tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31117251105205081732024-03-08T05:52:27.729-08:00@ApesqImmigration & Family Law Attorney, Advocate, AILA National Secretary, Immigrant, Blogger, Runner, and Wine Enthusiast.Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-81231558864575804822013-11-26T16:39:00.001-08:002013-11-27T09:02:56.816-08:00Healing begins with giving thanks
As President Obama spoke again about immigration and the
badly needed reform in San Francisco earlier this week, he was interrupted by a
young DREAMer frustrated with the record high deportations under this administration. Obama stopped and addressed the protester’s concerns
reminding everyone that we are all trying to fix our broken immigration
process, we all want America to return to Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-22525522297606558282013-03-21T13:14:00.000-07:002013-03-21T13:14:17.428-07:00America is a Nation of Values - and Family is part of those valuesThe Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) conducted one of the largest surveys ever fielded on immigration policy, immigrants, and religious and cultural changes in the U.S.
The survey of nearly 4,500 American adults explores the many divisions—political, religious, ethnic, geographical, and generational—within the nation over core values and their relationship to immigration.
Some of theAnnaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-5254501716607743662013-03-11T18:00:00.000-07:002013-03-12T08:07:23.132-07:00Guess Who’s Coming to DinnerRonald Reagan once said that “All great change in America begins at the dinner table”.
He was right.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn. The film considered the then controversial subject of interracial marriage, which had been illegal in most states, and was still illegal in 17 states, until June 12, 1967, Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-68769233051949560852013-02-18T07:18:00.001-08:002013-03-12T08:04:20.957-07:00Our Lady Liberty Still Stands As A Beacon Of FreedomTo every immigrant, nothing rings more true than the words of the Emma
Lazarus Poem engraved on the Statute of Liberty
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe
free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless,
tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
And nothing exemplifies the meaning of such words more than the Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-28831930207618284382012-10-24T15:59:00.000-07:002013-03-12T08:06:51.861-07:00Immigrant Women: Forgotten and DiscountedWhile there was plenty of talk during the presidential debates
about the equality of women, one group remained unmentioned and invisible:
immigrant women who suffer in silence at the hands of their abusers.
During the second presidential debate, candidates were asked
about how each of them intended to rectify gender inequality in the
workplace. President Obama explained
that he signed theAnnaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-51876069130450114072012-08-03T15:48:00.001-07:002012-08-03T15:48:20.560-07:00DHS OUTLINES DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS PROCESSUSCIS will begin accepting requests for consideration of deferred action on August 15, 2012
WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security today provided additional information on the deferred action for childhood arrivals process during a national media call in preparation for the August 15 implementation date.
On June 15, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced that certain Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-73575923657012638432012-07-18T15:43:00.000-07:002012-07-18T15:43:14.395-07:00Why saying “I do” still receives unequal treatment under Federal Immigration LawsLast month, as I read Justice Scalia’s scathing dissent in
Arizona v United States, I wondered what he’ll be thinking when he hears oral
argument in the challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The
premise of Scalia’s dissent was that states have the right to control their
borders. It seems logical then that Scalia, and those who claim to
cherish state sovereignty, would Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-63044900831125911602012-06-18T13:21:00.001-07:002012-06-18T18:16:48.997-07:00The Administration takes a bold step forward in providing limited relief to well deserving young immigrants!ALERT: DREAMers NOT currently in proceedings should not
apply affirmatively for Deferred Action at this time. Individuals who are about
to be removed and who believe they can demonstrate that they satisfy the
eligibility criteria should immediately contact either the Law Enforcement
Support Center’s hotline at 1-855-448-6903 (staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week) or the ICE Office of the Public Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-47007830191948188092012-05-23T14:21:00.000-07:002012-05-24T08:36:54.678-07:00Shame on the House for passing H.R. 4970!The action of the House of Representative in passing H.R.
4970, a bill that undermines the core principles of the Violence Against Women
Act (VAWA), is an assault on victims of domestic violence. H.R. 4970 rolls back existing law and removes
long-standing protections for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault
-- crimes that predominately affect women.
Supporters of the bill, led byAnnaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-49109145746849096022012-04-02T09:42:00.000-07:002012-04-02T09:42:48.662-07:00It is sad and disturbing how mean-spirited anti-immigrant individuals can twist language to portray that which is not actually true. The Administration’s announcement of a “procedural change” in the manner in which waivers for applicants for legal permanent residents has been twisted and misconstrued as a “backdoor amnesty” as “making it easier for illegal immigrants to apply for legal Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-38196797348509456882011-07-05T15:11:00.000-07:002011-07-05T15:11:46.190-07:00The Blog @ Homeland Security: Celebrating America's 235th Birthday by Welcoming More Than 24,000 New Citizenshttp://blog.dhs.gov/2011/07/celebrating-americas-235th-birthday-by.htmlAnnaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-75890017868524276012010-08-05T13:15:00.000-07:002010-08-05T13:19:37.813-07:00The 14th Amendment and Jus SoliIn naturalization, jus soli, which is Latin for “right of ground or soil”, is also known as birthright citizenship; that is the right by which nationality or citizenship can be recognized to any individual born in the territory of the country applying such doctrine.At the turn of the nineteenth century, countries divided themselves between those granting nationality on the grounds of jus soli andAnnaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-7716555575762192152010-07-21T16:13:00.000-07:002010-07-21T16:19:23.442-07:00Women as a particular social group seeking asylumThe Ninth circuit Court of Appeals recent July 12, 2010 decision in Perdomo v. Holder No. 06-71652 sent shock waves throughout the immigration practice. Practitioners and opponents of the decision immediately signed to provide commentaries, discussions, and analysis on the impact the Court’s decision would have on asylum law.To have a better understanding of how the decision impacts current Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-27186166292862869662010-07-06T11:07:00.000-07:002010-07-06T11:12:25.889-07:00Federal Lawsuit to stop Arizona Law EnforcementStates cannot act on issues dealing with Federal Laws. This Country was founded on Federalism and States can only exercise their State powers on issues concerning State Laws and not Federal Laws.http://www.upi.com/Daily-Briefing/2010/07/06/Immigration-suit/UPI-78671278420126/Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-14663485201935582282009-09-01T13:33:00.000-07:002009-09-01T13:40:51.934-07:00Legalization - it is a viable immigration option!The Immigration Policy Center has just released a paper where a cost-benefit analysis to three of the immigration debate options is presented. A "deportation only" option turns out the most expensive, "attrition through enforcement" where immigrants' lives in the United States is made difficult by limiting their options, is also very expense and not likely to be very effective, so why not Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-44682571649872724692009-08-14T13:25:00.000-07:002009-08-14T13:28:10.418-07:00Legalizing Immigrants has its benefits!Leading economists agree any immigration reform bill should include some form of legalization for the roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. Legalization would improve wages and working conditions for all workers—including the native-born—and would yield a net benefit to the recovering U.S. economy. One study estimates that an immigration reform bill Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-55355085857198400592009-08-13T09:38:00.000-07:002009-08-13T09:41:45.505-07:00Napolitano focuses on enforcement, not reform!A day after President Obama announced that legislation to overhaul immigration laws would have to wait until next year, the secretary of homeland security played down the need for change and took a tough stance on enforcing current immigration laws.The secretary, Janet Napolitano, defended the administration's assertive strategy against illegal immigrants and companies that employ them, relying Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-34438450545347714652009-08-13T09:22:00.000-07:002009-08-13T09:31:43.031-07:00MYTH: Immigrants taking away jobs from US workersCNN is airing an incendiary ad by the an anti-immigrant front group, Coalition For The Future Of The American Worker, which warns that the US government is letting in 1.5 million foreign workers a year to take jobs from the 15 million unemployed Americans. A previous version of the ad aired earlier this year.Watch it at this link: http://www.americanworker.org/How does the Coalition arrive at Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-53919518773586777622009-08-11T17:04:00.000-07:002009-08-11T17:06:40.954-07:00It's time to fix the broken immigration system!Tell Congress: "It's time to fix the broken immigration system. Pass comprehensive immigration reform this year!"Our broken immigration system is hurting our economy, American families, and all American workers. Comprehensive immigration reform is the solution. President Obama supports reform. But only Congress has the power to pass legislation.Join the campaign for Reform Immigration for AmericaAnnaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-69387607571104577982009-06-23T20:28:00.000-07:002009-06-23T20:31:40.793-07:00Tell Congress to move on Comprehensive Immigration ReformNational polling data shows that a majority of Americans want Comprehensive Immigration Reform. By consistently strong majorities, Americans want a fair, common sense plan to fix our broken immigration system. In 2009 as in previous years, voters want the President and Congress to advance an immigration plan that legalizes the undocumented workforce and requires them to pay taxes; levels the Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-87570967891025894072009-06-23T10:54:00.000-07:002009-06-23T10:56:07.248-07:00Stop ICE abuseIn a published UFCW report, you’ll read about the human toll exacted by the Bush administration’s enforcement-only policy. It includes the story of a young man, born in the United States and educated in Mexico, whose halting English subjected him first to searing ridicule, then intimidation, and, finally, threats of imprisonment. A mother separatedfrom her diabetic child. A young high school Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3111725110520508173.post-37658408684178865332009-06-23T10:24:00.000-07:002009-06-23T10:26:47.412-07:00Immigration Reform is not high on the President's priorityIf there’s one thing immigration proponents and foes can agree on it’s this: a legislative overhaul of our immigration system has been pushed down the president’s priorities list and probably won’t happen this year.http://http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=9f1fe7aa4caf6fca1cef2c9968914d39Annaluisa Padillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18286571066648340838noreply@blogger.com0