Monday, January 9, 2012

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Legislative Update

FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 9, 2012

 

USCIS Leaders Improperly Pressured Officers to Approve Visa Applications

email imageThis week, the Office of the Inspector General released a report that reveals that senior U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials are pressuring employees to rubber-stamp applications for immigration benefits despite questions of fraud or ineligibility. The report is based largely on a survey of over 250 rank-and-file USCIS officers.

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DHS Administratively Skirts Statutory Bars to Admission

email imageFriday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) proposed a new rule that would help illegal aliens skirt the statutory 3 and 10-year bars to admission. The rule seeks to allow illegal alien relatives of U.S. citizens to stay in the U.S. while seeking waivers from the law, rather than doing so from outside the country.

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Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Georgia Ag Industry Minimal, Report Finds

email imageLast week, the Georgia Department of Agriculture released a report documenting that the impact of the state's new immigration enforcement law, H.B.87, on the agriculture industry was far less than anticipated. Highlighted in the Report on Agricultural Labor, are the results of a 36-question survey the state sent to over 4,000 agriculture producers, processors and other individuals in professions related to agriculture. The state received 811 responses: 55 percent of the responses were from growers; 46 percent were from agricultural employers reporting $500,000 or more in annual income.

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California DREAM Act to Stand

email imageCalifornia Assemblyman and true immigration reformer, Tim Donnelly (R-Twin Peaks), announced Friday that his referendum campaign to overturn the California DREAM Act (AB 131) has been unsuccessful.  Despite a hard-fought campaign by Donnelly and his group of dedicated activists, Donnelly conceded that petitioners were only able to obtain 447,514 of the 504,760 signatures needed by the deadline in order to qualify the question for the November 2012 ballot.

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