Blog Posts in February, 2010
Posted on Feb 26, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
This country's immigration laws as we know them are a concoction of 3 predominant enactments: the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act (INA); the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments ...
Continue reading "How America's Immigration Laws came about. " »
Posted on Feb 25, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
A number of leading Hispanic lawmakers from thirty-two states, paid for a poll to determine hispanic community envolvement. Over five hundred registered hispanic voters were polled in late January by ...
Continue reading "Hispanic voter Poll conducted. " »
Posted on Feb 24, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
In 1990 the foreign-born population of America was eight and half percent of the gross population. The distribution of immigrants in America during the time frame preceeding 1850 to 1940 was larger. ...
Continue reading "Immigration Tidbit " »
Posted on Feb 23, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
Because of the beatings the Republicans took in the 2006 and 2008 elections, they are scratching their heads and wondering how they lost so many of the Hispanic voters. With the GOP's long-established ...
Continue reading "GOP wants to entice Hispanics at the polls." »
Posted on Feb 22, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
The drive for comprehensive immigration reform is beginning to happen with some people in Colorado and combining with the rest of the country in uniting together is this important issue. United States ...
Continue reading "The momentum is growing for Immigration Reform." »
Posted on Feb 19, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
The United States Constitution can't get any more clear: Anyone that is born in America is a citizen, PERIOD. But when you start to add in undocumented immigrants into this formula it starts to make ...
Continue reading "Republican legislation wants to limit who inherently becomes a U.S. citizen at birth. " »
Posted on Feb 18, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
Yesterday, La Opinion which is one of the largest Spanish newspaper, ran an editorial regarding what is going on with comprehensive immigration reform or should I say what is not going on with it. The ...
Continue reading "More Troubles for Obama and Democrats. " »
Posted on Feb 17, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
A drive called "Justice for Immigrants" is being orchestrated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration. The churches are making postcards accessible to followers on ...
Continue reading "The Catholic Church continues it push for Comprehensive immigration reform." »
Posted on Feb 16, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
The number of Haitians that have applied for Temporary protected status (TPS) in hopes to stay in the United States and be able to hold a job leglly is now over 12,000 after their devasting ...
Continue reading "Over 12,000 Haitians apply for TPS so far. " »
Posted on Feb 15, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
A federal judge has determined that sanctions are warranted for an AZ sheriff's departmant. The department's involvement in the destroying of evidence in a lawsuit that alleges law enforcement ...
Continue reading "AZ Sheriff collides with US government. " »
Posted on Feb 12, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he will disregard the government's undertaking to change his steadfast policy of federal immigration law. His action may be like an accident waiting to happen with the United ...
Continue reading "Sheriff Arpaio on a collision course with U.S. government. " »
Posted on Feb 11, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
For the second straight year, the amount of undocumented immigrants residing in the United States has reduced, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In January of 2007, there were ...
Continue reading "United States not so enticing as the Land of Opportunity. " »
Posted on Feb 10, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
Acknowledging appeals from immigration attorneys and judges who understand the U.S. immigration courts are failing under an enormous caseload, the American Bar Association (ABA) asked Congress to ...
Continue reading "The ABA thinks it has a solution to the broken immigration system. " »
Posted on Feb 9, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
Advocacy organizations serving the interests of the Latino community predicted it will remain a critical test in the upcoming mid-term races. A communique that surfaced yesterday, from America's Voice ...
Continue reading "How important will the immigration reform issue be for Hispanic voters in the Midterm elections? " »
Posted on Feb 8, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
A Texas immigration judge examines United States prosecutors for pursuing criminal charges against some undocumented immigrants. United States District Judge Sam Sparks said in a motion that he has ...
Continue reading "Austin Federal Judge looks into Prosecution costs. " »
Posted on Feb 5, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
President Barack Obama’s aunt that is a native Kenyan finished her immigration inquiry recently without an instant decision on another try for asylum in America. Zeituni Onyango did not release a ...
Continue reading "Hearing for President Obama's Aunt for asylum. " »
Posted on Feb 4, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
A few days ago a federal appeals court board upheld much of an injunction against Oklahoma's hard-nosed anti-illegal immigrant law. The state can now make contractors do audits on an employee versus a ...
Continue reading "Oklahoma immigration law loses battle. " »
Posted on Feb 3, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
An Army vet and a naturalized United States citizen who was held for almost eight months by immigration agents is suing the US government. Rennison Castillo is suing the United States Immigration and ...
Continue reading "Army Vet sues ICE." »
Posted on Feb 2, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
A large number of Latinos are livid at President Obama State of the Union address last week for not making good on campaign promises to push for comprehensive immigration reform legislation (CIR). It ...
Continue reading "CIR supporters are organizing a national mobilization on March 21. " »
Posted on Feb 1, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
Latino advocates said that President Obama basically forgot their faction in his state of the union address last week and that the mid-term elections could assist in being a mandate on his ...
Continue reading "The National Latino Congreso. " »