of employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers.   The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship led [...]