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Opportunity for Immigrant Students: Essay Contest with Scholarship Prize

Lately, it feels as if immigrants have had more than their share of bad news and worries. That’s why we decided to search for positive opportunities as the subject for this week’s article. Fortunately, we have good news to report! USAttorneys.com announced a bi-annual scholarship contest for students who are immigrants. Here are the details, […]

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Top 5 Female Immigrants Who Inspire Us

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A few days ago, I was talking to my eight-year-old daughter about the story of the struggle women around the world have faced in getting the rights to vote, work, buy property and live independently. She was shocked. “Mom, why would things have ever been so unfair for women?” I tried to gently explain that

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Immigration Outlook with Donald Trump as President

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Since we found out the results of the presidential election earlier this month, our law practice has been flooded with people who are worried about what a Trump presidency might mean for immigrants. Will people who escaped domestic violence or war be forced to return to these situations? Will people who were brought here as

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Do You Know The Biggest Problems With Our Immigration System?

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While we have heard plenty of ideas regarding immigration reform in recent years, we need to focus on more common sense, practical solutions to our immigration problems. Before we can agree on what these solutions should be, we have to define and examine our problems. A border wall and detention (essentially jail time for undocumented

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What You Need to Know About Our Immigration Judges

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When most of us hear the words “immigration policy”, we think of border patrol, walls, paperwork or detention. Most of us don’t think about one of the most important elements in a workable immigration system: our judges. Right now, our immigration judges must deal with an incredible backlog of cases (approximately 512,000 as of August

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Are We a Nation That Welcomes Strangers?

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When I worked in a Santa Barbara bakery during college, I worked with a brilliant and creative young woman named Samantha Mouwad. From Lebanon, she had grown up in the suburbs of Dallas. I had moved from East Texas to California to get a different view of the world. Our friendship was immediate. Samantha told me

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The Importance of the Immigrant Voice: Voting Rights for the Foreign-Born

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Last Friday, Presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed that immigrants are pouring across the border “to vote.” This claim is just not true. While the Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged that there has been a surge of applications — as there often is in the months leading up to a presidential election — from immigrants

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Do Immigrants Take American Jobs? Find Out The Real Answer

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A complaint against immigrants that we often hear is, “They take our jobs.” Donald Trump, for example, said at a Phoenix, Arizona campaign rally in 2015, “I love the Mexican people … I respect Mexico … but the problem we have is that their leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our leaders,

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Immigrants in the Military: What You Need to Know

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Recently, there have been several news stories calling for a stop to the deportation of military veterans. The ACLU started a “Stop Deporting Veterans” campaign, and NPR ran an interview with a Marine veteran, Daniel Torres, who was deported to Mexico. We agree that the deportation of veterans – who have done so much for

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Immigration Politics: Trump’s Disturbing Plans

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This election season, we have heard some disturbing ideas regarding the future of immigration policy in our country. Donald Trump has proposed the following on his website: Mexico must pay for the border wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages; increase fees

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