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Latest news related to immigration law in a simple, clear, and interesting manner by a partner in Siskind Susser's Memphis, Tennessee office who specializes in immigration matters in the healthcare and technology industries.
By Greg Siskind

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Last Entry: March 30, 2011 at 17:55:32

H-1B BILL INTRODUCED IN HOUSE

Posted on March 15, 2008
Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) has introduced much needed legislation that would link the H-1B cap to market demands and also provide cap exemptions for American-educated professionals in the sciences, engineering, technology and math. There are also provisions that largely target outsourcing companies, something that will probably appeal to many H-1B critics...

BOGDANA FREE NOW

Posted on March 15, 2008
K-3 Visa humor from the folks at Saturday Night Live (warning: there's some racy language here)

GONZALEZ RESIGNING FROM USCIS TOP POST

Posted on March 13, 2008
And only a week after I met with him....

NFAP REPORT SHOWS HIRING H-1BS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASES IN EMPLOYMENT OF AMERICANS

Posted on March 12, 2008
The protectionistas will no doubt come up with a million arguments why this is not true, but facts are facts. For every H-1B position requested, US companies hire five US workers. Protectionistas argue with anecdotes because they don't have the facts...

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AP: HATE CRIMES LINKED TO IMMIGRATION DEBATE

Posted on March 11, 2008
The Souther Poverty Law Center released a report entitled "The Year in Hate" in which it has added 44 new hate groups to the 844 it has been monitoring around the country. The Federation for American Immigration Reform has been included on the list and the AP reports FAIR is none too happy...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: HIROSHI MOTOMURA - IMMIGRATION LAW PROFESSOR

Posted on March 11, 2008
Most immigration lawyers in the US never took an immigration law class in law school. It's not that we avoided the class. It's that the class was never offered. Most law schools don't offer the course or only offer it every once in a while and as a two credit class that seems like it's more of an afterthought...

DISCHARGE PETITION ON SHULER BILL FILED

Posted on March 11, 2008
Republicans and conservative Democrats have submitted a discharge petition to bypass the committee process and consider the SAVE Act at the House floor level.

CONGRESS SET TO REPEAL BAN ON IMMIGRATION OF HIV+ APPLICANTS

Posted on March 10, 2008
Congress is set to include the HIV Non-Discrimination in Travel and Immigration Act in the President's PEPFAR emergency plan for AIDS relief. The measure, sponsored by Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Gordon Smith (R-OR) in the Senate and Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) would repeal the ban on immigration for HIV+ individuals...

IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION MOVING IN HOUSE?

Posted on March 10, 2008
The Associated Press reports that efforts to force the Shuler SAVE enforcement bill may have enough support to force its hearing on the House floor without going through the committee voting process. The highly unusual move is part of an effort by House Republicans to force the anti-immigration measure to be debated before the the November election...

ICE HARRASSES IMMIGRATION LAWYER AT HIS HOME

Posted on March 10, 2008
ICE officers executing warrantless searches and using intimidation tactics to unlawful entry to places of residence and work sites is something I've been reporting on in recent months. But this one is really interesting. And worrisome. Kevin Crabtree knows the law and can assert his rights...

STUDENT PROTESTORS DECRY TREATMENT OF ECUADORAN FAMILY

Posted on March 09, 2008
Student protesters in South Florida have taken up the case of another young person who immigrated to the US as a child accompanying her parents. The students believe Gaby Pacheco, who is now in deportation proceedings, was targeted by ICE officials because she was an activist promoting passage of the DREAM Act...

WILL H-2A CHANGES MAKE AGRIGULTURAL WORKER PROGRAM FUNCTION BETTER?

Posted on March 09, 2008
The Bush Administration recently announced changes to the H-2A program that are designed to make the program easier for employers to use. The program has been so complicated that even most immigration lawyers don't understand how it works. There is no cap on the H-2A program...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: HELEN WANDERER - TEACHER/SURVIVOR

Posted on March 09, 2008
The excellent New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein writes this morning on the archiving of a massive number of documents chronicling the resettling of Holocaust refugees in the United States in the 1950s. The stories told in the files tell of a group that had a number of difficulties in settling in this country but who ultimately succeeded despite the obstacles...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: GABRIEL BYRNE - ACTOR

Posted on March 08, 2008
Irish actor Gabriel Byrne has had a long and distinguished career in television and film. In 1995, he played a memorable role in the great film The Usual Suspects. He's now starring in the HBO series In Treatment, a nightly drama about a psychotherapist and his patients...

USCIS OFFICIAL SENTENCED FOR HARBORING GIRLFRIEND

Posted on March 08, 2008
Wow.

LANDLORDS ARRESTED FOR RENTING TO UNAUTHORIZED IMMIGRANTS

Posted on March 07, 2008
Are we in America? ICE is now prosecuting people who rent apartments to unauthorized immigrants. A landlord in Lexington, Kentucky is being prosecuted on federal alien harboring charges for renting apartments to unauthorized immigrants. This is not what the harboring laws were intended for...

MISSISSIPPI PASSES EMPLOYER SANCTIONS BILL WHICH CRIMINALIZES UNLAWFUL EMPLOYMENT

Posted on March 07, 2008
[Note: I've updated this from the original post after I discovered the shocking criminalization provision noted at the end. This is a pretty serious elevation of what states have been doing and it will test Governor Barbour's seriousness about defending the US Constitution if he goes along with signing the bill] Just days after Utah passed its employer sanctions law, Mississippi now becomes the latest state to go down the path of independently enforcing immigration law...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: JAGDISH BHAGWATI - ECONOMIST

Posted on March 06, 2008
Columbia University Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, an Indian-born immigrant, is one of the country's best known economists and he's written extensively on the importance of free trade. He is spending much of his energy telling the world that globalization is a good thing that makes all of us more prosperous...

CATO INSTITUTE REPORT CRITICIZES E-VERIFY

Posted on March 06, 2008
The Cato Institute, a well-known libertarian think tank, has issued a report expressing serious concerns with the E-Verify system that many states are now requiring be used by employers and which will eventually be required of all employers nationally...

CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS TURN UP THE RHETORIC ON IMMIGRATION

Posted on March 06, 2008
Hopes by some supporters of GOP presidential candidate John McCain that Republican members of Congress would tone down efforts to make immigration a wedge issue in the lead up to the November election are being dashed. McCain is hoping to avoid the defection of large numbers of Hispanic voters to the Democrats and has hoped to convince those voters that the GOP is not an anti-immigration/anti-Hispanic party...

UTAH LATEST STATE TO PASS IMMIGRATION BILL

Posted on March 05, 2008
The Utah Legislature has sent SB 01, an immigration bill, to the Governor who is expected to sign it in to law. The bill will do the following: 1. Sheriffs in Utah will need to determine the citizenship status of persons charged with felonies and will notify DHS of people whose legal status cannot be verified; 2...

PRO-IMMIGRATION MCCAIN WINS GOP NOMINATION

Posted on March 04, 2008
The last anti-immigration candidate in the GOP presidential race, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, conceded and endorsed John McCain after the latest round of primary contests went for McCain.

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: FARAH TASLIMA - COMPOSER

Posted on March 03, 2008
Today's immigrant of the day does not have a long career. In fact, she's just twelve years old. But Bangladeshi immigrant Farah Taslima has certainly made an important contribution to the country. One of her pieces was performed by members of the New York Philharmonic during their historic musical diplomacy tour of North Korea last month.

NYT: CURRENT ANTI-IMMIGRATION MOVEMENT TRACKS FAILED MOVEMENTS OF THE PAST

Posted on March 02, 2008
The Times has a really interesting story this morning giving a historic overview of anti-immigrant movements in past generations and how none of them - even ones much larger than today - actually altered elections. One interesting passage may explain why Americans are not buying in to the rhetoric: Mr...

SUNSTEIN TAKES HARVARD POSITION

Posted on March 01, 2008
This is not really immigration news, but my favorite professor from law school and the one who had a lot of influence in my choosing to go in to immigration law has just been traded to Harvard Law School after decades at the University of Chicago. Professor Cass Sunstein taught me administrative law and environmental law...

US CITIZEN SUES OVER DEPORTATION

Posted on February 29, 2008
So you thought only unauthorized immigrants are deported? Surprise - US citizens are sometimes shipped out of the US mistakenly. ICE officers often assume people are lying and mentally challenged individuals guilty of looking foreign and not being able to communicate well enough to overcome a stereotype...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN

Posted on February 29, 2008
If John McCain becomes President, he will be the first one born in another country. Yes, you read that correctly. John McCain was born in Panama. More precisely, he was born in the Panama Canal Zone in a US Navy hospital to a US citizen mother and father (his dad was in the US Navy stationed there)...

DOBBS: "WE'VE NEVER OPPOSED LEGAL IMMIGRATION"

Posted on February 29, 2008
Are you kidding me? Dobbs was airing an incredible report last night actually insinuating that the people complaining about hate speech emanating from his show are actually the real bigots when he made this little doosy of a statement. I knew this was a lie, but how to convince readers that I'm not just being mean to old Lou? Then I remembered that CNN makes transcripts of all of its shows available online...

SENATOR CONRAD INTRODUCES PHYSICIAN IMMIGRATION BILL

Posted on February 28, 2008
This is a very important proposal that would permanently extend the Conrad 30 J-1 waiver program for doctors working in medically underserved areas. This vital program expires in June and it is vital that Congress pass an extension bill soon. The bill would also create an H-1B cap exemption for certain doctors that work in underserved areas as well as rewarding the service with an exemption from employment-based green card caps...

MCCAIN'S IMMIGRATION TIGHTROPE

Posted on February 27, 2008
The mission flip-flop, but don't seem too flippity-floppity.

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