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Greg Siskind's Blog

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

RAND PAUL WANTS TO STRIP CITIZENSHIP FROM CHILDREN OF ILLEGALLY PRESENT IMMIGRANTS

Posted on May 29, 2010
Isn't this the guy who talks about strictly interpreting the Constitution? I guess that includes all of the Constitution but the 14th Amendment.

iCE INVESTIGATING RAPES BY GUARDS AT TEXAS FACILITY

Posted on May 29, 2010
More problems at ICE's Hutto facility in Taylor, Texas.

THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT

Posted on May 29, 2010
Politico's Jonathan Martin explores the short term attraction and long term peril of the GOP's embrace of the anti-immigrant movement. He specifically discusses the subject in relation to the governor's race in California: The logic is clear: the new hard-line Arizona law, widely popular among the sort of Republicans that dominate this state?s GOP primaries, and Poizner?s unrelenting focus on the broader issue, forced Whitman to engage on a topic she was hoping to avoid...

GUTIERREZ BECOME'S OBAMA'S FOE ON IMMIGRATION

Posted on May 29, 2010
Julia Preston of the New York Times profiles Representative Luis Gutierrez of Chicago who is the "noisy, needling outsider" who has become a thorn in the side of the White House on immigration.

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POLITICO: MINUTEMEN SELLING ENDORSEMENTS TO CANDIDATES

Posted on May 27, 2010
Politico is running a story this morning that the anti-immigrant Minuteman organization has been requiring candidates to hire a consulting organization run by the organization's political director as a quid pro quo for an endorsement from Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist.

THE SOUND STRIKE

Posted on May 27, 2010
Musicians boycott Arizona.

POLLS SHOW PUBLIC WANTS ACTION ON IMMIGRATION REFORM

Posted on May 26, 2010
Antis point to polls showing more Americans support the Arizona bill than oppose it. But other polls - including new ones from ImmigrationWorks USA and Immigration Voice, show these same voters also support - by wide margins - comprehensive immigration reform proposals that contain legalization programs...

POLICE CHIEFS: AZ LAW WILL RAISE CRIME RATE

Posted on May 26, 2010
Police chiefs from around the US gave this warning to US Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday.

ARIZONA BILL COULD IMPACT NOVEMBER RACES

Posted on May 25, 2010
And it's not in the way the bill's supporters probably have hoped. From Public Policy Polling: There's no doubt that the new Arizona immigration law is popular nationally, but that still doesn't mean the issue's going to work to the GOP's advantage this fall...

PIECEMEAL VERSUS COMPREHENSIVE

Posted on May 25, 2010
I've been hearing reports behind the scenes over the last few days about a growing rift in the pro-immigration movement between whether it is better to hold out for comprehensive immigration reform or switch to a strategy of pursuing significant lesser immigration measures like the DREAM Act or AgJobs...

RHODE ISLAND WON'T GO WAY OF ARIZONA

Posted on May 25, 2010
Despite having a strongly anti-immigrant governor, the state's House speaker has rebuffed his efforts to bring SB1070 to New England.

CIR-LITE DEAL IN THE WORKS?

Posted on May 25, 2010
Keep an eye on the military appropriations bill Congress is working on for a potential immigration piece. The AP reports that Republicans want some serious money and personnel commitments for the southern border. And my own sources are telling me that some Democrats are looking at trying to get the DREAM Act in that same piece of legislation...

DO YOU HAVE YOUR GRINGO MASK?

Posted on May 25, 2010
An ad agency in Miami has a unique product offering for the people of Arizona.

HOW NOT TO HIRE A LEGAL ASSISTANT

Posted on May 25, 2010
The National Law Journal reported this week on an immigration lawyer in Chicago who advertised on Craiglist for a legal assistant/sex partner.

IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES WARY OF RAHM EMMANUEL

Posted on May 23, 2010
A year ago, Rahm Emmanuel tried to convince President Obama not to pursue health care legislation. It would be too divisive. Now he's making the same case on immigration and it is upsetting many pro-immigration Democrats. The problem is that President Obama was elected as an agent for change, not simply to be a status quo President who would mind the store until someone bolder comes along...

IMMIGRATION HUMOR: DORA THE LAW BREAKER

Posted on May 21, 2010

BUT MY MOM HAS NO PAPERS

Posted on May 19, 2010
In an extraordinary exchange at an event that is usually just a photo op, First Lady Michelle Obama fielded a question from a second grader that really reminds us of the fact that the millions of people in the US working without status today are real people with real families...

MEXICAN PRESIDENT EXPECTED TO MAKE IMMIGRATION KEY ISSUE DURING DC VISIT

Posted on May 18, 2010
Mexican President Felipe Calderon will meet President Obama and address a joint session of Congress this week. And immigration is expected to be front and center during his meetings.

THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE GENERATION GAP

Posted on May 18, 2010
I started to notice this back in 2006 when the immigration debate was heating up in Washington. I was getting those annoying email forwards and this time they were of the Lou Dobbsian anti-immigrant variety. The surprising thing to me was that most of them were coming from older family members or acquaintances in the senior citizen set...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: RIMA FAKIH - MISS USA

Posted on May 17, 2010
Well I stand corrected. Last night I reported that Rima Fakih was born in the US to immigrant parents. That's what the one biography I could find that listed her birth place actually said. But a day is a long time in the news cycle and we know a lot more about America's newest sweetheart...

RIGHTS GROUPS FILE CLASS ACTION CHALLENGING ARIZONA LAW

Posted on May 17, 2010
Here's the news release from the ACLU: The American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona challenging Arizona's new law requiring police to demand "papers" from people they stop who they suspect are not authorized to be in the U...

ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW COULD COST US WORLD CUP

Posted on May 17, 2010
The Arizona Republic reports that US bid to host the 2018 World Cup may be jeopardized by plans to include the University of Phoenix Stadium as one of the venues. This quote from the story caught my attention: 'We've got 18 cities that are part of the bid, and it's a long way between now and 2018 or 2022,' U...

ARIZONA LAW COMES UP IN MISS USA PAGEANT

Posted on May 17, 2010
Surprising. I was watching the pageant with my wife and three daughters (I think these competitions are probably mostly aimed at women viewers and not men). During the interview segment with the last five contestants, Miss Oklahoma was asked her opinion of SB1070...

ARIZONA LAW COMES UP IN MISS USA PAGEANT

THE LAWSUIT TEXT

Posted on May 17, 2010
Here is the text of the class action suit filed today challenging the Arizona law. az_sb1070_complaint_20100517

EOIR CREATES PROCESS TO COMPLAIN ABOUT BAD IMMIGRATION JUDGES

Posted on May 17, 2010
I think most Immigration Judges try to do their job in a fair way. But there are a few that really cross the line way too often. The press has covered this and I've tried to bring some of these problems to light in this forum. Now EOIR wants people who have been victimized by poor conduct from an Immigration Judge to complain and they've established a complaint portal on their web site.

OBAMA'S AUNT WINS ASYLUM CASE

Posted on May 17, 2010
Congrats to my friend Margaret Wong who represented Aunt Zeituni.

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF "DO YOU FEEL SAFER?"

Posted on May 16, 2010
The NY Times' Nina Bernstein reports on spouses of US citizens who are facing exile for technical and minor violations of their visa status. DHScomes off fairly sympathetically in the story - the implication is they were trying to help and the mean courts and the dysfunctional Congress are to blame...

SIX QUESTIONS FOR SUPPORTERS OF THE ARIZONA LAW

Posted on May 16, 2010
Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer reaches out to the other side.

CBP COMMISSIONER IN HOT WATER OVER MISSING I-9 FORMS FOR NANNIES

Posted on May 16, 2010
Alan Bersin, the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection is in trouble for not completing I-9 forms for 10 household workers since 1993. Bersin paid taxes on the employee's wages and there is no indication that the workers were illegally present...

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