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Saman Movassaghi Gonzalez, Managing Attorney at the U.S. Immigration Law Counsel®, with over 13 years of experience in immigration law has acquired the necessary skills to successfully navigate through the complex U.S. immigration laws we are currently facing. My team caters to both corporate and individual clients with an emphasis on 601A Provisional Hardship Waiver […]
‘Invisible’ Crime: Immigrant Scams Are Big Business In South Florida, But Few Crooks Caught
Infamous as the setting for many cases of high-profile financial fraud and chicanery, South Florida is also home to a relatively unknown scam that targets the region’s large immigrant population, bilking many of them for thousands of dollars for “expert” immigration services that are never delivered, a Florida Bulldog investigation has found. The victims […]
Memo to Keys police: Undocumented immigrants are human beings too.
The Honduran immigrant was riding his bicycle to work in Key West when he was struck by a local woman driving a pickup truck. Marcos Antonio Huete, 31, was lying on the sidewalk, injured, when a Monroe County Sheriff’s sergeant arrived on that sunny April 27, when zealotry would change forever the lives of Huete […]
Immigrants Without Criminal Records Arrested By ICE Triples In New England
Immigrants Without Criminal Records Arrested By ICE Triples In New England ICE arrests of non-criminal immigrants living in New England without authorization have more than tripled so far this year. Even before then-President-elect Trump took office, his message on immigration was clear — he planned to deport millions of immigrants living in the country without […]
Here’s where immigrants are moving to in America
The US Census Bureau recently released estimates of how the population changed in each of America’s 3,142 counties and county-equivalents between July 1, 2015 and July 1, 2016. Among those estimates are the major components of population change, including net international migration, or the number of people who moved to a county from another country, minus […]
Threats Explode in Texas Capitol Over Illegal Immigration share this email
The final day of a Texas state legislative session turned ugly when rowdy protesters showed up to speak out against the new state law banning sanctuary cities. Republican State Rep. Matt Rinaldi called Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the protesters, some of whom carried signs saying they were illegal immigrants. Democratic Rep. Poncho Nevárez and […]
Trump extends legal protection for nearly 59,000 Haitians in U.S.
President Donald Trump is again backing away from his hard-line anti-immigration rhetoric from the campaign trail, this time by extending the legal status of nearly 59,000 Haitians already in the U.S.. Haitian activists, the Haitian government, immigrant advocates and a bipartisan group of lawmakers pressed the White House to maintain the special status for Haitians […]
3 Things You Need to Know About President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration
The President has announced a series of executive actions directly affecting our current immigration laws. These changes affect millions of individuals residing in the United States. Here are 3 Things you should know: It Protects Immigrant Parents From Deportation and Grants Work Permit. One of the biggest changes that will be made by the president’s […]