Alabama immigration law leaves schools gripped by uncertainty
"A provision in the Alabama immigration law forces public schools to check the immigration status of new students. Schools are scrambling to determine the impact." CSM, Sept. 30, 2011. ... read more
Ask For Help
"USCIS helps protect victims of human trafficking and other crimes by providing immigration relief. Human trafficking, also known as trafficking in persons, is a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers lure individuals with false promises of employment and a better life." ... read more
CAP on Federal District Judge Ruling to Uphold Alabama’s “Papers Please” Law
"Driven by “anti-otherness,” Alabama and other states are trying to replace that single garment with an ugly patchwork quilt of unjust anti-immigrant laws. If Congress doesn’t act soon, this quilt threatens to smother the nation’s core values and destroy the social progress Dr. King and millions of others marched to achieve." CAP, Sept. 29, 2011. ... read more
Charles Wheeler on CSPA
"The most ambiguous and hotly contested provision in the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) concerns the status of derivative beneficiaries after they age out." ... read more
College student won't be deported to Bangladesh, for now
"A college student who grew up in New York has won a temporary reprieve from immigration officials who had threatened to deport her to her native Bangladesh, which she left as an infant when her mother brought her to the United States." L.A. Times, Sept. 30, 2011. ... read more
CRS on estimates of unauthorized aliens in U.S.
Unauthorized Aliens Residing in the United States: Estimates Since 1986, by Ruth Ellen Wasem, September 22, 2011. ... read more
DOL ETA Guidance: Wage Methodology for the Temporary Non-Agricultural Employment H–2B Program; Postponement of Effective Date; Impact on Prevailing Wage Determinations
"This document provides guidance to the employers who have received supplemental wage determinations based on the new prevailing wage methodology set forth in the Wage Rule, as to the prevailing wages that would apply before and after the new effective date of November 30, 2011." Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 190 / Friday, September 30, 2011. ... read more
Driven Ethiopian refugee wins SF State scholarship
"For her triumph against the odds, Abraham learned this month that she had won the William Randolph Hearst Award, a $3,000 scholarship bestowed by the California State University trustees. She was one of 23 winners across the 400,000-student system." SF Examiner, Sept. 28, 2011. ... read more
Good-bye BIBDE, hello ILC!
Dear BIB - Daily Edition Readers: You will still "see" BIBDE on Saturday, Oct. 1st and Sunday, Oct. 2nd, but on Monday, Oct. 3rd you will be "re-directed" to the LexisNexis Immigration Law Community. I hope to see you there! Thank you for your readership over the past six years! During this transition, should you have technical questions or problems, please write to Tracie Morris or Gregg Lawson at tracie.morris@lexisnexis.com or gregg.lawson@lexisnexis.com. ... read more
IIRAIRA 15 Years Later
"Today is an anniversary that will go virtually unnoticed. It marks 15 years since the Congress enacted the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRAIRA). For many practicing young lawyers who came into the field wanting to keep families united, this law suddenly changed the playing field tipping it in a way that made it even harder, and in many cases impossible, to seek justice. IIRAIRA made practicing immigration law that much more complex." David Leopold, Sept. 30, 2011. ... read more
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