Ryan Sullivan reports that Attorneys for Winston-Salem activist Uriel Alberto – who is on a hunger strike lasting more than a week – plan to file a bond motion Tuesday in immigration court to try to get him out of the Wake County Jail: Alberto and two other protesters were charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct [...]

The US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) reported yesterday that the implementation of the final rule requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to begin using its E-Verify system has been postponed to September 8, 2009.  The rule was first published on November 14, 2008 in the Federal Register requiring federal contractors and sub-contractors to agree to electronically verify the employment eligibility [...]

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 [...]

Change you can believe in? More of the same? You decide. The Houston Chronicle reports that President Obama’s choice to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says he wants to continue the Bush administration’s E-Verify system. Here’s what John Morton said in his Senate confirmation hearing last week: “We cannot make sustained reductions in illegal immigration without [...]

The New York Times reported yesterday that the nation’s two major labor federations, the  A.F.L.-C.I.O., and the Change to Win Federation have agreed to join forces to support an overhaul of the immigration laws. John Sweeney, President of the A.F.L.-C.I.O, and Joe T. Hansen, a leader of the Change to Win Federation, presented their now common position in Washington. In 2007, when Congress [...]

Everyone is wondering whether or not Congress will take up the issue of immigration reform in 2009. There are number of factors that will determine this, none of which has anything directly to do with immigration. Self-Deportation First, the bad economy and recent enforcement measures have caused many illegal aliens to self-deport. This has relieved some [...]