By: Karen Smith, BOILA legal intern and third-year law student at American University Photo Credit: The Republican | Michael S. Gordon Immigrants who wish to obtain visas for the first time, renew their visas, or change their immigration statuses often face difficulties in dealing with the United States immigration system. The Immigration Policy Center attributes the […]
With victories in both Iowa and New Hampshire, many political pundits are predicting that Mitt Romney will receive the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Although Immigration is likely to be a hot topic and has been highlighted by many of Romney’s GOP rivals including Texas Governor Perry, Romney has largely stayed silent on the issue. […]
The decision in Carachuri-Rosendo restores a level of measure and rationality to immigration policies that often are unnecessarily strict and unforgiving. This decision will quickly become a major presence in Immigration Courts across the country.
The birthright citizenship may be attacked as proposed by Senator Russell Pearce, the architect of SB 1070. This legislation aims at targeting “anchor babies” of those principally of Mexican descent and comes closely on the heels of SB 1070. The law is too nebulous for police to enforce and in some counties police have refused to do so. Furthermore, the law encourages alienage and nationality rather than criminality as the determining factor.
