Posts tagged DHS

Stop the Deportation of Herta Llusho!

Herta Llusho, a 19 year old college freshman and a National Honors Society high school graduate, will be deported on August 19th, unless Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano intervenes. Please do the following to help us stop her deportation: 1. Join the facebook group for immediate... [+]

Stop the Deportation of Convicted Felons!

The immigration rights movement, forced into a defensive posture, is down on its knees begging for crumbs. Pleading to keep only the “good” immigrants in the country, those who will labor with their heads down, without asking for rights. DREAMers are in the business of... [+]

Musings

Musings

The last few weeks were thoroughly exhausting. Between the long week in D.C., the non-gay drama (highly boring) of my father and some promigrant bloggers, a horrible court decision against us, the exhausting but exhilarating National DREAM graduation and efforts to save Walter Lara, I... [+]

Revisiting CSPA and ‘Aging Out’

This August, it would be 7 years since President Bush signed the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) into law. What is CSPA? It allows a child who has turned 21 and ‘aged out’ under an immigration petition to automatically be put in another category and... [+]

Apply for a Job with Homeland Security!

Homeland security is hiring for an Associate General Counsel for Immigration! And it is a job that would guarantee ‘job security.” After all, DHS has an overbloated budget that needs justification, hence the detaining of non-violent, non-criminal immigrants like gardeners, nurses, construction workers and students. And... [+]

ICE Detaining Ukrainian Woman...

ICE Detaining Ukrainian Woman Willing and Paying to Leave the United States

This one should outrage every American taxpayer. She served jail time for a conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. She had a detainer placed on her by ICE, so after she was done serving this time, ICE came to the jail and took her to Fairfax, VA... [+]

Forget Janet Napolitano; Dismantle DHS

The appointment of Janet Napolitano to the top Homeland Security post has elicited a diverse number of reactions. In a New York Times article, some immigration hardliners are calling it a travesty, NumbersUSA thinks that President-elect Barack Obama could have done worse, while ‘liberals’ think... [+]

More Border Woes – DHS runs out of $$; Head replaced

Trouble seems to follow the border fence everywhere–they may be hedged together. After waiving environmental protections, trying to build the wall through a school campus, and causing flooding trouble, we hear from the DHS that the proposed border wall is over-budget and that the official... [+]