ICE COLLUDED WITH EMPLOYER AGAINST WORKERS

NILC Statement: Workers' Rights on ICE.  Immigrant workers and civil rights advocates today revealed evidence of extensive collusion between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Signal International, LLC, to keep workers in involuntary servitude, threaten them with deportation, and retaliate against those who attempted to organize. Here is a statement from Tyler Moran, NILC policy director.  STATEMENT ››  (2/3/10)

ICE and Big Business: Too Close for Comfort. "Our justice system is based on the belief that workers who allege abuse will receive a fair and impartial investigation. The Signal workers were denied this fundamental right. The evidence of collusion between ICE and Signal shows that ICE has a flagrant disregard for the rights of immigrant workers, which casts serious doubt on the agency's ability to effectively enforce federal immigration law."  ARTICLE BY MARIELENA HINCAPIÉ IN HUFFINGTON POST ›› (2/3/10)

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
Obama Declares Commitment to Immigration & Health Care Reform.  In his State of the Union Address, President Obama once again reiterated his commitment to revamping the U.S.'s broken immigration and health care systems.  Here is a statement from Tyler Moran, policy director of the National Immigration Law Center.  STATEMENT ››  (1/28/10)

SSA FAILS TO FOLLOW E-VERIFY RULES
Even the Social Security Administration, one of the government agencies key to the E-Verify employment eligibility verification program, does not follow the program's rules, according to a recent report by the SSA inspector general.  More information is available in a blog article written by NILC policy director Tyler Moran.  READ THE BLOG ENTRY ››  (1/15/10)

TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR PEOPLE FROM HAITI
The disastrous consequences of the 7.0 earthquake that stuck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, prompted the Obama administration to make temporary protected status available to certain nationals and former residents of Haiti.  Here are documents issued by the Dept. of Homeland Security that provide information about TPS and other immigration-related benefits available to Haitians as a result of the disaster.  INFORMATION FROM DHS ››

IMMIGRANTS & HEALTH CARE REFORM
Final Health Care Bill Must Not Leave Out Immigrants! -- Congressional leaders are negotiating the final health care reform bill in private negotiations rather than a formal conference.  The current proposals continue to exclude and penalize low-income lawfully present and undocumented immigrants.  Don't let Congress and the president continue to treat immigrants unfairly in this historic health care bill!  ACTION ALERT ››  (1/13/10)

NATURALIZATION LITIGATION
Hundreds of Immigrants Will Finally Become U.S. Citizens under Lawsuit Settlement -- Immigrants who waited years for their citizenship applications to be processed will finally have the chance to naturalize and enjoy the privileges of U.S. citizenship, under a settlement approved today between USCIS, NILC, the ACLU of So. California, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson.  NEWS RELEASE ››  (11/9/09)

ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAW BY LOCAL AGENCIES

Overview of the Key ICE ACCESS Programs: 287(g), the Criminal Alien Program, and Secure Communities
ICE has grouped the major programs that merge immigration enforcement with the criminal justice system under an umbrella scheme called Agreements of Cooperation in Communities to Enhance Safety and Security (ICE ACCESS).  (Posted 11/05/09)

New Immigration Enforcement Agreements Will Make a Bad Problem Worse
Signed agreements between local law enforcement and Department of Homeland Security threaten public safety and harm immigrant communities.  NILC STATEMENT ›› (10/16/09)

HEALTH CARE REFORM
Why Excluding People from the Health Care Exchange Is Impractical and Harmful to All of Us: It’s not about the policy, but the politics. We need more people paying into the Exchange, to make reform work for everyone. Screening out immigrants will harm citizens. Health care reform cannot fix the immigration system. America’s families include immigrants; excluding them will harm everyone. (9/14/09)