Cuban Americans who have desired to travel to Cuba were restricted except for visits to spouses, children or parents and these visits were restricted to only once in 3 years and only for 14 days.  Only $50 per day was permitted to be spent.  Humanitarian visas were never authorized. On March 11, 2009 President Obama [...]

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In Colorado, state officials and the Sheriff have used confidential tax documents to arrest people for illegally using social security numbers that did not belong to them.  This is commonly done by undocumented aliens to enable them to work without them realizing they were appropriating a particular person’s social security number. The American Civil Liberties [...]

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As many as 30,000 desperate illegal Haitians who are in the U.S. have been ordered deported by Immigration.  This draconian program would separate them from their U.S. spouses and U.S. children.  Immigration has not extended temporary protected status (TPS) to Haitians although it has done so for Salvadorians and Hondurans.  TPS is granted to those [...]

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New York Assembly has recently passed legislation to restore judge’s discretion in cases that involve mere possession.  This would eliminate hearings to have the prosecutor’s consent to allow judges to send persons to drug treatment programs instead of prison.  The bill is now before the State Senate which is likely to approve it as well [...]

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The Supreme Court of the U.S. heard arguments Wednesday February 25, 2009 about the degree of blame of an illegal immigrant who gave an employer a false social security card. The immigrant did not know the social security number belonged to a specific person.  Immigrants who number in the millions do this to be able [...]

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