The endemic use of force within U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) made national headlines in 2010 when Anastacio Hernandez Rojas, a 42-year old Mexican national living in San Diego,…
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…designed to allow multi-national companies to transfer existing executives (L-1A) or specialists (L-1B) that have gained essential experience working for the company abroad. These visas allow international companies like Honda…
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…with profound humanitarian, public safety, and national security consequences. To begin with, long delays keep applicants with valid claims in limbo and hinder their integration into society: Judge Dana Leigh…
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…bi-national same-sex couples in the United States who might otherwise be separated by our immigration laws. Secretary Napolitano immediately issued a statement applauding the Supreme Court decision and declaring that…
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…it is equally a measure of more nuanced foreign policy and national security objectives. As our commitment to admit refugees appears to dwindle, so too does our stature in the…
Read More…filed by plaintiffs against Arizona law SB 1070. Counsel for the plaintiffs, which includes the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, and the National Immigration Law…
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…their children, through arduous, expensive, bureaucratic processes. The United States would likely have to create a national “birth registry,” and some sort of national ID to be used as proof…
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…is slated to take effect September 1, 2011. In their lawsuit, however, the ACLU, National Immigration Law Center, Southern Poverty Law Center, Asian Law Caucus and Asian American Justice Center,…
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…Council and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild submitted an amicus brief urging the court to permit the victim to seek remedies for the harms that he…
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…to public safety or national security. In fact, the overwhelming majority of people deported by ICE either have no prior criminal record or were convicted of misdemeanors. While ICE does…
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