From Bender's Immigration Daily
Temporary Acceptance of H-1B Petitions Without LCAs
"U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is announcing a 120-day period in which it will temporarily accept H-1B petitions filed without Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) that have been certified by the Department of Labor (DOL)." USCIS, Nov. 5, 2009.
click on the title to see the press release.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Update: Lou Dobbs to Quit CNN - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com
Update: Lou Dobbs to Quit CNN - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com
Well what's next for my favorite pundit (remember the illegal immigrants carry Leprocy claims he made that were soundly debunked?
A job at FoxNews? He wouldn't be able to do much there that hasn't already been done. My guess is a run for political office.
Palin/Dobbs 2012? - brings a tear to my eye.
Well what's next for my favorite pundit (remember the illegal immigrants carry Leprocy claims he made that were soundly debunked?
A job at FoxNews? He wouldn't be able to do much there that hasn't already been done. My guess is a run for political office.
Palin/Dobbs 2012? - brings a tear to my eye.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
1,200 janitors fired in 'quiet' immigration raid | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ
1,200 janitors fired in 'quiet' immigration raid Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ
I think this story shows that immigration enforcement is alive and well under the Obama administration. This sort of enforcement is more effective and cost effective than the swat like raids of previous years. It is also more humane than surreptitiously whisking away parents into immigration detention while the children are still at school (as happened in the Bianco raids in Massachusetts).
Still, if this is not as emotionally disruptive to families - it is still disruptive of business. Perhaps some out of work US citizens or legal residents will end up with janitorial jobs now. But they won't stay in those jobs - and there won't be 1200 of them hired. The 1200 people who have lost their jobs will now stop contributing to the local economy. Some additional number of homes will likely now be foreclosed on. Some will leave and some will simply find other jobs (probably for lower wages in this economy).
So although this type of enforcement is much to be preferred over "cowboy justice" -- legalization and reform of our immigration and employment laws are needed to avoid prolonging this recession.
I think this story shows that immigration enforcement is alive and well under the Obama administration. This sort of enforcement is more effective and cost effective than the swat like raids of previous years. It is also more humane than surreptitiously whisking away parents into immigration detention while the children are still at school (as happened in the Bianco raids in Massachusetts).
Still, if this is not as emotionally disruptive to families - it is still disruptive of business. Perhaps some out of work US citizens or legal residents will end up with janitorial jobs now. But they won't stay in those jobs - and there won't be 1200 of them hired. The 1200 people who have lost their jobs will now stop contributing to the local economy. Some additional number of homes will likely now be foreclosed on. Some will leave and some will simply find other jobs (probably for lower wages in this economy).
So although this type of enforcement is much to be preferred over "cowboy justice" -- legalization and reform of our immigration and employment laws are needed to avoid prolonging this recession.
Monday, November 9, 2009
DHS readies plan to track foreigners flying from U.S. - washingtonpost.com
DHS readies plan to track foreigners flying from U.S. - washingtonpost.com
by Spencer S. Hsu
The Department of Homeland Security is finalizing a proposal to collect fingerprints or eye scans from all foreign travelers at U.S. airports as they leave the country, officials said, a costly screening program that airlines have opposed.
The plan, which would take effect within two years, would collect fingerprints at airport security checkpoints, departure gates or terminal kiosks, allowing the government to track when roughly 35 million foreign visitors a year leave the country and who might be overstaying their visas, DHS officials said. The department plans to send the proposal to the White House as soon as next month for review and inclusion in President Obama's next budget.
Well, security is important - I'll grant that. But if I was a potential tourist looking to visit the USA I might start looking for somewhere else to spend my vacation money. Somewhere that doesn't treat guests like criminals.
by Spencer S. Hsu
The Department of Homeland Security is finalizing a proposal to collect fingerprints or eye scans from all foreign travelers at U.S. airports as they leave the country, officials said, a costly screening program that airlines have opposed.
The plan, which would take effect within two years, would collect fingerprints at airport security checkpoints, departure gates or terminal kiosks, allowing the government to track when roughly 35 million foreign visitors a year leave the country and who might be overstaying their visas, DHS officials said. The department plans to send the proposal to the White House as soon as next month for review and inclusion in President Obama's next budget.
Well, security is important - I'll grant that. But if I was a potential tourist looking to visit the USA I might start looking for somewhere else to spend my vacation money. Somewhere that doesn't treat guests like criminals.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Wiggiblawg Exclusive! Manchester USCIS and ICE moving!
Here is some immigration news content you can't yet get anywhere else. Google it! Bing it! I dare ya. USCIS Manchester is moving and so is ICE. It may still be a little while but USCIS is moving from 803 Canal Street in Manchester to a new building in Bedford, NH. Here is a map:
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The new address appears as though it will be near 182 Palomino Lane in Bedford. I will take a picture of the new building when I get a chance. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be moving to the Norris Cotton Federal Building in Manchester. This will probably happen a while down the road...but will undoubtedly happen. I hope the Immigration Court moves an Immigration Judge and a couple of Government trial attorneys into the building as well.
Anyway the Gold's Corner Plaza can go back to being an ordinary mini-mall without the high volume of visitors to US Immigration and the Department of Motor Vehicles (which has been gone a couple of years now if I remember correctly).
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The new address appears as though it will be near 182 Palomino Lane in Bedford. I will take a picture of the new building when I get a chance. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be moving to the Norris Cotton Federal Building in Manchester. This will probably happen a while down the road...but will undoubtedly happen. I hope the Immigration Court moves an Immigration Judge and a couple of Government trial attorneys into the building as well.
Anyway the Gold's Corner Plaza can go back to being an ordinary mini-mall without the high volume of visitors to US Immigration and the Department of Motor Vehicles (which has been gone a couple of years now if I remember correctly).
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Poultry firm fined $1.5 million after immigration raid, monitoring -- baltimoresun.com
Poultry firm fined $1.5 million after immigration raid, monitoring -- baltimoresun.com
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Following a massive raid at the Greenville plant last year, Columbia Farms was charged with intentionally hiring illegal immigrants. A McClatchy Newspapers investigation of workplace safety in the poultry industry spurred the federal probe.
Under the agreement, the government will dismiss charges against the company if it improves its hiring practices over the next two years and submits to federal monitoring at its eight plants in the Carolinas and Louisiana.
"Our goal is not to punish corporations and force them to cut jobs, especially in these economic times," Walt Wilkins, U.S. Attorney for South Carolina, told McClatchy Newspapers. "Our goal is to make them a responsible corporate citizen. And this agreement accomplishes all of that."
The settlement stipulates that "Columbia Farms accepts responsibility for its actions associated with the employment of unauthorized workers."
House of Raeford has already begun revamping its hiring practices, Wilkins said. Over the past year, a newly hired corporate compliance officer has audited hiring procedures to ensure they conform to federal laws. "I am confident that we are seeing a true change in these companies' approach to hiring," Wilkins said.
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Following a massive raid at the Greenville plant last year, Columbia Farms was charged with intentionally hiring illegal immigrants. A McClatchy Newspapers investigation of workplace safety in the poultry industry spurred the federal probe.
Under the agreement, the government will dismiss charges against the company if it improves its hiring practices over the next two years and submits to federal monitoring at its eight plants in the Carolinas and Louisiana.
"Our goal is not to punish corporations and force them to cut jobs, especially in these economic times," Walt Wilkins, U.S. Attorney for South Carolina, told McClatchy Newspapers. "Our goal is to make them a responsible corporate citizen. And this agreement accomplishes all of that."
The settlement stipulates that "Columbia Farms accepts responsibility for its actions associated with the employment of unauthorized workers."
House of Raeford has already begun revamping its hiring practices, Wilkins said. Over the past year, a newly hired corporate compliance officer has audited hiring procedures to ensure they conform to federal laws. "I am confident that we are seeing a true change in these companies' approach to hiring," Wilkins said.
click the link above to read the rest of the story
Monday, November 2, 2009
Ruben Navarrette In Dallas watch your language - Press-Telegram
Ruben Navarrette: In Dallas watch your language-Press-Telegram
Today, at least 20 patrol officers of the Dallas Police Department - ranging from a rookie to a 13-year veteran - are in hot water after ticketing 38 motorists since 2007 for not speaking English. The problem - this isn't even a crime. Not in Dallas or anywhere else in the United States.
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I posted this not because of the DWM aspect and the racial bias that it presupposes - rather it was this passage that got my attention...
"During these turbulent times, you can tell by the way that people look at you," he said. "My wife has told me: `Have you noticed the difference in the way that they look at us these days?' And you have to admit there's something there that you just can't identify. Attitudes have definitely hardened because of the harsh debate over immigration and other things like that."
Yes, I think that is fair to say - attitudes have hardened. Attitudes about immigration and alot of other things as well. Sometimes it feels like this country is all about harsh attitudes on some issue or other and is about little else.
I have worked in this field now for over a decade and I have noticed that if you want to treat people badly you have to objectify them, you have to name them so you don't have to think of them as actual human beings that you are being nasty to. So calling people "illegals" or "criminaliens" allows one to think it is OK to look down on them and consider them unworthy as people compared to we citizens.
Americans (possibly humans in general) seem to have a need to define themselves by figuring out who they don't like. The man quoted above is a former Texas Police Officer not an illegal immigrant. I hope that the people that are giving he and his wife the sideways glances might come to realize that all Latinos are not illegal immigrants. Maybe someday those same people might come to the conclusion that people who immigrated here illegally are also people - not actual "aliens" to be feared and hated.
Even if people must return to their home countries - I think it would be better for everyone if America could do that without the becoming as mean, petty and racist about it as some government and media opinon leaders have proven to be recent years.
Today, at least 20 patrol officers of the Dallas Police Department - ranging from a rookie to a 13-year veteran - are in hot water after ticketing 38 motorists since 2007 for not speaking English. The problem - this isn't even a crime. Not in Dallas or anywhere else in the United States.
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I posted this not because of the DWM aspect and the racial bias that it presupposes - rather it was this passage that got my attention...
"During these turbulent times, you can tell by the way that people look at you," he said. "My wife has told me: `Have you noticed the difference in the way that they look at us these days?' And you have to admit there's something there that you just can't identify. Attitudes have definitely hardened because of the harsh debate over immigration and other things like that."
Yes, I think that is fair to say - attitudes have hardened. Attitudes about immigration and alot of other things as well. Sometimes it feels like this country is all about harsh attitudes on some issue or other and is about little else.
I have worked in this field now for over a decade and I have noticed that if you want to treat people badly you have to objectify them, you have to name them so you don't have to think of them as actual human beings that you are being nasty to. So calling people "illegals" or "criminaliens" allows one to think it is OK to look down on them and consider them unworthy as people compared to we citizens.
Americans (possibly humans in general) seem to have a need to define themselves by figuring out who they don't like. The man quoted above is a former Texas Police Officer not an illegal immigrant. I hope that the people that are giving he and his wife the sideways glances might come to realize that all Latinos are not illegal immigrants. Maybe someday those same people might come to the conclusion that people who immigrated here illegally are also people - not actual "aliens" to be feared and hated.
Even if people must return to their home countries - I think it would be better for everyone if America could do that without the becoming as mean, petty and racist about it as some government and media opinon leaders have proven to be recent years.
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