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Cuba and the US to resume talks regarding immigration at the UN

“Today, US and Cuban representatives will meet in New York to discuss implementation of the US-Cuba Migration Accords,” the State Department said in a statement…The move to thaw relations follows President Barack Obama’s decision in April to authorize travel and money transfers to the island by US nationals of Cuban descent.

ACLU wants details on federal immigration changes

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a public records request asking the Obama administration to make public changes it is making to a federal immigration enforcement program that allows local police to arrest and process illegal immigrants.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently announced the plans that would require new agreements for local police, which could impact the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, which has had a processing agreement in place with the federal government since 2007

ICE will prioritize inmates according to crime

Ex-Judge Accused of Filing False Immigration Forms, Bilking Clients

Former Manhattan Civil Court Judge Salvador Collazo was arrested early Tuesday morning by federal authorities for a conspiracy to commit visa fraud and overcharge clients.

Collazo, a Bronx-based immigration practitioner who was removed from the bench in 1998 for passing a lewd note about a female law intern and then lying about it to a judicial screening committee, was arrested shortly after 6 a.m. He is accused of filing false statements with immigration authorities and bilking aliens with excessive fees.

Former Manhattan Civil Court Judge Salvador Collazo was arrested early Tuesday morning by federal authorities for a conspiracy to commit visa fraud and overcharge clients.

Dems Take Backward Steps on Immigration

The use of no-match letters is one of a series of moves to sweep more federal polices into an umbrella of immigration enforcement. The Senate did not stop there. More harsh and flawed enforcement-only measures were included – with cooperative Democrats in some cases — in an appropriations bill for DHS.

Outrageously, the Democratic administration also rolled backwards on yet another bad policy. Yesterday, DHS announced that it would extend the 287G program, which deputizes local law enforcement as immigration agents. This, despite extensive research showing how this roundup and deportation program has run roughshod over civil and human rights and undermines public safety.

Schumer: Immigration bill to be ready by Labor Day

In an interview with The Associated Press, Sen. Chuck Schumer said an immigration bill can be done by the end of the year or early next year that works out disagreements between labor and business interests on the flow of legal foreign workers.

I say, as long as the border are open to rich, gringo corporations through free trade agreement, the border should be open to the people. Democracies are supposed to be for the people, not for the rich.

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