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Source: National Journal
A year ago, President Barack Obama addressed immigration in his State of the Union address saying “I strongly believe that we should take on, once and for all, the issue of illegal immigration,” he said. “I know the debate will be difficult and take time. But tonight, let’s agree to make that effort.” (more…)
The initiative would allow spouses, parents, or children of US citizens who have been illegally in the country to legalize their status without a lengthy wait abroad.
USCIS announced a Notice of Intent to change its current process of not initiating consideration of waivers necessary for illegal immigrants to return to the U.S. until they have left the United States. Eduardo Soto, CEO of Como Inmigrar a USA , stated: “this is a big step forward in a field the Obama Administration has done little about” said the immigration lawyer in Miami.
Source: FOX News
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday that he would veto legislation that would allow certain undocumented residents to become American citizens. (more…)
Source: Reuters
Another foreign auto executive was arrested, the second one in a week. This time it was a Honda Motor Co. Japanese executive on assignment at the company’s Lincoln, Alabama, factory was issued a citation. The state’s immigration law requires proper identification to be produced during routine traffic stops. Those suspected of being in the country illegally can be detained. (more…)
Source: USA Today
NOGALES, Ariz. – The number of illegal immigrants arrested by the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector fell by over 40% last year, indicating a significant drop in illegal immigration has declined considerably in Arizona.
Official statistics will be released for several weeks, Butala Bersin, Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, told the Border Patrol agents in Nogales this week that the arrests in the Tucson sector fell to 123,000 last year fiscal. Arrests in Nogales Station, the largest in the Tucson sector, fell by 43% to 18,000.
“Ladies and gentlemen, know that you are engaged in a historical enterprise here,” said Bersin agents. The fall of the arrests, he said, shows that illegal immigrants “do not come around here anymore, and when they do, they get arrested.” (more…)
During the last eight years, 126 illegal immigrants have died while under the custody of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers in the United States.
The first case that took place during the 2012 fiscal year was Anibal Ramirez Ramirez, 35, from El Salvador, who died on October 2 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (more…)
This past Monday, October 31st, the administration of President Barack Obama challenged a new South Carolina immigration law, its third, arguing that it is unconstitutional and interferes with federal immigration authorities, a Department of Justice spokesman stated. The South Carolina law, signed by Governor Nikki Haley – the daughter of immigrants from India, signed into law in June. It should come into force on 1 January, 2012. (more…)
Hours after Judge Lovelace Blackburn upheld controversial parts of the state’s immigration solution, an exodus started. Parts of the law require schools to inquire about immigration status of children signing up for regular classes and gives local police the power to to the same to drivers while in routine traffic stops. The Obama administration filed court documents Friday announcing plans to appeal the ruling that upheld the law. (more…)
According to president Barack Obama, he backs an immigration reform and announced last month an initiative to ease deportation policies, but he has ousted 1,000,000 illegal immigrants in two and a half years. If the Administrations keeps up this pace, Obama will deport more people in one term than George W. Bush did in two.
This contradiction between rhetoric and reality is a key element of debate over U.S. immigration policy, and stakes are high for the next presidential election, having in mind that in 2008, 67% of Hispanics voted for Obama over Republican candidates. (more…)
In Spanish
El Congreso estadounidense intenta aprobar una ley que suspendería varios beneficios migratorios a miles de personas. Durante el programa, el abogado Eduardo Soto también habla de los requisitos para obtener la residencia permanente cuando una persona se casa con un ciudadano de EE.UU.
Y por último, en Cómo inmigrar a USA le explicaremos cómo las personas que han enviudado al casarse con residentes o ciudadanos americanos pueden regularizar su situación legal.
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