by Leesa K. Donner | Sep 6, 2017 | Columns
Call me tough. Call me insensitive. Call me whatever you want, but enough already with these DREAMers. Enough. They whine, and they cry; they tug at our heart strings. They protest in the streets for their rights – their R-I-G-H-T-S. We’ve heard it all, and “Frankly...
by Teresa J. Read, CPA | Sep 5, 2017 | Immigration
The announcement of President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and punting it to Congress to fix within a six-month window has already set off a wave of melodrama and discord by both sides of the political spectrum. The...
by Graham J Noble | Sep 5, 2017 | Immigration
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that an Obama-era Executive Action known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, would be phased out with immediate effect. This is not an instant termination of the disputed program, but the...
by Graham J Noble | Sep 4, 2017 | Immigration
President Donald Trump is expected to announce a decision Tuesday on the future of former President Barack Obama’s DACA program. DACA is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative that shields illegal immigrants, temporarily, from deportation if they were...
by Mark Angelides | Aug 4, 2017 | Immigration
A new bill aimed at reducing legal immigration has received the backing of President Trump. Senators Tom Cotton (R-AK) and David Perdue (R-GA) unveiled their RAISE Act at the White House alongside President Trump, and strangely enough, it has yet to receive any major...