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E-Verify Regulation Postponed, Possibly Tabled
The Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify system, which checks the employment eligibility of workers against U.S. immigration records, was set to go into effect Jan. 15.
But staring at a pending lawsuit and general anger from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, DHS cut a deal with the Chamber yesterday, delaying the system’s implimentation until February 20. The change in timing will put the regulation, subject to an executive order, on President-elect Obama’s table after he takes office.
The business community is hoping that might mean the end of the issue.
Illegal Immigrant Convictions – Due Process Violation or Model of Judicial Efficiency?
Civil Rights advocates are raising serious concerns over Immigration & Customs’s raid on the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, IA, and the quick trials and sentencing that happened next. Over 230 illegal immigrants were charged and sentenced to jail instead of deported.
YouTube, Brute?
Regardless of where you think their loyalty lies in the user privacy debate, it’s hard to deny that YouTube is awesome.
That’s why, I assume, NY law firm Cohen & Grigsby thought it would be so awesome to put their immigration seminar on the super-popular site. Though, I doubt they thought it would be quite as [...]