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Undocumented Immigrants in U.S State of Illinois Might get Driver’s Licenses

The undocumented immigrants living in the US State of Illinois might be able to get a driver’s license if a new state law is passed. On Tuesday November 20th, 2012, a group of bipartisan state politicians in Illinois announced that they will be proposing a new law that would allow illegal aliens in the state [...]

November 21, 2012No CommentRead More

Massachusetts’ Countryside Health Care Uses IMAGE for Immigration Status Verification

November 14, 2012 No Comment

A non-profit nursing and rehabilitation facility in Massachusetts becomes one of many organizations to join the U.S immigration authorities IMAGE program, which provides quick verifications of the I-9 employment eligibility forms for local employers. The Countryside Health Care in Milford, Massachusetts, joined the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers (IMAGE) [...]

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Lawsuit filed for Access to Information on Immigration Enforcement in Georgia

October 26, 2012 No Comment

Georgia based immigrant rights groups have sued the U.S immigration authorities for access to information regarding Georgia Law enforcement agencies’ authority to take immigration related actions. This Wednesday October 24th, 2012, the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in the state of Georgia filed a lawsuit against [...]

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Alabama State Licensing Boards Unable to Comply with State Immigration Law Requirements

October 22, 2012 No Comment

Several State Licensing boards in Alabama are having a hard time getting approval of federal authorities to use a federal database system for verification of immigration status of legal immigrants in the state. Licensing boards are complaining that the process for granting them permission to use the federal dataset system, called Systematic Alien verification Entitlements [...]

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U.S Department of Homeland Security to Deport Thousand of Illegal Immigrants

October 16, 2012 No Comment

Despite continuous criticism against it, the U.S President’s executive initiative is successfully granting temporary residence permits to illegal immigrants in the country. U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced deportation reprieves for thousands of undocumented immigrants under U.S President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) according to the department’s statistics report released Friday [...]

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Are Deferred Deportation Beneficiaries Eligible for US DV Lottery Program?

October 4, 2012 No Comment

Beneficiaries of Obama administration’s Deferred Deportation program have been going through a lot of confusion regarding their eligibility for several state programs. Where a lot of states have decided to allow several public benefits to their beneficiaries of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), most have banned state departments from providing any facility to them. [...]

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US starts Deportation of Illegal Mexican Immigrants through Chartered Flights

October 3, 2012 No Comment

United States (U.S) has started deportation of illegal Mexican immigrants to Mexico through chartered flights as part of a new two month pilot program. On Tuesday October 2nd, 2012, a flight carrying more than hundred Mexican deportees left the El Paso International Airport for inner Mexican cities. Officials from U.S Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [...]

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US Immigration Officials to Condsider Same-Sex Relationships in Deportation Cases

September 30, 2012 No Comment
US Immigration Officials to Condsider Same-Sex Relationships in Deportation Cases

United States Immigration officials will be looking into the same-sex relationships during the decision making process of deportation in the similar was as heterosexual relationship. US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made the announcement this Thursday September 28th, 2012. Janet Napolitano has said that she will be sending written instructions to the immigration [...]

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US Undocumented Young Immigrants Adopting Wait-and-See Approach

September 24, 2012 No Comment
US Undocumented Young Immigrants Adopting Wait-and-See Approach

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the US Department for Homeland Security (DHS) officials which have been accepting and processing applications of deferred action from young illegal immigrants in the country have said that they have received only 5 percent of the expected 1.8 million applications since the beginning of the program. Immigration [...]

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US Immigration Suspends Enforcement of 287(g) Program in Alamance County

September 20, 2012 No Comment
US Immigration Suspends Enforcement of 287(g) Program in Alamance County

US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has decided to suspend the enforcement of the 287(g) program in the Alamance County in North Carolina due to reports against the County Sheriff’s office’s discriminatory activities of arresting and detaining members of the local Hispanic community. The ICE officials announced that they have ordered the County Sheriff’s office [...]

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