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News & ArticlesMarch/1/2013 Immigration LawImmigration Law 1. Securing our borders; 2. Strengthening accountability for businesses that break the law by undermining American workers and exploiting undocumented workers; 3. Strengthening our economic competitiveness by creating a legal immigration system that reflects our values and diverse needs; and 4. Creating accountability for those people who are living in the United States illegally. I think the President’s quote should have been “It’s about time.” Our immigration system is broken, and it’s been broken for a very long time. I’m sure my colleagues who practice in this area of the law will agree with me. So what better time for an article in this Newsletter about immigration than now? The Department of Homeland Security (including the three agencies that make it up – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection) is an enormous agency. The U.S. Department of State is pretty big too. I’ve met many people over the years who work at these agencies who are good people and who do exceptional work. It’s the system within which they work and the laws that they are charged with implementing that are very much broken. Just prior to the President’s announcement, several U.S. Senators offered some guiding principles for comprehensive immigration reform. President Obama followed suit a couple of days later. The House of Representatives has just started to hold some hearings. It will be interesting to see the politics of all this as immigration in general, and reform in particular, has seemingly been the new “third rail” of American politics. Reform is absolutely necessary, and everyone should be paying attention. Comprehensive Immigration Reform is going to affect your clients. Whether your clients are in higher education, farming, or horse racing, immigration reform is coming and will impact your clients and their employees. If you represent technology companies with highly skilled workers, your clients probably have reason to be optimistic. If you represent entrepreneurs or start-ups, there are proposals to create temporary and/or permanent visa categories that will positively affect them. Quite frankly, if electronic I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification is expanded as many suggest it may be, perhaps all of your business clients, regardless of industry, will be affected. (The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is now supporting this.) Pay attention to what’s going on, and stay tuned for updates in this space. David W. Meyers, Esq. is managing partner at Meyers and Meyers, LLP, a firm that provides legal assistance for a variety of corporate and business needs and specializes in business and employment-based immigration matters.
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