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On December 15, 2009, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (Illinois) introduced the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity (CIR ASAP) Act of 2009. Among many other provisions, CIR ASAP would repeal the 287(g) program only allowing the federal governments to enforce federal immigration law.
Section 287 (g) was added to the Immigration and Nationality Act [...]
With an escalation in employer inspections by United States Immigration and Citizenship Services (USCIS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Department of Labor (DOL), it has become vital that employers with H-1B employees have their H-1B Public Access Files in order.
What Documents Should be in a H-1B Public Access File?
To avoid potential costly fines, [...]
On November 19, 2009, at a program titled “2009 Government and Employers: Working Together to Ensure a Legal Workforce,” USCIS’ Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) office’s Chief of Staff, Ronald Atkinson, clarified the three types of employer site visits/inspection programs currently being conducted. The following types of employer site visits/inspections programs are funded through [...]
On September 23, 2009, Ms. Maria Refugia Camarillo, a 72-year-old grandmother, was sentenced to serve 44 months in federal prison for operating a marriage fraud ring from 1980s until 2008. Ms. Camarillo had been investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Social Security Administration’s Office of Inspector [...]
On August 7, 2009, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) announced that Shipley Do-Nut Flour and Supply Company, Inc. (“Shipley”) was sentenced to court supervision, forfeiture of $1.334 million to ICE, and a criminal fine of $250,000 for conspiring to harbor illegal aliens. In addition, three company managers and the company owner were sentenced to six [...]
Today, August, 6, 2009, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) has announced an overhaul of the current immigration detention system. Currently, when foreign nationals are arrested for immigration violations or other offenses that affect their immigration status, they are detained in one of over 350 decentralized, penal institutions. The institutions are either jails operated by [...]