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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Posted on Dec 1, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
A young life was snuffed out way too early, Joaquin Luna was just 18 years old. He was a senior at Juarez Lincoln High School in Mission, Texas and his dream was to attend college. But because he knew ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With Illinois being one of a bakers dozen of states which permits undocumented students who receive their diploma from local high schools and who can also receive in-state tuition rates at local ...
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Posted on Aug 16, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
The 10 years since the Dream Act was originally brought up to the lawmakers in Washington, a handful of states have come up with their own laws on how to deal with immigration matters. Some state ...
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Posted on Aug 11, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With an estimated 65,000 undocumented students graduating from high schools in this country every year, a study by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has helped reinforce why the DREAM ...
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Posted on Aug 10, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Undocumented immigrants are the lost souls in this country who have their lives thrown into turmoil while lawmakers debate their fate. Their contributions to their families, churches are rarely spoken ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Well maybe not with the majority of Republicans. Case in point, Representative Lamar Smith, (TX-R) who Chairs the House Judiciary Committee that is hell bent on ramming legislation through for ...
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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 May 25, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With the very recent reintroduction by the Senate Democrats of the DREAM Act the president needs to back it even more then when it was defeated last year. It will be a very tough up hill struggle with ...
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Posted on May 19, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With the election campaign going to be ramping up very soon, President Barack Obama is starting to apply the pressure on Congress to fix our broken immigration system in the United States. Although it ...
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Posted on Apr 15, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), and other top Democrats asked the president this Wednesday to halt the deportations of undocumented kids who grew up in this country. Over twenty Democrats in the ...
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Posted on Mar 3, 2011 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With the defeat of the DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act), last December in the United State Senate, coming up short of the need votes to pass, this bill would have ...
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Posted on Dec 28, 2010 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
The Obama administration put out a statement that President Obama will not give up fighting for legislation that will give a pathway for legal status to young undocumented immigrant children. The ...
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Posted on Dec 22, 2010 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
After trying to wrap my head around the defeat of this crucial and much needed bill, the DREAM Act legislation, it is hard to fathom it was not passed. Or is it? With the Republicans successfully ...
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Posted on Dec 21, 2010 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With the DREAM Act legislation being shot down on the Senate floor last Saturday, it has not defeated the immigration debate. In the political arena, both parties will try to use this recent vote on ...
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Posted on Dec 20, 2010 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
With the defeat of the DREAM Act in the Senate on Saturday, the bill that would have allowed young undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship, it is time to shift gears. Although the DREAM Act ...
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Posted on Dec 18, 2010 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Texas Republicans in the Senate that were uncaring to the plight of thousands of children who's parent brought them to this country while undocumented, stood along the side of other Republicans today ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
The legislation that is known as the DREAM Act gives a pathway to undocumented immigrant students so that they would be able to gain citizenship. The supporters of the DREAM Act are sure to face a ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
Probably the biggest myth in regards to the DREAM Act is that it will encourage every undocumented immigrant to come to the United States. This argument seems to be that children that can benefit from ...
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Posted on Dec 13, 2010 By Kretz & Romero, P.C.
We have recently Blogged about the DREAM Act legislation that has passed the House and now is in limbo in the Senate. We have been asked many times at our law office just what is the DREAM Act? Well, ...
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