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TN State Republicans Reject Immigration Study They Commissioned
Nashville Public Radio reports that Republican state legislators, in an effort to demonstrate the strain that refugee services place on the tax-paying public, requested that the state Fiscal Review Committee investigate the impact of refuge resettlement in Tennessee....
Immigration Reform’s Last Chance in 2013
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a comprehensive immigration reform bill yesterday in an effort to keep immigration reform alive in 2013. The bill borrows heavily from the bill passed in the Senate earlier this year while incorporating border...
Impacts of Government Shutdown on Immigration
The shutdown of the U.S. government yesterday does impact some immigration services. Because USCIS is funded primarily by the filing fees paid by applicants, it is almost fully operational with the primary exception being the adjudication of asylum applications....
ICE Rejects 287(g) Program for Knox County
ICE has announced that Knox County's application for the 287(g) program, in which local law enforcement deputies perform ICE duties on the local government's dime, has been denied because the agency is not initiating any new 287(g) programs nationwide. Knox County...
Employers Who Unlawfully Hire Unauthorized Aliens Must Comply With Federal Employment Laws
The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a decision this week stating unequivocally that "employers who unlawfully hire unauthorized aliens must otherwise comply with federal employment laws," including payment of minimum wage and overtime pay under the Fair...
BIA Issues Precedent Decision on Same-Sex Marriages
Today the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a precedent decision recognizing same-sex marriages for all immigration purposes if the relationship is bona fide and the marriage was legal in the state in which it was entered.
