The Obama Administration’s Secure Communities program can be a good way to deport those arrested by law enforcement who turn out to be in the U.S. illegally. When local police make an arrest, fingerprints are sent to an FBI data base to check for prior criminal conduct, warrants for arrest, and so forth. Under Secure […]
Prosecutorial Discretion – Obama Rule
As some may recall, the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a memorandum on June 17 2011, requiring that ICE agents and government attorneys exercise prosecutorial discretion when deciding who should be removed (deported) from the U.S. What is “prosecutorial discretion”? This is where the government could remove a foreigner from the U.S. for […]
Obama New Rule Concerning Illegal Aliens Is Not Amnesty
On January 6th, 2012, President Obama proposed a change in immigration rules that would allow certain foreigners who are in the U.S. illegally to preprocess on an I-601 bar waiver. All of the other rules regarding immigration are exactly the same, except for this one change. There is no amnesty for illegals. No one is […]
SPLC Law Suit over the Right to Marry in Alabama
The Southern Poverty Law Center just filed suit on behalf of couples in Alabama who are unable to marry because one of the couple is an illegal alien in the U.S. The complaint is that the Montgomery County Probate Office is unwilling to allow couples to marry if the couple cannot show lawful immigration status […]
Illegal Entry – 601 Bar Waiver
My parents brought my brother to the us from Mexico when he was 2 years old. He is now 31 years old and is getting married. He has no papers. Question My parents brought my brother to the us from Mexico when he was 2 years old. He is now 31 years old and is […]