Immigration News

Tuesday, 31 August 2010 10:43

U.S. to stop deporting immigrants who may be eligible for green cards

ICE agents arrest an immigrant in Southern California. (Photo: ICE)

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has decided to stop deporting foreign nationals who may be eligible for a green card and who have no criminal record, The Miami Herald reports. The policy shift might affect tens of thousands of those married or related to a U.S. citizen or a legal resident who has filed petitions for immigration.

The change was outlined in an Aug. 20 memo that ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton sent to the agency's principal legal adviser and to the head of enforcement and removal operations.

Wednesday, 18 August 2010 09:44

Obama signs $600 million US border security bill

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a $600 million bill to beef up security on the U.S. border with Mexico, and his aides pressed lawmakers to set aside election-year politics and work toward broader immigration reform.

With illegal immigration seen as a key issue in the November congressional elections, the Obama administration touted the border enforcement plan as laying the groundwork for a revived effort to overhaul the U.S. immigration system.

Congress passed the measure this week and sent it to Obama, who sought the extra funding amid complaints from southwestern U.S. states that the government was failing to seal the border from illegal immigrants and drug traffickers.

Monday, 16 August 2010 16:41

Bolivian immigrant kills a nun while driving drunk

The division in the American population about what to do with illegal immigration has deepened, after an undocumented Bolivian citizen murdered a Catholic nun in a traffic accident in the state of Virginia.

Carlos A. Montaño, age 23, was drunk when his vehicle collided with another in which three sisters of the Catholic convent "Benedictine Sisters of Virginia" were riding on.

The nun Denise Mosier died on impact, while the other two sisters, Charlotte Lange and Connie Ruth Lupton are in close observation in a hospital.

Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:48

Arizona’s immigration law was paralyzed

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled Wednesday that several articles of the immigration bill SB 1070 in Arizona will not be enforce, because it "interferes with the efforts of the federal government to set immigration policy."

Bolton stated her decision on a 36-page report arguing that “the federal government's ability to enforce its policies and achieve its objectives will be undermined by the state's enforcement of statutes that interfere with federal law,"

Thursday, 15 July 2010 14:14

First major hearing against Arizona’s immigration law

Thursday in Phoenix is schedule to begin the first major hearing in one of seven lawsuits against the Arizona’s immigration law SB 1070.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton will hear arguments from the non-profit organization, "Chicanos por la Causa” and the police officer David Salgado, both trying to avoid the enforcement of the law next July 29.

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 14:48

Group distributes list with names of allegedly illegal immigrants in the American state of Utah

An unknown group in the state of Utah that calls itself "Concerned Citizens of the United States" has developed and distributed to various government agencies and to the media a "wacthlist" with 1300 names, apparently of Latino illegal immigrants living in that state.

The list contains the full names of 1,300 people, dates of birth, residence addresses, social security numbers, number of children and date of delivery of pregnant women on the list.

Monday, 12 July 2010 11:55

U.S. Government attacks illegal work with audits, instead of raids

A woman cries after a raid in Portsville, Iowa. 2008.

The Obama administration has replaced immigration raids at factories and farms with a quieter enforcement strategy: sending federal agents to scour companies’ records for illegal immigrant workers, reported The New York Times.

While the sweeps of the past commonly led to the deportation of such workers, the “silent raids,” as employers call the audits, usually result in the workers being fired, but in many cases they are not deported.

Over the past year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted audits of employee files at more than 2,900 companies. The agency has levied a record $3 million in civil fines so far this year on businesses that hired unauthorized immigrants, according to the paper.

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