All Entries Tagged With: "immigration"
Obama To Make A Grassroots Push For DREAM Act, Won’t Engage In Filibuster Reform Fight
WASHINGTON — The White House is preparing a major grassroots push to pass the DREAM Act next year, which President Obama said Wednesday was one of his top priorities after the legislation failed in the recent lame duck session. Acknowledging the next Congress will be much more resistant to the President’s agenda, the White House [...]
Henry Sosa: The reasons for my immigration and education involvement.
On October 23 2009 I received the visit that no immigrant ever wants to receive. While I was taking an early college class, I received a call from my house that 3 immigration officers had been to my house looking for me, and had left a business card for me to call them back immediately. [...]
Three immigrants with green cards in N.J. file health care discrimination lawsuit.
Full Story: NJ.com Three immigrants with green cards sued the state today, saying it is discriminating against them by removing them from state-subsidized health care due to their immigration status. The lawsuit seeks to prevent the state Department of Human Services from instituting planned budget cuts that would remove the plaintiffs — and about 12,000 [...]
Immigration agency targets N.J. businesses
BY ELIZABETH LLORENTE The Record STAFF WRITER Immigration officials in the past 10 months have warned 25 businesses in New Jersey that they may face fines if they failed to ensure that their employees are eligible to work in the U.S., said Harold Ort, the spokesman for the Newark office of U.S. Immigration and [...]
Historic Paterson.
The City of Paterson, located on the Passaic River in New Jersey was once one of the mightiest industrial cities of the United States. It has a rich history as the Nation’s first planned industrial city, as well as containing some of the country’s oldest textile mills and businesses. In 1792, Alexander Hamilton formed an [...]
