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Former Los Angeles law firm Partner sentenced for visa fraud scam

The head of a now out-of-business Los Angeles law firm was sentenced Thursday to 10 months in prison for his role in orchestrating a lengthy employment visa fraud scheme where the illicit profits were used to purchase several hundred thousand dollars’ worth of vacant cemetery plots and grave monuments. Joseph…

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Immigration Agents Will Consider Same-Sex Partnerships in Deportation and Prosecutorial Discretion Cases

The federal government will formally instruct immigration agents to consider same-sex relationships the same way as heterosexual relationships in deciding whether a person should be deported. The announcement by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano comes as welcome news to some Democrats in Congress, including House Minority Leader Nancy…

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Governor Jerry Brown Acts on Immigration Bills

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a new law that will allow hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses and vetoed another that would have restricted sheriffs from helping federal authorities detain undocumented Californians for potential deportation. The driver’s license measure will allow illegal immigrants to drive legally…

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11th Circuit Says Alabama Can’t Check Student Immigration Status

A while back we posted on Alabama’s immigration bill which would allow schools to check the immigration status of new students in its public schools. Part of Alabama’s immigration law that ordered public schools to check the citizenship of new students was ruled unconstitutional Monday by the federal appeals court…

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Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano Defends Obama’s Immigration Policy

In new statements regarding Obama’s immigration policy, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended President Barack Obama’s decision to stop deporting many illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and letting them apply for work permits. “Our nation’s immigration laws must be enforced in a strong and sensible manner,” Napolitano…

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Asians recently passed Hispanics as the largest group of new immigrants to the U.S.

The Pew Research Center survey and accompanying report says Asian-Americans now make up 5.8 percent of the nation’s population, up from less than 1 percent in 1965, when the modern immigration wave from Asia began. Asians recently passed Hispanics as the largest group of new immigrants to the U.S. In…

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The Immigration Debate: Do we Still need Latin Immigrant Workers?

According to Michael Barone’s Examiner column today about immigration brings to mind interesting points. Michael concludes: My prediction is that we won’t ever again see the heavy Latin immigration we saw between 1983 and 2007, which averaged 300,000 legal immigrants and perhaps as many illegals annually. Mexican and other Latin…