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 link below:
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 listed below:
• Permanent Labor Certification Program – Select Statistics, FY 2018 (first quarter)
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
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 made the remarks during a White House meeting called by the President to discuss Immigration Reform legislation; he also is alleged to have used offensive language to describe African countries adding that he wished more immigrants would come from countries such as Norway.
The protesters were chanting, “What do we want? Apology!” or “What do we want? Respect! Protest organizer James Leger said, “We’re going to pray for America and pray for President Trump. People make mistakes. We’re not asking for impeachment. We just want an apology.”
For more detailed information about this subject, please read the Sun-Sentinel News Article, “‘What do we want? Apology!’ Hundreds of Haiti supporters protest near Mar-a-Lago“
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 include any month/year date from January 2011 to the present. You can also type in your own keywords to search.
For more detailed information about this subject please review the USCIS, “Electronic Reading Room“ and try it for yourself.
Source of Information:
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 cites flawed facts to castigate the immigration bar for the significant case backlog and inefficiencies in our immigration court system…”
For more detailed information about this subject please review the AILA statement, “AILA: AG Sessions Cites Flawed Facts in Missive on the Immigration Court System “.
Background: The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is the national association of immigration lawyers established to promote justice, advocate for fair and reasonable immigration law and policy, advance the quality of immigration and nationality law and practice, and enhance the professional development of its members.
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
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 pending applications and who have not been interviewed by the final date will receive a notice with further instructions. We are not sure what that last sentence really means!
Background:
The CAM program was established in 2014 to provide certain minors in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras the opportunity to be considered, while still in their home country, for refugee resettlement in the United States. Individuals who were determined to be ineligible for refugee status were then considered by USCIS for the possibility of entering the United States under parole. The parole portion of the CAM program was terminated in August 2017.*
List of Top News Stories from the last week related to Immigration:
The Atlantic (theatlantic.com), 10/26/17:
List of Top News Stories from the last week related to Immigration:
CNN Money (CNN.com), 10/11/17:
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