On Monday, February 12, 2018, the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressman Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA), sent a letter to President Trump condemning his immigration proposal. In the letter he characterizes the President’s immigration proposal as “Unreasonable” and “Un-American”! To read the letter for yourself, please click the…
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) has provided FY2018 statistics (first quarter) in the form of program factsheets for each of the major immigration programs. These updated FY2018 statistics (first quarter) cover October 2017 through December 2017. The link to each program factsheet is…
List of some of the Top News Stories from this month’s related to Immigration: NY Times (nytimes.com), 1/24/18: Trump Officials Ask Sanctuary Cities to Prove Compliance With Immigration Law On Wednesday, January 24, 2018, the Justice Department has sent out letters asking local governments across the United States to…
Hundreds of Haitian Americans and their supporters chose to spend their Martin Luther King Day protesting near Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s Private Club in Palm Beach, FL., which he was staying at for the holiday weekend. They are protesting his alleged derogatory comments about Haiti and El Salvador. The President supposedly…
USCIS advertises that is has an online Electronic Reading Room. It’s really a Web-based searchable document database of public requested Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents; mixed with USCIS documents that the government decided may have a larger public demand. You can use pull-downs to choose different listed subjects and…
The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) released a statement on Wednesday, December 6, 2017, condemning recent attacks by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the immigration court system and the immigration attorneys who work to protect the rights of immigrants. Benjamin Johnson, AILA Executive Director stated, “Once again, the Attorney General…
List of some of the Top News Stories from the last month related to Immigration: Jurist (jurist.org), 11/14/17, Written by O’Hara Hamlin: Federal appeals court allows partial implementation of travel ban On Monday, November 13, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit allowed the Trump…
As of November 9, 2017, the Department of State (DOS) has stopped accepting new Central American Minors (CAM) refugee program applicants and the USCIS will stop interviewing as of January 31, 2018. They stated in the USCIS News Alert, “Status of the Central American Minors Program“, that individual applicants with…
List of Top News Stories from the last week related to Immigration: The Atlantic (theatlantic.com), 10/26/17: The Border-Wall Prototypes Are Up—Now What? President Trump and his administration are reviewing the eight different prototypes of the proposed Southern (Mexico) Border Wall. The Wall prototypes were built in the San Diego…
List of Top News Stories from the last week related to Immigration: CNN Money (CNN.com), 10/11/17: DACA in flux: 5 things business owners need to know When the Trump administration started the phase-out of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in early September, many business owners who hired…