USCIS has announced that its field offices in San Diego and Chula Vista, California, are closed because of the devastating fires that have been sweeping the area in recent days. Read the announcement.
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High tech workers, many in software, IT, and biotechnology experience a very high level of frustration with the slow pace of the US immigration system. Some claim that the economies of their home countries (particularly India and China) are being nourished by returning workers who have given up on the US immigration system, in […]

It seems that the stalling of the DREAM Act is one more example demonstrating that with mass deportation off the table as an option, and with measures to deputize local law enforcement and put in place regulations intended to force mass firings the undocumented being resisted (at times successfully), those segments of society […]

The owner of two hotels, the Quality Inn and the Hampton Inn, both located in Brattleboro, Vermont, was arrested today and charged with harboring and employing illegal aliens and with misrepresentation in securing his own legal immigration status. Gurdeep Nagra, a citizen of Canada, and 14 of his workers were also rounded up - […]

As a postscript to today’s stalling of the DREAM Act, a bill intended to help young people solve a life-destroying legal predicament they bear no culpability for creating, Rep. Tom Tancredo indulged himself in hysterical antics intended to attract attention to his sluggish campaign for the Republican nomination.
Tancredo (R., CO), a Republican nominee for the […]

Today’s vote in the Senate not to proceed with debate on the DREAM Act brings yet another agonizing delay for the hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the US by their parents as children, either illegally or else with a visa and then overstayed, and who have remained here […]

A federal judge had issued a preliminary injunction preventing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from enforcing its newly promulgated regulation concerning how employers must respond when put on notice by the Social Security Administration (SSA) that the names and/or social security numbers of its employees do not match SSA’s database. DHS planned the new […]

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly arrested more than 1,300 people in the largest immigration enforcement operation in US history. The bulk of the arrests have taken place in five counties of southern California. Those targeted include aliens with previous criminal convictions, as well as previously deported individuals who have illegally re-entered the […]

Nationalities Services Center (”NSC”), a local nonprofit serving immigrant communities, will host “Global Tastes “, a celebration of ethnic cuisines, on 11/13/2007 at 6pm-8pm at the Penn Museum. I have nothing but praise for NSC, as they have been my main provider of translations for years. Earlier this year they moved to new digs at […]

 Widener University will host a one day program on Immigration Policy and Practice on October 29, 2007.
In addition to a review of the recent failure to pass a Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill in Congress, the program will focus on current state legislative activity in Pennsylvania.
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