CUTTING EDGE INFO
May 2013
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• Immigration Deaths Surge In South Texas (December 30, 2012)

• Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals Process (August 6, 2012)
  

• New Developments In Unlawful Presence Waivers (March 30, 2012)

• Alabama Rethinks Tough Immigration Law (December 9, 2011)

• H-1B Cap Reached (November 23, 2011)

• H-1B Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 Cap Season (November 15, 2011)
  

• Hispanic Students Absent From Alabama Schools Following Controversial Immigration Law (October 4, 2011)
  

• Obama Administration's Announcement. New policy is not an Amnesty (August 22, 2011)
  
  
• Advisory on Prosecutorial Discretion (June 24, 2011)
  
  
• Section 235(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(1)(A)(i) (2006), does not limit the prosecutorial discretion of the Department of Homeland Security to place arriving aliens in removal proceedings under section 240 of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1229a (2006). (June 3, 2011)
  
  
• Motions To Suppress In Removal Proceedings (May 31, 2011)
  
  
• Detention and Bond (April 21, 2011)
  
  
• April Visa Bulletin (March 10, 2011)
  
  
• I-9 Timeliness (March 10, 2011)
  
  
• Birthright Citizenship & Amending the Constitution
  (January 30, 2011)
  
  
• President Obama on the DREAM Act: "My Administration Will Not Give Up" (December 18, 2010)
  
  
• Attorney General: The DREAM Act Must Be Passed (December 17, 2010)
  
  
• Senators' Reasons For Opposing Dream Act In Dire Need Of Truthfulness (December 10, 2010)
  
  
• Visa Bulletin For January 2011 (December 9, 2010)
  
  
• New Fee Schedule, Effective November 23, 2010
  
  
• Legal Rights For Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence
  (October 28, 2010)


• Applying For Citizenship? CIS wants to be your "friend."
(October 12, 2010)


• Attention Employers: How ICE Chooses Employers and How to Manage an I-9 Audit (October 7, 2010)


• Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill Introduced in the Senate (September 30, 2010)
  
  
• New Fee Schedule (September 24, 2010)


• DS 260: Electronic Application For Immigrant Visa (August 3, 2010)
  
  
• The United States v. Arizona (July 8, 2010)


• Supreme Court Injects Reason into Immigration Felony Definition
  June 15, 2010
  
  
• Academics Condemn Arizona Immigration Law (June 14, 2010)
  
  
• Clinton: Obama wants immigration reform passed this year
  (June 12, 2010)


• Questions and Answers: USCIS Reminds Guatemalans of Certain Immigration Benefits Available (June 10, 2010)
  
  
• Immigration Advocates Rally for Change (May 1, 2010)


• AMERICA'S TOUGHEST IMMIGRATION LAW IS SIGNED IN ARIZONA (April 23, 2010)
  
  
  • But Is it constitutional? Apart from racial profiling, isn't immigration law an area left exclusively to the federal government? Aren't states and local governments preempted from playing a role? Not necessarily, according to one constitutional scholar: The Constitutional Dimension of Immigration Federalism.
    
    
• ARIZONA PASSES STRICT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ACT
  (April 13, 2010)



• THE COSTS OF MASS DEPORTATION: Impractical, Expensive and Ineffective (March 19, 2010)