Category Archives: Immigration

National Immigration Law Potential Changes and Challenges

On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced his “immigration accountability executive action.”  This program includes a number of changes to the immigration system.  One central change is to provide temporary relief for the parents of U.S. Citizens and lawful permanent residents. The President created this change, referred to as Deferred Action for Parents (DAP), in…
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Immigration: Comprehensive Reform vs. Piecemeal Reform

Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform are still going strong in the fight for passing one bill that would completely revamp our immigration system and deal, on a global basis, with border security, employment immigration, a path to citizenship for the Dreamers[1]and a way to handle the 11 million undocumented people currently living in the United…
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Additional Commentary to Margaret Stock’s Recent Blog Post: “Sessions amendment would harm military families.”

Additional Commentary to Margaret Stock’s Recent Blog Post: “Sessions’ amendment would harm military families” Margaret Stock, a renowned immigration attorney and retired Lieutenant Colonel of the U.S. Army, wrote a blog post Monday[1]pointing out that one of the proposed amendments by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to the immigration reform bill written by the “Gang of…
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