Bright and early on Friday morning, partner Raymond Fasano led a compelling panel discussion on detainers imposed by ICE against immigrants who are in the custody of a state or local jail. The question of how and why a non-citizen gets transferred from a criminal jail...
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Month: June 2013
Supreme Court strikes down key provision of DOMA: Same sex marriages will likely be able to allow for adjustment of status
This week the Supreme Court struck down a key provision if the Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, that defined "marriage" as a man-woman union and denied same-sex couples any federal benefits, including immigration benefits. The decision marks a landmark, watershed moment...
Senate passes immigration reform bill
Today the Senate passed the comprehensive immigration reform legislation (S. 744) by a vote of 68-32 (including 14 Republicans). The Senate should be applauded for recognizing how far the public has come in understanding how immigration reform is crucial to the future...
Latest Updates from the American Immigration Lawyers Association Annual Conference
Attending the annual conference of the American Immigration Lawyers Association in San Francisco are partners Raymond Fasano and Donald Madeo. Throughout the conference we will be sharing the latest news and information on our immigration laws. This morning's keynote...
“An Update from the AILA Conference: Some Good News for Families”
Expectations from experts on the subject are that the Family 2A preference category (spouses and children of Lawful Permanent Residents) will go current in the August Visa Bulletin! As of the current visa bulletin, F2A cases with priority dates of October 2011 (for...
Rand Paul to fellow Republicans: Are we the party of deportation? Rand Paul’s common sense approach to immigration reform
Please follow this link to the Wall Street Journal's interview of Rand Paul. This is an enlightening interview. Mr. Paul explains the importance of immigration reform to the Republican Party's survival and the dignity and respect that is associated with common sense...
Senate moves swiftly with Immigration Reform Bill: NYT reports new security amendments passed this evening
The Senate Immigration Reform is rapidly moving through the Senate. The New York Times reports this hour that the new border security measure has been approved. I blogged about this about 2 hours ago and I now have to update in light of the new vote. Hold on because...
Compromise in the Senate to get Immigration Reform Bill passed: Militarize the Border to answer security concerns
Last week witnessed the Senate acting as leaders in government in working on a compromise with respect to the Senate Immigration Reform bill. Two Republican Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and John Hoeven of North Dakota introduced amendments to the bill to bolster...
Promising signs for immigration reform from the House Republican leadership
As if my complaints about the Republican intransigence on immigration reform rang a bell in D.C., today yahoo.com reports that the House Republican leadership expects a immigration reform to be signed into law by the end of this year. Speaker John Boehner stated that,...
New Hampshire Republicans set commonsense example for the rest of the Republican Party on Immigration Reform
In my last blog posting, Immigration trapped in the vortex of politics in the House (Thursday June 6, 2013), I railed against what seemed to be the Republican party's intransigence on immigration reform. The Republican Party postured itself as the party of principle...
