24 State Lawsuits Later – What’s the Future of the New Obama Executive Order, and Other Important Questions?
Published: December 9, 2014 Last month, President Obama announced his plan to implement an Executive Order aimed at benefiting millions of mostly undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. To say...
Obama’s New Executive Order: Who is covered? What benefits are available? When can you file? What are the risks?
Published: November 24, 2014 President Obama’s Executive Action: Who Benefits? What are the Benefits? When Are the Benefits Available? While some disagree whether it should be called an amnesty, or...
What’s Next for Immigration Reform?
Published: November 13, 2014 The next 45 days should be real interesting. President Obama put off any executive action on immigration until after the mid-term elections, where we all know...
Obama Takes Foot Off Accelerator on Immigration
Published: September 10, 2014 First the U.S. Senate was ready to act on immigration. Then, the House of Representatives was not. Then President Obama was ready to act without congressional...
A Showdown on Immigration: It’s High Noon In Washington D.C
Published: July 28, 2014 First, some important facts. Last year, the U.S. Senate passed legislation to allow for the legalization of the vast majority of our nation’s undocumented population, now...
Immigration Drama Likely To Ignite By End of Summer
Published: June 1, 2014 The stars continue to line up for the eventual enactment of a program to allow our nation’s undocumented to obtain some sort of legal status. Exactly...
UPDATE: Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Published: March 25, 2014 Almost 2 years after the implementation of the DACA program our nation continues to await enactment of a comprehensive immigration reform measure to allow for a...
Immigration Reform Update: Boehner Floats a Plan, Senate Republicans Run For Cover
Published: February 4, 2014 Not since the days of the “I was for it, before I was against it” explanation, have I gotten such a chuckle from our nation’s political theater. Given the tragic...
U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Launch Major Initiative To Advance Immigration Reform
Published: January 9, 2014 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a major pro-business private association and lobbying group is set to invest at least $50 million in 2014 mid-term elections to...
Immigration Reform Around the Corner? Or Just More Blah Blah Blah…?
Published: January 8, 2014 With regard to our nation’s ongoing conversation about immigration laws and the 11 million undocumented folks living among us, several significant (according to some) developments have...