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News Posted on 2 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm

USCIS Reminds Haitians to Register for Temporary Protected StatusUpdate Posted on 12 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm

Special Humanitarian Parole Program for Haitian Orphan Fact Sheet Posted on 6 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm Final Opportunity to Request Consideration

Special Humanitarian Parole Program for Haitian Orphans Draws to a Close at R... Posted on 6 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm USCIS to resume Haitian orphan adoptions through regular process

Deferred Enforced Departure Extended for Liberians Posted on 18 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm USCIS Automatically Extends Validity of Employment Authorization Documents

USCIS Holds Children's Ceremonies at Verizon Center and Mount Vernon Posted on 18 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm

Deferred Enforced Departure Extended for Liberians Questions and Answers Posted on 18 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm USCIS Automatically Extends Validity of Employment Authorization Documents

Questions and Answers: Fiscal Year 2010 Citizenship and Integration Grant Pro... Posted on 16 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm

DHS Unveils Initiatives to Enhance E-Verify Posted on 16 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm Agreement with Department of Justice and Outreach Initiatives Will Strengthen E-Verify for Employers and Employees

DHS Unveils Initiatives to Enhance E-VerifyFact Sheet Posted on 16 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm Agreement with Department of Justice and Outreach Initiatives Will Strengthen E-Verify for Employers and Employees
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Bender's Immigration Bulletin
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Construction company owner pleads guilty to hiring unauthorized workers "A Magic Valley home builder pleaded guilty to federal charges of employing illegal aliens, following an investigation by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Stacy Clark Miller, 39, of Jerome, Idaho, owned a construction company that built houses in Twin Falls, Idaho. According to court documents, Miller admitted that for a 17-month period starting in November 2008, he employed three Mexican nationals who performed various tasks for his company including framing, dry walling and roofing. Miller acknowledges that he knew the workers were illegal aliens who did not have authorization to work in the United States, yet he continued to employ them. He also admits to willfully failing to comply with federal employment requirements." ICE, Aug. 31, 2010.

E-Verify, DLs and photo matching: "This is getting complicated" Dawn Lurie and Kevin Lashus on why I-9s and E-Verify will mean full employment for immigration lawyers for years to come.

Six Indicted in Human Trafficking Conspiracy for Exploiting 400 Thai Farm Wor... "The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired and devised a scheme to obtain the labor of approximately 400 Thai nationals by enticing them to come to the United States with false promises of lucrative jobs, and then maintaining their labor at farms in Washington and Hawaii through threats of serious economic harm. The defendants arranged for the Thai workers to pay high recruitment fees, which were financed by debts secured with the workers’ family property and homes. Significant portions of these fees went to the defendants themselves. After arrival in the United States, the defendants confiscated the Thai nationals’ passports and failed to honor the employment contracts. The defendants maintained the Thai nationals’ labor by threatening to send them back to Thailand, knowing they would face serious economic harms created by the debts. The indictment also alleges that the defendants confined a group of Thai guest workers at Maui Pineapple Farm and demanded an additional fee of $3,750 to keep their jobs with Global Horizons. Those workers who refused to pay the additional fee were sent back home to Thailand with unpaid debts, subjecting them to the high risk of losing their family homes and land." DOJ, Sept. 2, 2010.

ACLU: Fullerton company exploited immigrants "A Fullerton manufacturing business targeted earlier this summer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on suspicion of hiring illegal workers is again under fire -- this time by a civil rights organization alleging the business exploited and discriminated against immigrant workers." Orange County Register, Aug. 31, 2010.

Asylum Denial Rate Reaches All Time Low "Very timely Justice Department data show that Immigration Judges are declining substantially fewer requests for asylum. Denial rates have reached the lowest level in the last quarter of a century according to a new analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)." TRAC, Sept. 2010.

Barbour To GOP: ‘Quit Acting’ Like We Can Deport All Undocumented, Search... "In an interview with Human Events yesterday, one high-profile Republican broke with his party and condemned conservatives advocating for policies that take advantage of immigrant labor but fail to comprehensively reform our immigration system. Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), who comes from a state ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, explained that the state would be “way, way, way behind where we are now” if it wasn’t for immigrants — “some of there [who] were here illegally” — that helped to rebuild the state. He went on to say that people should search for “common sense” solutions for undocumented immigration, and that “we’re not going to take 10 or 12 or 14 million people and put them in jail or deport them.” He continued, “Some people need to quit acting like we are and let’s talk about real solutions."" Think Progress, Sept. 2, 2010.

Dangerous Border Drones "A private contractor working for the Border Patrol was controlling a Predator B outside of Nogales, Arizona. He accidentally turned off the drone’s engine. As the Predator began to lose altitude, air traffic control lost radar contact with the aircraft. In a small, desert community outside of Nogales, people awoke to what sounded like a bomb rattling their windows. The drone had skittered 95 feet down the mountainside, shattering as it plowed through the desert brush. Tom Duggin, whose house sat 1,000 feet from the crash site, got quite a scare. “If it had hit my house, I’d be dead,” he told media." Texas Observer, Aug. 26, 2010.

DOJ sues Sheriff Joe Arpaio "The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics. The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his office's defiance "unprecedented," and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and having English-only policies in his jails that discriminates against people with limited English skills." AP, Sept. 2, 2010.

Family speaks out about Fullerton ICE raid "Yadira Barragan used to think that people who came to this country illegally should simply return home to sort out their situation there. That all changed when the 32-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, who came legally from Mexico, unknowingly married a man who is in the U.S. illegally." Orange County Register, July 2, 2010.

How unauthorized immigrants are helping Social Security "By 2007, the Social Security trust fund had received a net benefit of somewhere between $120 billion and $240 billion from unauthorized immigrants. That represented an astounding 5.4 percent to 10.7 percent of the trust fund's total assets of $2.24 trillion that year. The cumulative contribution is surely higher now. Unauthorized immigrants paid a net contribution of $12 billion in 2007 alone." Edward Schumacher-Matos, Sept. 3, 2010.
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Immigration Impact

All Mirth and No Matter: Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Showcases Empty Anti-Imm... by Seth Hoy
Posted on 3 Sep 2010 at 12:31pm In a memorable performance this week, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer refused to defend previously made anti-immigrant statements regarding undocumented immigrants and beheadings during a gubernatorial debate with Attorney General and Democratic candidate, Terry Goddard. While Governor Brewer?s opening remarks meltdown is at least understandable, her inability/refusal to defend controversial anti-immigrant statements?which has become the centerpiece [...]

DOJ Sues Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Failure to Cooperate in Federal Inves... by Seth Hoy
Posted on 2 Sep 2010 at 3:00pm Today, the Department of Justice filed suit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for his refusal to hand over documents in an ongoing federal investigation into allegations of discriminatory practices based on a person?s national origin (racial profiling) and unconstitutional searches and seizures. According to the Arizona Republic, ?the lawsuit comes after weeks of back-and-forth [...]

New Report Demonstrates the Successful Integration of Immigrants into U.S. So... by Walter Ewing
Posted on 2 Sep 2010 at 9:05am A common refrain among anti-immigrant activists is that today?s immigrants just aren?t ?assimilating? into U.S. society like the immigrants of earlier eras. However, as a new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) points out, the ?illusion of non-assimilation is created by looking only at newcomers who have not had time yet to assimilate [...]

Smoke and Mirrors: FOIA Reveals ICE Deception in Secure Communities Program by Guest
Posted on 1 Sep 2010 at 2:17pm BY MELISSA KEANEY, NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER The misnamed Secure Communities program appears to be a nothing but smoke and mirrors?a federal program operating without adequate supervision or safeguards. The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking information on Immigration and Customs Enforcement?s (ICE) signature immigration enforcement program. [...]

Restrictionist Group Blames Immigrants for Unemployment Among Less-Educated W... by Walter Ewing
Posted on 31 Aug 2010 at 1:08pm In a new and fatally flawed report, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) attempts to blame immigrants for virtually any unemployment among less-educated native-born workers anywhere in the United States, in both good economic times and bad. The report, entitled From Bad to Worse, deluges the reader with data from 2007 and 2010 on employment [...]

States Pushing Anti-Immigration Legislation Forced to Run Costly Damage Control by Seth Hoy
Posted on 30 Aug 2010 at 2:16pm Although anti-immigrant campaign platforms might help win a primary in a state like Arizona, supporters of harsh immigrant enforcement measures must still address the resulting economic fall out. Last week, the Arizona Governor?s Task Force on Tourism and Economic Vitality hired HMA Public Relations, a Phoenix-based marketing communications and public relations firm, to the tune [...]

The Immigration Balancing Act: ICE Memo and High Removal Statistics Reveal a ... by Mary Giovagnoli
Posted on 27 Aug 2010 at 2:21pm Last week, two separate branches of DHS released important evidence supporting the argument that our immigration laws are fundamentally broken. The Office of Immigration Statistics released its annual report on removal and return statistics, noting that removals in 2009 totaled 393,289?marking the seventh straight year of increase. Meanwhile, ICE released a memo directing legal [...]

Anti-Immigrant Hysteria in Arizona Won?t End With the Primaries by Walter Ewing
Posted on 26 Aug 2010 at 12:41pm The Republican Party primaries in Arizona may be over, but the anti-immigrant demagoguery upon which the winning candidates built their campaigns is unlikely to fade away anytime soon. Governor Jan Brewer and Senator John McCain both managed to reverse their declining political fortunes in large part by raising the phantom specter of immigrant violence?a cynical [...]

The Politics of Immigration: Primaries Reveal Little About What?s to Come by Wendy Sefsaf
Posted on 25 Aug 2010 at 2:28pm It?s hard to pinpoint how exactly the issue of immigration impacted a range of primary races on Tuesday. In some cases, exploiting our broken immigration system may have helped candidates win elections?as in the case of Governor Jan Brewer. In other cases, talking tough about immigration may have cost politicians their race?like Florida?s Attorney General [...]

Staggering Right on Immigration in Arizona by Travis Packer
Posted on 24 Aug 2010 at 2:39pm Today, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) faces former Rep. J.D. Hayworth in what has been a hard-fought primary battle for the Republican nomination for Senate. Perhaps the central issue in the campaign has been immigration, with both candidates staggering as far to the right as possible. So far to the right, in fact, that David Catanese [...]
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