Blog Posts in January, 2010
Posted on Jan 29, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
President Obama was elected last year with Hope and Change as his rallying cry. After over a year after taking office, not much has changed for most immigrant families in America. And the rhetoric of ...
Continue reading "Disappointing State of the Union regarding Immigration Reform. " »
Posted on Jan 28, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
The Catholic Charities of the United States was founded in 1910 on the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. The National Conference was founded to advance the formation of diocesan ...
Continue reading "The good work of Catholic Charities. " »
Posted on Jan 27, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
Last Friday, 34 United States Senators, pushed for the State Department and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to go the extra mile and permit children that had family members perish in the recent ...
Continue reading "Haiti Relief Efforts " »
Posted on Jan 26, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
Recent poll numbers show that over 80% of U.S. citizens think undocumented immigrants is a serious problem, and over 50% of voters say it should be a high importance for Congress to tackle. Over 65% ...
Continue reading "Maybe not so fast about Killing CIR in 2010 " »
Posted on Jan 25, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
I find it bizarre when anit-immigrant zealots proclaim that "We are not against immigrants coming to the United States, they just need to follow our laws." Obviously, they have never applied for ...
Continue reading "Pushing back Immigrantion Reform to 2011? " »
Posted on Jan 22, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
A small group of workers, graduates and immigrant rights advocates assembled in Las Vegas to promote comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). The crowd that showed up last week initiated the ...
Continue reading "CIR group rallies in Las Vegas, Nevada. " »
Posted on Jan 21, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
Advocates of comprehensive immigration reform united at Raleigh's Capitol Building in the downtown area earlier this week. The function, which was promoted by the Campaign to Reform Immigration for ...
Continue reading "A CIR rally in Raleigh, S.C. " »
Posted on Jan 20, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
A huge group of immigrant rights defenders advanced on a county jail in Phoenix this past weekend in a protest that was directed at Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration policies. Planners of the march ...
Continue reading "Protests against Sheriff Joe Arpaio" »
Posted on Jan 19, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
President Obama affirmed he will allow undocumented Haitians that are currently in the United States to stay temporarily because of Haiti's devastating earthquake. Department of Homeland Security ...
Continue reading "Haiti News " »
Posted on Jan 18, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
In a South Texas home raid Federal agents arrested a bar owner and one of his bartenders after the raid found numerous Honduran girls apparently were coerced into hooking. Beleal Garcia Gonzalez and ...
Continue reading "Prositution ring busted in South Texas." »
Posted on Jan 15, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
With the United States unemployment rate right around ten percent, the question remains about the immigration reform debate. Would giving millions of undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship ...
Continue reading "Debate continues about economic impact of immigration reform. " »
Posted on Jan 14, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
With the spotlight concentrated on putting the finishing touches on the debate over health-care legislation, Catholic bishops have indicated they will take part in ushering in the momentum for ...
Continue reading "Catholic Bishops start their push for Immigratratiom Reform. " »
Posted on Jan 13, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
Dayton police officers are now banned from questioning the immigration standing of a witness or an innocent person of a crime by Chief Richard Biehl. He believes it will alleviate apprehensions some ...
Continue reading "Dayton Police Chief stops his officers from questioning immigration status. " »
Posted on Jan 12, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
A handful of rural neighborhoods around the U.S. have violated the free speech rights of all by legislating prejudicial anti-solicitation laws targeting day laborers. The most recent town taking up ...
Continue reading "Believe it or Not! " »
Posted on Jan 11, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
A spokeperson for the federal agency told the N.Y. Times that he could not find out anything about a case of a man that died of head injuries recieved in a N.J. immigration jail in 2007. Although, the ...
Continue reading "Officials conceal truth on how immigrants died in detention centers. " »
Posted on Jan 8, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
The head of Utah's Roman Catholic leadership, Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City's diocese united with a N.Y. associate in the past few days, beginning a campaign in the United States encouraging ...
Continue reading "Catholic Bishop urges Immigration Reform." »
Posted on Jan 7, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has increased the filing cutoff for the expiration of the U Nonimmigrant Interim Relief Program. Everyone is now advised to file Form ...
Continue reading "Date Extended for U Nonimmigrant Interim Relief. " »
Posted on Jan 6, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
With the recent failed attempt to detonate a bomb on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas day last year. That individual was stopped by the quick thinking of the passengers and the crew of that ...
Continue reading "TSA new measures after failed bomb attempt. " »
Posted on Jan 5, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
The United States Department of State has announced the recent Visa Bulletin for January 2010. In the family-based classifications, there is a very negligible shift progressing ahead, by just a couple ...
Continue reading "Recent Visa Bulletin for January 2010." »
Posted on Jan 4, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) affirmed just a while ago that some immigration programs will be prolongate at least until September 30, 2012. This after the signing of the ...
Continue reading "Some Immigration programs extended to end of September 2012" »
Posted on Jan 1, 2010 By the Law Office of Kretz & Romero
We at Kretz & Romero, P.C. are wishing you and yours a Happy New Year! Let us hope that the coming new year is more properous then last year and that Immigration Reform is resolved this coming ...
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