| March 09, 2010 |
| Catholic Bishops balk on Arizona Immigration Law. |
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| The Bishops of the Catholic Conference of Arizona are denouncing the proposed law making Arizona the only state in America to criminalize the existence of undocumented immigrants. The proposed legislation, now being looked over at the state ... |
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| March 08, 2010 |
| Irish support Immigration Reform |
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| The Leader of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform discussed Immigration Reform last Saturday. Mr. Staunton delivered a inspiring address at an ILIR gathering in Denver where he encouraged Irish Americans to recall that the Irish make up around ... |
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| March 05, 2010 |
| Obama looking to get Immigration bill started. |
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| President Obama has started to concentrate on immigration, next week he will meet with two Senators at the White House to draft up a bill on this problem. Nicholas Shapiro the White House spokesperson announced the President will convene with ... |
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| March 04, 2010 |
| The Positives of Immigration. |
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| One of the greatest contributions of immigrants is to help the American Society grow stronger and raise the economy, all the while increasing the standard of living for every United States citizen. Immigrants are also essential to America because: ... |
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| March 03, 2010 |
| People are standing up to the Tea Party. |
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| The news has reported about the Tea Party Convention first meeting in Tennesse from a handful of gathers. They sat and listened to racism and hate speeches. Cries of Obama is turning America into a third world county, the country is being over run by ... |
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| March 02, 2010 |
| Ben Bernanke pushing Government to Fix Immigration System. |
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| Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke meet with the Housing and Urban Affairs Committee recently. He talked about addressing the broken immigration system as a key componet to fixing this problem and that Congress should tackle this issue to ... |
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| March 01, 2010 |
| Sheriff Joe Arpaio |
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| With a Law Enforcement helicopter circling above, Sheriff Joe Arpaio stood behind a group of law enforcement officers as Ten thousand marchers walked past the county jail complex where the sheriff uses strong arm tactics and brutal polcies on ... |
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| February 26, 2010 |
| How America's Immigration Laws came about. |
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| 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 (INAA); and the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act ... |
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| February 25, 2010 |
| Hispanic voter Poll conducted. |
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| 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 way of phone interviews via English or Spanish. ... |
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| February 24, 2010 |
| Immigration Tidbit |
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| 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. This has never dropped below thriteen percent which ... |
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| February 23, 2010 |
| GOP wants to entice Hispanics at the polls. |
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| 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 white-male base diminishing, party leaders are ... |
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| February 22, 2010 |
| The momentum is growing for Immigration Reform. |
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| 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 Senator Michael Bennet was given a tongue ... |
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| February 19, 2010 |
| Republican legislation wants to limit who inherently becomes a U.S. citizen at birth. |
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| 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 things a bit more problematic. Now many ... |
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| February 18, 2010 |
| More Troubles for Obama and Democrats. |
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| 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 translated headline reads 'No more Empty Words." ... |
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| February 17, 2010 |
| The Catholic Church continues it push for Comprehensive immigration reform. |
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| 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 Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2010 and on the ... |
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| February 16, 2010 |
| Over 12,000 Haitians apply for TPS so far. |
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| 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 earhtquake. The amount of people applying have been ... |
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| February 15, 2010 |
| AZ Sheriff collides with US government. |
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| 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 officiers of racial profiling numerous Latino's. A United ... |
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| February 12, 2010 |
| Sheriff Arpaio on a collision course with U.S. government. |
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| 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 States government. By the end of last year the ... |
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| February 11, 2010 |
| United States not so enticing as the Land of Opportunity. |
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| 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 almost 12 million undocumented immigrants in the ... |
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| February 10, 2010 |
| The ABA thinks it has a solution to the broken immigration system. |
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| 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 abandoned the existing system and make a useable, ... |
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| February 09, 2010 |
| How important will the immigration reform issue be for Hispanic voters in the Midterm elections? |
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| 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 summarized around forty mid-term contests where ... |
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| February 08, 2010 |
| Austin Federal Judge looks into Prosecution costs. |
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| 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 concerns over the cost of prosecution of 3 Mexican ... |
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| February 05, 2010 |
| Hearing for President Obama's Aunt for asylum. |
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| 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 statement after giving testimony for over two hours in ... |
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| February 04, 2010 |
| Oklahoma immigration law loses battle. |
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| 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 government list of eligible workers. In a divided ... |
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| February 03, 2010 |
| Army Vet sues ICE. |
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| 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 Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the officers who ... |
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| February 02, 2010 |
| CIR supporters are organizing a national mobilization on March 21. |
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| 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 is feared that Hispanics will stay away from ... |
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| February 01, 2010 |
| The National Latino Congreso. |
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| 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 administration. Members at the initial National Latino ... |
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| January 29, 2010 |
| Disappointing State of the Union regarding Immigration Reform. |
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| 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 needing to fix the broken immigration system is ... |
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| January 28, 2010 |
| The good work of Catholic Charities. |
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| 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 Catholic Charities bureaus and to promote professional ... |
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| January 27, 2010 |
| Haiti Relief Efforts |
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| 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 Haiti earthquakes and that have close family in ... |
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| January 26, 2010 |
| Maybe not so fast about Killing CIR in 2010 |
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| 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% of voters approves of comprehensive immigration ... |
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| January 25, 2010 |
| Pushing back Immigrantion Reform to 2011? |
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| 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 permission to visit the US (travel visa), or God ... |
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| January 22, 2010 |
| CIR group rallies in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
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| 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 inhabitants of Las Vegas Nevada to the national campaign on ... |
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| January 21, 2010 |
| A CIR rally in Raleigh, S.C. |
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| 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 America spotlighted by speeches from a collection of ... |
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| January 20, 2010 |
| Protests against Sheriff Joe Arpaio |
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| 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 wanted to convey they disapprove of Arpaio policies ... |
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| January 19, 2010 |
| Haiti News |
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| 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 (DHS), Janet Napolitano authorized the Temporary ... |
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| January 18, 2010 |
| Prositution ring busted in South Texas. |
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| 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 Elizabeth Mendez Vasquez are both undocumented ... |
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| January 15, 2010 |
| Debate continues about economic impact of immigration reform. |
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| 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 worsen the economy or help it recover. This answer ... |
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| January 14, 2010 |
| Catholic Bishops start their push for Immigratratiom Reform. |
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| 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 comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) this year. They ... |
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| January 13, 2010 |
| Dayton Police Chief stops his officers from questioning immigration status. |
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| 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 racial communities have with the police. Biehl ... |
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| January 12, 2010 |
| Believe it or Not! |
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| 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 this practice is Oyster Bay in New York's Nassau ... |
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| January 11, 2010 |
| Officials conceal truth on how immigrants died in detention centers. |
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| 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 records paint a different picture, this ... |
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| January 08, 2010 |
| Catholic Bishop urges Immigration Reform. |
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| 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 Catholics to push for comprehensive immigration ... |
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| January 07, 2010 |
| Date Extended for U Nonimmigrant Interim Relief. |
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| 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 I-918, Petition for U Nonimmigrant Status, by 02/ ... |
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| January 06, 2010 |
| TSA new measures after failed bomb attempt. |
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| 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 flight. Because of this incident the ... |
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| January 05, 2010 |
| Recent Visa Bulletin for January 2010. |
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| 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 of weeks or months in the majority of ... |
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| January 04, 2010 |
| Some Immigration programs extended to end of September 2012 |
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| 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 Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act of 2010 ... |
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| January 01, 2010 |
| Happy New Year!!!! |
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| 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 year. We have realized much in 2009 - from coming ... |
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| December 31, 2009 |
| Military assists in Accelerated Naturalization for Legal Immigrants. |
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| Over Ten-thousand military servicemen and women became United States citizens last year through a project that gives naturalization to qualified people in the military. This number shows the largest number since the Vietnam War. Usually, the ... |
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| December 30, 2009 |
| Religous groups pushing the Census. |
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| Hispanic leaders know that the correct count on the national scene is important to getting correct representation in the government. Churches are encouraging their parishioners to participate in the Census next year. They feel that their community ... |
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