Blog Posts in January, 2012
Posted on Jan 31, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Salt Lake city is looking to add much needed legislation to stop predatory practices of "immigration consultants" who are ripping off unsuspecting refugees and immigrants of thousands of ...
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Posted on Jan 30, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Last week an upcoming politician on the Republican side, Senator Marco Rubio -FL gave a heartfelt speech about immigration at the Hispanic Leadership Network conference, which was also organized by ...
Continue reading "Rubio wants DREAM Act Legislation" »
Posted on Jan 27, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
The Associate Press (AP) requested information regarding New Mexican driver's lisence data to see if they could find any fraud in the system. The Martinez administration turned over the ...
Continue reading "Data Shows Real Problem With NM Driver Licences" »
Posted on Jan 26, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Last week Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio who is better known by his self titled name as the "toughest illegal immigration sherriff" in the United States. Well he is back in ...
Continue reading "Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Looking to Appeal Profiling Case" »
Posted on Jan 25, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Last night, President Obama gave a stirring speech on the state of our Union. A rather pointe point he raised was how the politicians in Congress are dysfunctional and out of touch with the American ...
Continue reading "2012 State Of the Union Speech In Regards To Immigration" »
Posted on Jan 24, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Anti-immigration groups and Pro-immigration groups are going at it again over Arizona's controversial immigration law after Democrats said they will fight to get this racial charged and bigoted ...
Continue reading "Arizona Democrats Looking To Throw Out Immigration Law" »
Posted on Jan 23, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
I have to say that watching the Republican presidential primaries would be hilarious if it was on some comedy show mocking the candidates but sadly this is not the case. They need no help mocking ...
Continue reading "This Is Earth Calling To Republicans" »
Posted on Jan 20, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Yesterday, Senior United States District Judge James A. Parker blasted New Mexico's current driver's license policy of undocumented immigrants. He of course was speaking of the case before him ...
Continue reading "New Mexico Driver's License In Spot Light" »
Posted on Jan 19, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
New Mexican Governor Susana Martinez (R) meet with Archbishop Michael Sheehan along with other Catholic bishops yesterday for breakfast. They then meet privately at the State Capital to discuss such ...
Continue reading "Chatholic Church And Martinez Differ Over Driver's Licenses" »
Posted on Jan 18, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With the general election just around the corner, the Republican Party is trying to do damage control with the Hispanic and Latino voters. One way they are trying to do this is put their token ...
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Posted on Jan 17, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Recently a story broke last week about how a past New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) employee was not permitted to converse in Spanish to non-English speaking immigrants looking to renew their ...
Continue reading "New Mexico MVD Gets Sued by Ex-employee" »
Posted on Jan 16, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Governor Susana Martinez (R) tried hard last year to get the New Mexico immigrant driver license law appealed with no success. It appears she is hoping to revitalize her efforts this campaign year. ...
Continue reading "Martinez Looking To Put Immigrant Drivers Licenses Back On Agenda" »
Posted on Jan 13, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
2011 may go down as the year of anti-immigration legislation but in reality most states that considered immigration bills like Arizona’s SB 1070 dismissed them handily in 2011. This is a real ...
Continue reading "Recent Finding Shows Majority Of States Against Arizona Type Immigration Law" »
Posted on Jan 12, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With Mitt Romney's commanding lead in the Republican primaries to receive his parties nomination to go up against President Barak Obama in the fall 2012 general election, it would be a historic ...
Continue reading "Romney Announces Ancestor's From Mexico" »
Posted on Jan 11, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Well it appears the reward for doing the right thing and I dare say a heroic deed for undocumented immigrants who help police to solve crimes is turning our backs on them and threaten them with ...
Continue reading "Deportation For Undocumented Immigrant Who Helped Police Solve Murder" »
Posted on Jan 10, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
The GOP and anti-immigrant politicians are going on the offense with their tired old rhetoric in regards to immigration. This time they are going after President Obama's recent proposal to help ...
Continue reading "Republicans Attack Obama's Immigration Fix" »
Posted on Jan 9, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
More good news to report from the Obama Administration today. It was announce late last Friday that it plans to process immigrant hardship waivers within the United States. This action will allow a ...
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Posted on Jan 6, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With Mitt Romney's recent win In Iowa and his current overwhelming lead in New Hampshire the former governor of Massachusetts may just be on his way to the Republican nomination, this may be of ...
Continue reading "Romney's New Immigration Stance May Cost Him" »
Posted on Jan 5, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
It is hard to fathom in this day and age that racism still exists but it not only exists but seems to be alive and thriving. When a presidential candidate who is running for the highest office in the ...
Continue reading "Santorum Associates Illegal As Latino" »
Posted on Jan 4, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
As Rick Perry has said in numerous Republican presidential debates to former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney, is this the real MItt Romney or past one? This has never been more apparent on ...
Continue reading "Romney Confused On DREAM Act" »
Posted on Jan 3, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Over 30 Latino bishops from the United States Roman Catholic church, have recently written a collective letter which talks about undocumented immigrants and reaffirming their determination to continue ...
Continue reading "Catholic Bishops Call For Just Treatment Of Undocumented Immigrants" »
Posted on Jan 2, 2012 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Yes, Virginia there is a Scrooge and to be more accurate there are a lot of them in the Republican party. Case in point, presidential candidate and former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney said ...
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