Blog Posts in June, 2011
Posted on Jun 30, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
As you may recall we blogged about Georgia's new immigration law which is screwing up the agriculture industry. Laborers which a lot of them are migrant workers from Central America, had saturate the ...
Continue reading "Situation in Georgia becoming Serious over New Immigration Law." »
Posted on Jun 29, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
The Senate held hearings on the DREAM Act yesterday with many undocumented students in attendance. Many top public officials were present to give testimony in support of the DREAM Act some of them ...
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Posted on Jun 28, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Georgia is one of the latest state to try and push through racist immigration laws has followed three other states same fate of not being allowed to enact their immigration laws. A federal judge has ...
Continue reading "Georgia's Anti-Immigrant Law put on hold." »
Posted on Jun 27, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Yet another Anti-immigration march occurred this weekend this one was held in Birmingham, Alabama. The march was a candlelight vigil that went through the city streets and wound its way to Linn Park. ...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez (R) declares she will evoke her executive powers to begin her quest to stop immigrants from getting a New Mexico state drivers license. Democrats were able to hold ...
Continue reading "Martinez looking to put the screws to Immigrants." »
Posted on Jun 23, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Well, a few days after the United States Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Agency announced its new policy which allows ICE officers and lawyers to use their discretion as they see fit to ...
Continue reading "Democrats in Senate try again for Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill." »
Posted on Jun 22, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
A Tennessee federal judge has made a ruling that Hispanic employees do not have to disclose their immigration status to their past employer's looking to get back wages. Lawyers for Caryville-based ...
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Posted on Jun 21, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
The federal judge who entertained claims from both sides on Georgia's new immigration law was United States District Judge Thomas Thrash . As you may know this new immigration law is going after ...
Continue reading "Federal Judge needs more time to ponder Georgia Immigration Law." »
Posted on Jun 20, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
United States Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) put out a statement the end of last week declaring changes they have put in place when it comes to policies on how they enforce rules. The reason ...
Continue reading "ICE says it has changed how it does business." »
Posted on Jun 20, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Georgia's' recently enacted immigration law, which was suppose to start on July 1, would allow both local and state law enforcement agencies to look into the immigration status of a "particular type" ...
Continue reading "Judge to determine what's going to happen with Georgia's racists-undocumented immigration law." »
Posted on Jun 17, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
As we blogged about last month with Georgia's Governor Nathan Deal putting his John Hancock on an immigration law which was supposedly only to help stop undocumented immigrants from taking jobs away ...
Continue reading "The Blind leading the Blind." »
Posted on Jun 16, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
It appears that the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) are ramping up for another raid looking for companies that may not be compliant with hiring new employees that may ...
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Posted on Jun 15, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Well, it appears that Republicans in the House have drafted an immigration enforcement proposition yesterday making businesses to use the E-Verify system which is currently a voluntary system for ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) and Senate Republicans are trying to use the old standby that the federal government has dropped the ball when it comes to enforcing immigration laws and their state must ...
Continue reading "Texas Lawmakers look into Immigration proposal." »
Posted on Jun 13, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With Alabama's Governor Robert Bentley (R) signing into law last week of what he called one of the toughest "illegal" immigration laws in the country, he is rather smug with himself I have no doubt. ...
Continue reading "Latest copy cat AZ Immigration Law." »
Posted on Jun 10, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
There are many sad stories of people scamming immigrants out of their hard earned money. One such case happened in New York, where a Puerto Rican who had a criminal history which even included a ...
Continue reading "Part 2... Scam Artists Prey on Immigrants." »
Posted on Jun 9, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With the economy still sluggish some people look for an easy buck and some think they can accomplish this by taking advantage of immigrants. We are even seeing these scams in the Albuquerque area. ...
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Posted on Jun 8, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With over a twelve Latin American nations who have submitted legal summaries in federal court disputing Utah’s enforcement-only immigration legislation it is just a sign of the injustice of these ...
Continue reading "Other Nations looking to help fight Utah Immigration Law." »
Posted on Jun 7, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled on the side of a California law which lets undocumented immigrants that resides in the state lower in-state tuition allowance at public universities, these are the ...
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Posted on Jun 6, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Well who could not see this coming, well maybe only Georgia legislators I guess. Last week Civil liberty organizations announced that they filed a lawsuit to stop Georgia's new immigration law that ...
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Posted on Jun 3, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Alabama Legislators agreed to allow an Arizona-type immigration law. They also allowed new congressional districts that will help Republican incumbents to stay in power. This all happened on almost ...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Yesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) has put a halt on his state's participation in a federal immigration program that tries to capture undocumented immigrants. You could almost hear a collective ...
Continue reading "Immigration advocates applauded New York Governor's resolve." »
Posted on Jun 1, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
As I blogged about last week in regards to Arizona's recent "win" by the Supreme Court in respect to the states power to enforce business laws may not be such a win for them. The fact is that the ...
Continue reading "Arizona really did not win anything in it recent Supreme Court Ruling." »