Immigration Newsletter – September 2012
Last few weeks, we saw the Republican and Democratic parties outline their political platforms for the presidential election at the party’s perspective convention. The immigration platforms for both of these parties are vastly different. The Republican’s immigration platform emphasizes the importance of legal immigration, work site enforcement, and outright rejected the notion of amnesty and illegal immigration. The Democratic Party’s immigration platform emphasizes the needs for comprehensive immigration reform and the passage of the DREAM Act for the young men and women who are now eligible for deferred action. While these are only platform, the differences in the stand of immigration clearly show the growing gap of the public perception toward immigration, whether legal or unlawful. Immigration has now and more ever become a polarized political issue that we can expect neither party could be able to compromise to pass any legislation, i.e., the failure to pass the DREAM Act. For the forgoing reason, we do not foresee any future passage of immigration legislation pertaining to the benefit side of the immigration law for a few more years. Rather, we will see more of the changes in the policy of the administration toward the enforcement or adjudication of the immigration law, i.e., deferred action and in-state I-601 waiver processing. As outline below, we want to provide you with all of the updates toward these changes in the policy or court ruling.