STEM Jobs Act Faces Roadblock in US Senate
The STEM Jobs Act for immigrant higher degree graduates is facing major hurdle in the United Sates Senate after approved by the US House earlier this month. Republicans majority led House passed the Act that would replace 55,000 Diversity Lottery Visas by same number of visas for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduates from [...]
United States House of Representative have voted in favour of an immigration reform law called STEM Jobs Act on this Friday November 30, 2012 y a margin of 245 to 139. The Act will remove the diversity lottery visas and allow up to 55000 new green cards for foreign students graduating from the US universities. [...]
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US Affordable Care Act will Adversely Affect Medical Treatment of Illegal Immigrants
July 28, 2012 No Comment
United States new health care law known as Affordable Care Act is creating a serious and adverse affect on the health care centers in the country. The Law that is bound to cut short the annual reimbursements of $20 billion, paid by the United States government to different Medical centers and hospitals down to $10 [...]
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Undocumented immigrants residing in Phoenix, Arizona in the United States, have come together to arrange and organize a cross country bus trip in protest of the maltreatment of their communities at the hands of certain law enforcement agencies in certain States in the country. They also aim at protesting against anti-immigrant policies being enforced in [...]
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Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, denies accusations that he and his department adopted racial discrimination during immigration sweeps in the area. While testifying in a class-action Lawsuit, Arpaio said that he is strictly against racial profiling. He said that even today after serving 50 years as Sheriff of this county he opposes anyone racial [...]
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In the ongoing immigration issue in the United States, another trend has found its way into the state administrations. The state of Texas has decided to follow the footprints of Florida in using federal immigration database to filter the voter rolls from fraudulently registered undocumented immigrants. Esperanza ‘Hope’ Andrade, the Texas secretary of the state, [...]
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The apprehension of individuals for violating the United States immigration regulations are at a record low in the last 40 years according to a report released by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) . The 2010 figures amount up to 516,992 apprehensions, a decline in number as compared to 1.8 million apprehensions ten [...]
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People in the southern state of Florida are showing almost significant support for the immigration reforms being introduce in the country, official polls depict. Particularly in the areas where immigrants are in rich quantities, people are in support of the comprehensive immigration reforms. They say that such reforms would bring about positive change in the [...]
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The National Archives Exhibit has given immigrants an opportunity to know what exactly the conditions of immigrants were from the 1880s till the end of World War 2. The exhibit, called ‘Attachments: faces and stories from America’s Gates’, is on display in the National Archives building in Washington. It contains black and white photographs and [...]
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Fatemah Asadi was finally able to get her green card after waiting for 5 years. She had filed a lawsuit against this long delay in processing her green card application by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2007. Asadi came to the United States as a refugee from Iran with her husband Rahmat [...]
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