The UAE’s Ministry of Labor announced plans to use online filing system to speed up the application process for work permits across the country. In the existing system, a representative from the company must go to the ministry’s physical location to apply for a work permit, a process that unnecessarily…
Some call this the strictest immigration bill ever introduced, is going through the Arizona legislature. If the bill becomes law, one of its provisions would allow local police to check a person’s immigration status. Currently, that right is reserved for federal agents. Arizona’s largest police union, the Phoenix Law Enforcement…
Immigration reform has been put on the back burner for the past year or so. It has been eclipsed by debates over health care reform and job creation. But for many rural farming communities, at least in the West, it’s an issue that continues to burn. Out in Eastern Colorado,…
Another step towards Immigration enforcement by policee. Now in California. San Joaquin is one of the latest counties to be part of a Department of Justice and Homeland Security initiative that checks the immigration status of those booked into its jails San Joaquin and Stanislaus now join eight other counties…
Acoording to Haarez Magazine even as health care reform twists in the wind, immigration policy looms as the next big political debate, and Hispanics and Jews are moving to the forefront in a burgeoning political alliance. The next three months are seen as critical in the fight for immigration reform,…
As Haiti reels from a devastating earthquake that flattened buildings and left thousands of people trapped under rubble, three Republicans from Florida are calling on President Obama to do what President Bush never did — grant temporary protected status to undocumented Haitians living in the U.S. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart…
Most permanent residents think that just by having the Green Card they are safe from deportation, they should think again. When Jose Angel Carachuri-Rosendo was just 4 years old, his family moved from Mexico to Texas as legal U.S. immigrants. As the years passed, Carachuri-Rosendo firmly planted roots in the…
So as the year comes to an end, what will be the future of Immigration reform. President Obama’s administration has told immigration reform backers the president is committed to giving illegal immigrants a path to U.S. citizenship, officials said. Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina and other top officials delivered…