By: Al Chardy Quizás un cuarto de millón de inmigrantes indocumentados que viven en la Florida podrían beneficiarse de la medida migratoria que anunció el presidente Barack Obama la semana pasada. Esto representa entre el 20 y 30 por ciento del número de indocumentados en el estado, que se estima entre 730,000 y casi 1 millón, según dijeron expertos de …
FRAUD WARNING: ATTORNEYS WARN ABOUT NOTARIOS OFFERING CHEAP IMMIGRATION HELP – DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW
By: John Pacenti Attorneys on the ground dealing with President Barack Obama’s executive order deferring the deportation of up to 5 million undocumented immigrant say they are concerned about unscrupulous “notarios,” notary publics who prey on people seeking legal status. While some Republicans accuse the Democratic president of acting like a monarch and Obama challenges a do-nothing Congress to pass …
MANY U.S. IMMIGRANTS FEAR COMING OUT OF HIDING DESPITE OBAMA’S ACTION – REUTERS
by David Adams Norma Martinez, an undocumented mother of two girls born in New Jersey after she arrived illegally from El Salvador in 2007, worries the Obama administration’s new immigration program might provide fleeting protections that a new president could easily reverse. “I don’t want to go on living in hiding,” said Martinez, 34, adding that she would happily sign …
SOME LOOKING AT THE FINE PRINT OF IMMIGRATION OVERHAUL – CBS 4
HOMESTEAD (CBSMiami) — One day after President Barack Obama took action to change immigration rules, some are taking a look at the fine print of the new policy. Cheers, hugs, and tears greeted President Obama’s speech, outlining his executive order, changing U.S. immigration policy. Read the rest of the story and watch the news clip.
UNDOCUMENTED URGED TO WAIT AS IMMIGRATION REFORM BEGINS – NBC6
Less than 24 hours President Barack Obama announced his executive order impacting millions of undocumented immigrants, workers who help immigrants said everyone needs to wait before making any plans to take advantage of the new rules. Read the rest of the story and watch the news clip.
HAITIAN REUNIFICATION FIGHT TO CONTINUE, ACTIVISTS SAY – THE MIAMI HERALD
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES [email protected] South Florida immigration and Haitian activists vowed Tuesday to closely monitor a new U.S. immigration policy that will allow thousands of Haitians who are eligible to receive a green card in two years to wait it out in the United States with relatives. At the same time, activists said they will continue to urge the Obama administration …
EXECUTIVE ORDER COULD AFFECT UP TO 900,000 FLORIDA IMMIGRANTS – PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE
MIAMI – “What’s next?” is the question on the minds of thousands of Floridians today after President Obama’s announcement Thursday night of an executive order regarding the future of as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants. As many as 900,000 people living in Florida could be affected, according to the Urban Institute. While the order delaying deportations isn’t a permanent …
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO EXPEDITE FAMILY REUNIFICATION FOR SOME HAITIANS – THE NEW YORK TIMES
By ERIK ECKHOLM OCTOBER 17, 2014 The Obama administration said Friday that starting in 2015 it would reduce the lengthy delays facing thousands of Haitians who have already been approved to join family members in the United States and become legal permanent residents. Currently, American citizens or permanent residents living in this country may apply for a residency visa, known as a …
US COURTS OVERCROWDED WITH ‘ROCKET DOCKET’ MIGRANT KIDS – VOICES OF AMERICA
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HARROWING STORIES FROM CENTRAL AMERICAN CHILDREN NOW LIVING IN FLORIDA
BY ALFONSO CHARDY Tens of thousands of children who fled Central America expected to find refuge in the United States, but instead wound up in ice-cold detention cells with little food and no showers and were then put in deportation proceedings, according to a new report. “The journey was awful,” the document quotes Maria, one of the children, as saying …