Michigan’s American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, who has refused to allow youths who apply for deferred action the right to get a driver’s license. Johnson has ruled that undocumented youngsters who came to the United States as children illegally do not have the legal right to […]
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has audited record numbers of firms for having illegal immigrants on their payrolls in the course of the last fiscal year. The number of audited employer I-9 forms rose from 250 in the fiscal year of 2007 to over 3000 this year. From the fiscal years 2009 to 2012, fines
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Under the current US immigration laws, many nurses, physicians and specialists are not able to work in the United States. With the ageing US population and the Affordable Care Act, however, there is an increasing demand for more advances in medicine, more practitioners and increased specialization, according to a report which was released recently by
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A federal judge signed an agreement last week that puts an end to a four-year legal battle between the state of Oklahoma and the US Chamber of Commerce over the former’s tough anti-illegal immigrant law. The judgment, which was signed by District Judge Robin Cauthon, effectively accepts the 10th Circuit US Court of Appeals’ 2010
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It did not take long after the reelection of President Barack Obama in the United States last month for a powerful belief to be formed that his victory had been secured thanks to the overwhelming level of support he had received from the Latino community. This also implied that the Republican Party, who had long
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In the interview that accompanied his selection as Man of the Year by TIME magazine, US President Barack Obama says that he intends to spend his second term focused on the issues of immigration, energy, climate change and the need to revive his nation’s economy. The wide-ranging interview included the freshly reelected President reflecting on
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Hispanic activist groups who have gathered in Washington DC have warned lawmakers that they intend to keep a “report card” on America immigration reform in 2013 and will punish any members of Congress who vote against legislation that includes a pathway to US citizenship for all undocumented immigrants in the country. The Service Employees International
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Around 30 immigrant advocacy groups are demanding the introduction of a new law that would allow people who deportation separated from their loved ones to be reunited with their families. Colorlines claims that over 200,000 people who are the parents of children who are now legal citizens of the United States have been deported in
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In the Brooklyn neighborhood known as Bath Beach, there is a strong and thriving Guatemalan community. Over the course of the last 10 years, the number of immigrants from Guatemala in the neighborhood has dramatically risen by as much as almost 1176 percent, a city planning development analysis from the US Census Bureau has revealed.
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In Northern Virginia the voices of immigrants were heard loud and clear in last month’s presidential election. Exit polls showed that 73 percent of all recent immigrants, not just those in the Latino community, voted for Barack Obama to be reelected as president of the United States. Data from the Pew Research Center demonstrated that
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A state law that will commence in January will enable young immigrants who have managed to obtain temporary legal status thanks to the federal Deferred Action program to be able to get California driver’s licenses, although not state benefits such as medical care or unemployment. Now a brand-new bill is proposing to allow them to
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