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On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced a plethora of immigration benefits to fix many of the problems with US immigration law.  One of these was to expand deferred action to provide relief to some undocumented parents of US citizen and legal permanent resident children (DAP).  Deferred action is a type of prosecutorial discretion whereby READ MORE

On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced his immigration reform plan to provide deportation relief for certain undocumented workers and streamline the immigration process for highly-skilled workers in the US.  His executive actions on immigration include the following: 1.  Deferred Action for Parents (DAP):  Parents of US citizens and lawful permanent residents (of any age) READ MORE

On June 27, 2013, in a vote of 68-32, the US Senate passed comprehensive immigration legislation (S. 744 “Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Reform Act.”)  Passage of this bill is important, although it is not perfect, in order to advance real immigration reform, including increasing the number of visas for legal immigration (family and employment-based), READ MORE

Senator Charles Schumer (Democrat of NY) predicts that the Senate could pass the pending immigration reform legislation proposed by the bipartisan Gang of Eight by July 4th and that a strong vote in favor of it could sway the House Republicans.  Schumer hopes it will win 70 votes, including almost a majority of Republicans.  In the meantime, the Chairman of the READ MORE

In an April 27th editorial, the Wall Street Journal (WJS) supports immigration reform as the quintessential economic stimulus.  It states, “Immigrants are a smaller proportion of the U.S. population than in periods such as the late 1890s and 1910s, when immigrants gave the economy a jolt of growth.”  It then goes on to praise immigrants as READ MORE