One Florida university is making efforts to address the needs of a large demographic of its students by allowing those that came to the country without documentation as children to attend school at the resident rate. While being granted deferred status does not...
Miami Immigration & Naturalization Law Blog
Major combatant of illegal immigration halted
While people living in Miami, Florida, and cities across the country have opinions and ideas about politics, news and other national issues, those in law enforcement and other high-profile positions often have the resources and platform necessary to be heard and make...
Immigration and social services: fact v. fiction
When young and new workers begin paying into benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security, they often do so under the assumption that at retirement age they will ultimately collect the same amount they contributed over the years. And while this concept...
Keeping the dream of immigration reform alive
As people living in Miami, Florida, and all around the country, eagerly await progress relating to policy reform, many are finding comfort in some of the provisions outlined in proposed legislation. For those that have advocated for such change to U.S. immigration law...
Families split by immigration status
For many families there is hope that new federal policies will directly benefit them and their loved ones. Though, that hope has not stopped thousands of unauthorized immigrants from being targeted and deported even as state and federal legislatures continue to debate...
Path to citizenship makes sense to most Floridians
As legislatures around the country argue every point and potential pitfall of topics like immigration reform, it’s important to bring such issues back down to the grassroots level to gain an accurate understanding of what the people want. After all, the state...
Evidence employment immigration pays off
Like so many things, discussions concerning issues like immigration can be impassioned. Millions of people living in the state of Florida and across the country have deeply rooted personal beliefs about immigration, and identify with various political views on the...
ICE accused of abusing US immigration law
Immigration reform is being considered on the state and federal level as citizens and legislatures grapple to settle upon policies that may affect millions of people in this country. In Florida, the topic of immigration law is an especially sensitive one for many...
Immigration reform plan includes path to U.S. citizenship
In Miami, as well as in other cities and communities, there are many families anxiously waiting for U.S. immigration law changes that will allow members who are here without papers to become citizens. In immigration rallies and marches taking place across the nation,...
Immigrants demand path to citizenship in Miami rally
As U.S. lawmakers appear to be closer to presenting legislation addressing the broken system that currently exists for immigrants, many are hoping that it will provide a path to citizenship. For many immigrants who live within the U.S. without any legal documentation,...

