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IMMIGRANT'S WEEKLY FROM ILW.COM

July 02, 2007

Headlines:
1. Comment: Senate Kills Immigration Bill
2. Classifieds:
None this week
3. Items:
(a) DHS Immigration Attorneys: Workload Analysis and Workforce
Planning Efforts Lack Data and Documentation by Government
Accountability Office
(b) News Links For The Week
4. Highlight: American Immigration Attorneys And Other Featured
Law Firms
5. Chat with Alice Yardum-Hunter, Esq.
6. Letters From:
(a) Marie-Lyne
(b) Celia
(c) Darlene
7. Discussions
(a) Immigration Law Wiki
(b) Illegal Mexican Exploitation
(c) annulment vs. divorce
(d) Can the INS deport a spouse during or after a divorce?
(e) S.O.S. my american husband makes my life a living ...
(f) Temporary to Permanent Residency?
(g) Who wrote this.
(h) overstay and marriage question
(i) Background Checks
(j) mariage for a secondtime
(k) "Amnesty" for illegals, What about us, the legal ...

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1. COMMENT

Senate Kills Immigration Bill

The Senate has voted to kill the comprehensive immigration
reform bill--it looks like the nation will have to look to the
next congress and the next president for a solution to its broken
immigration system.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/wa...cnd-immig.html

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3. Items

(a) DHS Immigration Attorneys: Workload Analysis and Workforce
Planning Efforts Lack Data and Documentation

Government Accountability Office says "Our prior work on
strategic workforce planning states that staffing decisions,
including needs assessments and deployment decisions, should be
based on valid and reliable data; however, ICE and USCIS's legal
offices do not currently have such data available, though efforts
are under way to address this challenge."
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2007,0702-gao.pdf
http://www.gao.gov

(b) News Links For The Week

These immigration news items are updated throughout the week.
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5. CHAT

-- Attorney Alice Yardum-Hunter, Esq. Tue, Jul 10, 5PM ET
http://yardum-hunter.com/Main/

-- To Be Announced Tue, Jul 17, 5PM ET

-- To Be Announced Tue, Jul 24, 5PM ET

-- To Be Announced Tue, Jul 31, 5PM ET

-- Attorney Alice Yardum-Hunter, Esq. Tue, Aug 7, 5PM ET
http://yardum-hunter.com/Main/

-- To Be Announced Tue, Aug 14, 5PM ET

-- Jennifer Oltarsh, Esq. Tue, Aug 21, 5PM ET
http://www.oltarsh.com

-- To Be Announced Tue, Aug 28, 5PM ET
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6. LETTERS

(a) Dear Weekly Editor:
I get so angry to listen to Lou Dobbs (who's obviously against a
positive outcome of the "Comprehensive Immigration Bill") and
people like Dolores. I came here through the regular channels
legally. I graduated and when I obtained my degree, I asked the
INS what's next and they say the only way for you is to find an
employer who would sponsor you. I had my EAD and had an employer
who agreed to sponsor me and changed their mind about 3 month to
the end of my EAD. Now I know better and I think that I could
have extended my EAD (which the INS "again" told me that I could
not renew) and/or should have hired a lawyer for a better outcome
and could/should have returned home but I had just bought a house
since things seems to be taking place so nicely for me. No
hospital would hire me (I am an RN) since during that time there
weren't a shortage in Nursing, so I tried my best to continue
living... I have been trying to sell my house since 2003 to try
to go home and maybe come back and the Real Estate market being
what it is... and after two lousy Real Estate agents I am still
in the "down" house. I have been paying my taxes the whole time I
have been here and as a whole I have been a good "citizen"... Not
everyone comes here illegally and I understand feeling unfairness
in Dolores' letter (IW 6/25/07) since she wasn't able to have her
sister come to support when going through such hardship as Cancer
but even if this bill being discussed passes, it isn't Amnesty ;
1986 was Amnesty. With the fee that all will have to pay, the
requirement of learning how to speak English and more
requirements that are going to be needed to comply it isn't going
to be Amnesty (By the way by reading Dolores' letter that's
something she doesn't and won't have to go through since after 22
years (?) her written English isn't up-to-part and probably not
her **** either: sorry!) It is a different hard way to make the
American dream come true for many. It isn't going to be easy for
many to adjust their status even if the bill goes through. I am
not Mexican but I know that the job that they do, many American
do not want to do it and they rather stand at Junction of highway
to beg for money instead of getting paid minimum wages and
sometimes lower. The Hispanic community works hard for very
little money and if the law passes they will work as hard to
better their family here and abroad. Maybe finally they will have
decent health insurance and be able to have preventive medecine
instead of emergency (which by then is unaffordable even for
American citizen) and pay taxes which is something some of then
don't pay not because they don't want to but afraid that they
will be found. Dolores isn't the first immigrant that I hear
speak about things that they do not have any knowledge about
because they came through a different channel and do not know
what hardship people like the Mexicans or I go through all the
time. Please stop watching Lou Dobbs and open your mind by
reading other well informed sources (i.e. Siskind... or others
who publish in their newletter) I am tired of the b.s. from
narrominded or uninformed people.

Marie-Lyne

(b) Dear Weekly Editor:
If I may say may piece on the immigration reform that making a
lot of politicians emotional and irrational. There would be
illegal immigration if our immigration policies are realistic and
rational. This country became what it is now because of
immigrants. Whether we like or not, face it or not, if all these
illegal immigrants are deported en masse today, it will be like
taking out all the fleas in a dirty dog's body. It will bleed to
death. Can you immagine how much money it's gonna cost just to
round them up, put them to jail and deport them. Remember, the
illegal immigrants here are not just those that crossed the
border. There illegals here who came here legally but for some
technicalities or maybe they ran out of time they are now
undocumented. How are we gonna deport them? Make them pay for
their plane ride which I doubt they have because they are
probably living here below poverty level as they could not work
legally. Also, I know a lot of immigrants who are skilled,
professionals, paying their taxes honestly, is not getting any
government benefits, good upright citizens but because their
employers/sponsors made a mistake or defrauded them, or their
lawyers didn't do their job well and so are now undocumented.
They could be a great asset to this country. Their skills and
knowledge can be use to make us economically stronger. I say,
give them a chance. Give them the chance to work here legally at
least if not stay here permanently. Pass and immigrantion reform
bill that will weed out those that are draining our social
security system and the felons and terrorists.

Celia

(c) Dear Weekly Editor:
I wanted to share my opinion about the Immigration bill. I am a
US citizen, born in the USA. Caucasian. I feel that the country
and our government are getting too politically correct and afraid
to stand up to what is right. The immigrants are walking all over
us, and dictating our country to do what they want. If they went
to any other country, they wouldn't have this much rights. They
would not get legalized just for being there. Every other country
has a process to go through to get legalized, and you don't hear
about how messed up their system is, and how they are getting
taken over by immigrants. They shouldn't just legalize the
immigrants just for being here. They should make them go back to
their country and file for legalization from there. Legalizing
isn't going to make things better. It's just going to make it
worst. Because you are going to have a swarm of people trying to
get over our borders, just to say they were here when the law
came in affect. They should just only give those people visa's
to work for a year, to prove that they are here to help the
economy and not to mooch off our welfare system. Then they should
make it easier to bring over family members as long as those
family members are either sponsored by someone proven to support
them, or gets a visa to work. Then they also should be REQUIRED
to learn English and live by our ways, in the public life. Not
make us bend to their ways. No other country would let that
happen. Do you see Romanians invading Germany and telling them
they must have Romanian language in the schools because they
don't know German and don't want to learn? Do you see Bulgarians
invading France and telling them they must put their language on
signs so they know where they are going, because they don't want
to learn French? Do you see the Chinese invading Britain, and
demanding them to learn their language, because they don't know
English? No. It's ridiculous how much we put up with and bend for
them!

Darlene
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7. Discussions

(a) Immigration Law Wiki
http://www.immigrationlawwiki.com

(b) Illegal Mexican Exploitation
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/2...10061141#13810061141

(c) annulment vs. divorce
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/4...10641141#16810641141

(d) Can the INS deport a spouse during or after a divorce?
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/4...10641141#16810641141

(e) S.O.S. my american husband makes my life a living ...
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/2...10151141#51510151141

(f) Temporary to Permanent Residency?
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/9...10461141#96810461141

(g) Who wrote this.
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/2...10551141#47710551141

(h) overstay and marriage question
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/8...10061141#55610061141

(i) Background Checks
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/5...10751141#15810751141

(j) mariage for a secondtime
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/9...10841141#47710841141

(k) "Amnesty" for illegals, What about us, the legal ...
http://discuss.ilw.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/902603441/m/9...10561141#83210561141
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