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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement division (“ICE”) of the Department of Homeland Security has announced it will launch another wave of employer audits pertinent to I-9 forms and other documents relevant to immigration compliance, according to Corporate Counsel magazine. Reportedly 1,000 employers will be audited of various sizes across the country, which should raise [...]

The state bill offers no hope for change of citizenship status, but it provides hope to children of Illinois immigrants attending schools without imposing additional costs on taxpayers, according to supporters of the legislation. The Illinois Senate and House have passed legislation that would establish a volunteer state commission that would generate reliable information about [...]

Illinois is one of three states that have now withdrawn from the “Secure Communities” program, under which states are sharing information and resources with the federal government to screen jail inmates and detainees for prior criminal histories pertinent to immigration policy. New York and Massachusetts have followed the lead of Illinois, with each state’s governor [...]

On May 26, 2011, the Supreme Court upheld Arizona’s recent law that imposes sanctions on employers who “knowingly or intentionally” employ undocumented workers and requires employers to use federal government’s E-Verify program to verify the status of its workers. One of the sanctions contained in the Arizona law allows, and in certain circumstances, mandates, the suspension or revocation [...]

The introduced StartUp Visa Act would facilitate the importation of new businesses into America by making new permanent residence visas available to qualified start-up entrepreneurs who can demonstrate a $100,000 domestic investment and the likely creation of five full-time jobs in the U.S. over two years or an additional investment of $1 million or the attainment of [...]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement deputy director Kumar Kibble
told a House subcommittee hearing that it costs approximately $12,500 to arrest, detain, and deport each person removed from the United States. In 2010 ICE deported about 393,000 people from the United States, and the cost was almost $5 billion. It’s estimated that 11 million people are currently in the U.S. without authorization. Extrapolating the ICE figures, it would cost the government almost $140 billion to deport them. We simply cannot afford to do that.

On January 21, 2011, U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that 62,800 H-1B petitions out of the regular quota of 65,000 have been received since April 1, 2010. USCIS also announced that the special quota of 20,000 for foreign nationals with U.S. master’s degrees has been exhausted. This 62,800 number already exceeds 58,200, the quota for regular H-1Bs after subtracting the 6,800 H-1B1 numbers which are reserved solely for citizens of Chile and Singapore pursuant to free trade agreements. However…

Alien gets deported because claims that he suffered name calling and bullying as child on account of his Jewish religion when he lived in Ukraine, and where alien also claimed that he would be jailed for failing to register for mandatory military service if forced to return to Israel. Evidence of anti-Semitic attacks, insults and threats that alien endured as child did not rise to level of persecution and failed to demonstrate that alien was under imminent risk of harm. Moreover, threat of jail time in Israel for military desertion was insufficient to constitute persecution in absence of evidence that alien would receive harsher punishment on account of his religion.

If a legal resident was convicted on a simple offense (a misdemeanor) for drug possession, he is not subject to deportation. If the same legal resident is convicted on a second, repeat, simple offense, AND this offense triggers a 2-year jail sentence and it becomes “aggravated felony” offense, then it is subject to removal. But a few days ago U.S. Supreme Court held that “second or subsequent simple possession offenses are not aggravated felonies under §1101(a)(43) when… the state conviction is not based on the fact of a prior conviction.”