In the case of Kucana vs. Holder, the Supreme Court ruled <font>yesterday that individuals who seek to reopen their deportation orders have the right to appeal to the federal courts if the immigration court refuses to hear the appeal.
In a letter to Janet Napolitano, Sen. Chuck Schumer made a case for not shutting down the Varick Federal Detention Facility in lower Manhattan and </font>transferring its 300 detainees arguing that it would be a blow to their right to due process.
Tensions escalated toward the end of a demonstration on Saturday by thousands of immigration advocates protesting against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio outside of a county jail in Phoenix, Az.
Full Disclosure Network (FDN) has released a 10-minute documentary covering the well known conflict between Federal and local law enforcement agencies in enforcing immigration policy and the lesser known LAPD policy called "Special Order 40" that prohibits local police officers from enforcing U.S. Immigration laws. Watch the documentary here.
The offer of temporary protective status for Haitians living the U.S. is proving to be a difficult challenge for many. The process requires people to supply documents such as passports or national identification cards, proof that they were living in the U.S. before the earthquake occurred, as well as fees amounting to $470.
As part of their series of "Solution Papers" the Immigration Policy Center has released "Family Immigration: Repairing our Broken Immigration System" which lays out the key principles for family immigration within the context of comprehensive immigration reform.
A report released by the Social Security Administration details the various errors incurred in implementing E-Verify, an electronic employment verification program that attempts to determine whether a new hire is authorized to work in the U.S.
Under the EB-5 visa program, the number of immigrants willing to invest $500,000 to $1 million in a U.S. business has tripled over the past fiscal year. Read this blog from the Immigration Policy Center to see how other investments by immigrants in American business are on the rise.
Last week, Reform Immigration for America kicked off its campaign bringing together more than 600 organizations in an effort to obtain comprehensive immigration reform. There were 152 launch events throughout the country to which 17,000 showed up in support of CIR.
Lastly, in light of Republican Scott Brown winning the Massachusetts State Senate elections, the Immigration Policy Center has released its research regarding the economic impact of immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in the Bay State:
-12.7% (or 403,915) of registered voters in Massachusetts were "New Americans"-naturalized citizens or the U.S.-born children of immigrants.
-The state’s foreign born population represents over 14% of state’s total population and 17% of the state’s workforce.
-The 2009 purchasing power of Asians totaled $12.7 billion and Latinos totaled $12.4 billion in Massachusetts.
-Immigrants in the Bay State paid $1.1 billion in state income taxes in 2007.
See more information regarding New Americans in the Bay State here.
