The Fourth Circuit held that private employment is a “benefit” under the Act, and that the petitioner, who falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen on Form I-9 for the purpose of seeking such employment, was inadmissible under INA §212(a)(6)(C)(ii)(I).

  The immigration reform update was waited for years years by millions. Brian Lerner explains that over 16 months ago, the U.S. Senate put together a comprehensive immigration package and sent it to the U.S. House to bring up for a vote and hopefully pass. However, the House just sat on the Bill and did …

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The American Immigration Council, the ACLU, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and the National Immigration Law Center filed a complaintagainst the federal government, challenging its policies which deny due process to refugee mothers and children being detained in Artesia, NM. The complaint asks the court to halt deportations, calling Artesia a “deportation …

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http://www.californiaimmigration.us The Associated Press reports that fewer unaccompanied immigrant children are crossing the Texas-Mexico border, allowing the federal government to close three temporary shelters. The decline could be the result of searing summer temperatures or a messaging campaign that stresses the dangers of the journey and warns them they will not be allowed to stay. …

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http://ow.ly/ArL4O The Seventh Circuit held the BIA abused its discretion in denying the continuance pending adjudication of the Form I-130, as a continuance was needed due to USCIS’s carelessness in losing supporting materials about the potential fraudulent nature of the petitioner’s second marriage.

http://ow.ly/ArKOn Reuters reports that as a result of Congress’s failure to pass a bill to address the humanitarian crisis at the border, DHS will transfer $405 million from other programs to deal with the crisis. The bulk of the transfer, about $270 million, will come from FEMA’s disaster relief fund. An additional $30 million will …

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http://ow.ly/ArKmF The Seventh Circuit remanded for the BIA to determine whether the petitioner took “substantial steps” to acquire permanent status within one year of his eligibility, as required under INA §203(h)(1)(A) prior to the BIA’s 2012 decision in Matter of O. Vasquez. The court found that retroactive application of the O. Vasquez rule, which requires …

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http://www.californiaimmigration.us The DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued the first of a series of monthly reports on detention conditions for unaccompanied alien children (UAC) in DHS custody. The first memorandum details 87 unannounced site visits conducted from July 1-16, 2014, at 63 detention centers along the U.S. southern border. The memorandum includes a facility …

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http://ow.ly/ArLcs As of August 1, 2014, USCIS receipted 26,345 beneficiaries toward the 33,000 H-2B cap for the second half of FY2014. This count includes 25,210 approved and 1,135 pending beneficiaries. Information on the first half of FY2015 is also available.

http://www.californiaimmigration.us The Washington Post reports that President Obama is preparing to announce new measures that would potentially allow millions of undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S. without fear of deportation.

http://ow.ly/zU4K5 According to documents obtained at the family immigration detention facility in Artesia, New Mexico, the U.S. government is refusing to release on bond Central American mothers and children who have fled violence in their home countries, or is setting bond so prohibitively high as to be meaningless.