Note: The story below is about events in Canada; if a similar situation arises in the US, the victims are eligible for T visas. under Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Among the community of migrant farm workers in Kingsville, the van-load of Thai women stood out...

Steven Bauer may play tough guys in movies like Scarface, may have changed his name from Rocky Echevarría, married and fathered a son with Melanie Griffith, but before all of that he played in the sitcom ¿Qué Pasa, USA? The Cuban-American teenager, Joe, trapped in a...

Speaking at Georgetown to celebrate the 8th anniversary of the US Department of Homeland Security, former secretary Tom Ridge said he hopes "sometime in the future" the US government takes a serious look at immigration policy. "We're not going to send them home, so...

The French have banned burqas in defiance of their liberal tradition. The Swiss have banned new minarets despite their reliance on Arab bank deposits. The Japanese have shut off most immigration though they grow demographically decrepit. Perhaps the most...

An international event. How appropriate. What a show it will be. One is a former member of Croatia's Parliament. His main forte is kickboxing. He once fought before 71,000 fans in Japan. Another gentleman is a native of Iran who wrestled for his adopted nation, Great...

The US deported more illegal immigrants than ever before during the first 2 years of President Obama's administration. "In both fiscal years 2009 and 2010, Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed more illegal immigrants than ever before, with more than 779,000...

The Obama administration says its top immigration enforcement priority is deporting illegal immigrants who pose a threat to the community--namely, convicted criminals. But local law enforcement officers have employed part of the 1996 law that lets them enforce federal...

There were an estimated 11.2 million undocumented immigrants living in the US in March 2010, the Pew report finds, a number statistically unchanged from the year before. "The US economy is still doing better than the Mexican economy, and the figures suggest these...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Kumar Kibble has announced that cost at a House subcommittee hearing. The hearing focused on whether the Obama Administration is doing enough to round up people working illegally in the U.S. ICE deported almost...

to speak at a school. So I did it. It was very cool. They handed me a microphone and put me in the auditorium and I spoke for 90 minutes and answered questions about Immigration Law (I know, shocking). I am used to talking to lawyers and professionals, which is...

The stats helpers at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and the Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.  Crunchy numbers: A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 7,700 times in 2010. That's about 19 full 747s.  We...

Under US immigration law, gay Americans don't have a right to sponsor their foreign partners for green cards. Instead, these couples must separate or leave the country, forced into exile because their families are not recognized under federal law. In San Jose, Judy...

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Listed in both Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers, Harlan York is Former Immigration Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association. For fifteen years, Mr. York has practiced exclusively in the area of immigration law. Mr. York notes among his most memorable...

In 2007, 50 % of Latinos surveyed told the Pew Hispanic Center that the growing number of illegal immigrants was a positive force for the existing Latino population. In a Pew survey released Thursday, that number had plummeted to 29% of Latinos.   31% said illegal...

Henry Velandia is married to a U.S. citizen, but he might be deported anyway.  That's because the Venezuelan-born salsa teacher's legal same-sex marriage in Connecticut isn't recognized by the federal government. So his husband -- Josh Vandiver, a Princeton University...