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What's next for CSS and Newman/LULAC class members?
As of February 2011, nearly 80,000 persons have applied for temporary
resident status under the class-wide settlements in Catholic Social Services v. USCIS and LULAC/Newman v. USCIS.
The Center continues to monitor USCIS's compliance with the settlements on a class-wide basis and serves as a clearinghouse for appeals to the special masters on individual claims that USCIS has violated the settlements.
For information about the status of the settlements and class members' rights thereunder, click here or select
the Late Amnesty link to the left.
US Government Terminates 'No-Match' Rule
October 7, 2009. The Department of Homeland Security has abandoned its effort to use the Social Security Administration 'no match' letters for immigration enforcement, which would have caused tens of thousands of U.S. citizens and other authorized workers to lose their jobs – an unacceptable result, particularly in these tough economic times. Click here for the article.E-Verify Rule for Federal Contractors Suspended
The federal government has agreed to suspend implementation of a rule that would require federal contractors and subcontractors to use the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) E-Verify system to verify their employees’ eligibility to work in the United States. The Rule has been suspended until May 21, 2009. Read more about what the provision would mean.The Obama Policy: No More Showboat Raids
The Obama Administration’s ICE enforcement policy has shifted, in two ways. First, to focus on the employer rather than the employee. Second, to work more constructively rather than go for red-meat news headlines.Read the article.Latinos & US Economy
UCLA Professors Raul Hinojosa and Cesar Chavez urge Washington to use immigration reform as a means to get out of the current recession.Their study suggests that comprehensive reform could boost United States GDP by trillions of dollars. Click here for the article.,a href="http://www.nationalimmigrationreform.org/Judicial%20Review%20Proposals%20Peter%20Schey.pdf/file_view"><b>Judicial Review Proposals</b></a>
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