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If you are married to a U.S. citizen, then you are considered an "immediate relative" under the immigration laws. That means that, in theory at least, you can apply for an immigrant visa (green card). However, anyone can be denied a green card if found inadmissible.

Bernie Sanders says the nation’s trade policy is partly to blame for expanded illegal immigration, arguing that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has worsened economic and political conditions in Latin America. In response to a questionnaire published by the The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA) Monday, the Democratic presidential candidate said NAFTA was supposed to "significantly reduce the flow of undocumented immigrants into this country," but hist...ory has demonstrated the opposite." NAFTA was approved under President Clinton. Sanders has attacked his rival in the White House race, Hillary Clinton, for supporting the trade pact in the 1990s, arguing it created lost jobs and a race to the bottom. In her answers to the NHLA questionnaire, Hillary Clinton did not address the root causes of illegal immigration, though she declared herself a supporter of comprehensive immigration reform and a "humane and targeted" enforcement system.

Remittances are a big part of the Mexican economy nearly $25 billion was sent to the country from Mexicans living abroad in 2015. And, again, the money has the biggest impact in the rural and poorer regions of the country where economic opportunity is lessened. When you cut off that source of economic support, as Trump is proposing to do, you’re making economic conditions inside Mexico that much worse, which will you guessed it impel more people in cross the border into the United States in search of opportunity. The Trump plan to fight undocumented immigration is specially engineered to create more of the problem it intends to solve.

The school was a sham from beginning to end and it was created by federal authorities, who used it to arrest 21 people on charges they conspired to help more than 1,000 foreigners fraudulently keep or obtain student or work visas over the past 2 years. The defendants whose arrests were announced Tuesday knew the school was bogus, as did the foreigners, who pretended to be students there in order to stay in the U.S., authorities said. But they didn’t know it was set up as p...art of a sting by undercover agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Most of the foreigners who benefited from the scam were from China and India and were already in the U.S. on student visas, federal prosecutors said. Officials said they have been identified and will be dealt with by immigration authorities meaning they could face deportation but won’t be prosecuted. http://nypost.com//fed-creates-fake-college-to-uncover-im/

Mr. Cabrera crossed the border as a teenager in 1990 and made his way to New York. While working menial jobs, he earned an undergraduate and a graduate degree from Baruch and founded Masa, a nonprofit in the South Bronx that tutors Mexican and Mexican-American students. In 2014, he was offered a job working with his mentor, Robert C. Smith, a sociology professor at Baruch. In that role, Mr. Cabrera would help immigrants apply for a deportation-deferral program for childhood a...rrivals. But first, he needed to fix his own immigration status. That is when he returned to his parents’ home in San Antonio Texcala, Mexico. Because he lived illegally for more than a year in the United States, he faced a 10-year ban on re-entry unless he qualified for a humanitarian waiver. His petition was rejected. Mr. Cabrera stewed for several months and then threw himself into what came naturally to him helping others. He worked at a university in Puebla state with students recently deported from the United States known as Los Otros Dreamers (the Other Dreamers) helping them navigate the bureaucratic challenges of transferring academic credit. He sent youth groups to New York City to do volunteer work with community organizations helping Mexican immigrants. And he created a library in his hometown. In January this year, Mr. Cabrera was granted his visa. Dr. Smith said he was pleased that the authorities had finally weighed Mr. Cabrera’s accomplishments more than the way he had entered the country as a teenager. But the relief may be temporary, illuminating just how byzantine the American immigration system can be: The process took so long that Mr. Cabrera’s work visa has less than six months left. He may have to return to Mexico on Sept. 30. http://www.nytimes.com//a-new-yorker-long-caught-in-immigr

Senate Republicans are weighing in on a looming immigration battle, arguing President Obama's executive actions should be declared unconstitutional. Forty-three GOP senators filed an amicus brief Monday saying Obama's actions are "in stark contravention to federal law" and undermine separation of powers by letting the White House write the law. There is little doubt that the Executive adopted the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (‘DAP...A’) program as part of an explicit effort to circumvent the legislative process," they add in the brief. Texas and dozens of other states are challenging the executive actions, which a federal judge put on hold last year.

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President Barack Obama scoffed that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposals to force Mexico to pay for a border wall by blocking money from Mexican immigrants to their families at home would likely cause more Mexicans to cross the southern border. He also said proposals from Trump, and his chief GOP rival Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, have damaged America’s standing with other countries. The implications with respect to ending remittances, many of which by the way are from legal immigrants, and from individuals who are sending money back from their families, are enormous, Obama said. First of all, they are impractical. The notion that we are going to track every Western Union transaction of money being sent to Mexico good luck with that.

Trump's immigration plan, released last fall, argues that employers who sponsor these H-1B visas should be required to pay workers much more money than they currently do. He argues that it would dissuade employers from hiring foreign workers, if it were even more expensive. Those views have freaked out Silicon Valley's wealthiest executives, to say the least. "Attracting entrepreneurs and human capital is critical to the tech community,"

Immigration reform might help to fulfill the increasing gap in the trucking industry, help lower the cost of truck load as well as LTL freight, and improve freight delivery time. There have been several legislative attempts to overhaul the U.S. immigration policy over the past decade, and all of them have failed. The American people rejected these efforts because they were primarily focused on addressing the demands of the people who broke our laws. In the U.S. labor force, t...here were 8.1 million unauthorized immigrants either working or looking for work in 2012 - all potential drivers already in the U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday he expects immigration to be a major issue in the 2016 election.

Did you know? The 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States collectively paid $11.64 billion in state and local taxes. ITEP’s analysis finds their combined nationwide state and local tax contributions would increase by $805 million under full implementation of the administration’s 2012 and 2014 executive actions and by $2.1 billion under comprehensive immigration reform. Regardless of the politically contentious nature of immigration reform, the data show undocumented immigrants greatly contribute to our nation's economy, not just in labor but also with tax dollars, said Meg Wiehe, ITEP's State Tax Policy Director.

At least 20,455 unaccompanied minors have been caught during fiscal year 2016 along the U.S.-Mexico border as of last month. According to committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), who warned that if this trend continues, the number of illegal minors could eclipse a massive 2014 surge that strained the resources of the Department of Homeland Security and prompted investigations into the Obama administration’s handling of the issue. Thomas Homan, a top official in the ...U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations, confirmed that trials for these illegal immigrants could take months or years to complete. It is no wonder children are being mistreated or simply falling off of the grid once turned over to sponsors, Grassley said. Your agency wants to wipe its hands clean after a child is placed with a sponsor.