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Latest News in Immigration
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October 18, 2017
Cuban Ballplayer Smuggler Wants Feds' Visa Records
A Florida sports trainer awaiting sentencing for smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. on Tuesday asked a federal judge to force the government to hand over visa records for 20 other players granted entry since his conviction, saying they followed a similar path to the country and prove a lack of fraud on his part.
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October 18, 2017
Trump Ordered By NY, Calif. Courts To Provide DACA Docs
Federal judges in California and New York on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to produce a broad range of internal documents detailing how the government reached the conclusion last month to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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October 18, 2017
Sessions Defends Trump Admin On Immigration At Senate
Attorney General Jeff Sessions hailed the administration’s halt of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, its defense of the travel ban and other administration actions Wednesday, telling a Senate panel Congress should go further to “end the lawlessness” nationwide.
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October 18, 2017
A 6-Month Reflection On 'Buy American And Hire American'
Reading the text of President Donald Trump’s “Buy American and Hire American" executive order, most commentators believed that the likelihood of immediate and substantive changes to the employment-based immigration system were minimal. However, as we cross the order’s six-month anniversary, the reality has been sharply different, says Jacob Cherry of Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.
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October 17, 2017
States Sue Trump Admin. Over Immigration Records Request
Nine states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Massachusetts federal court on Tuesday, claiming it had failed to respond to a records request regarding detentions and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program within the proper time frame.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- U.S. Department of Justice, Board of Immigration Appeals
- U.S. Department of Labor, Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals
- U.S. Department of State
- State immigration regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
- Immigration and Nationality Act
- Immigration Reform and Control Act
- Civil Rights Act
- Asylum and refugee regulations
- Executive actions on immigration
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Employment-related immigration rules
- State immigration legislation and regulation
- Immigration lobbying
- ENFORCEMENT
- Immigration probes and enforcement actions
- Detainment and deportation orders
- Human trafficking investigations
- LITIGATION
- Challenges to immigration policy and enforcement actions
- National origin and citizenship discrimination complaints
- Worker visa disputes
- Citizenship litigation
- Civil rights and detainment suits
- Employment suits involving immigrant workers, including wage-and-hour, discrimination and harassment, and worker safety actions
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of immigration practices
Readership
- Immigration and employment lawyers at top law firms
- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals