Our laws have come a long way and gone through many anti- and pro-immigration cycles since then. This chapter explores the development of immigration law in the United States to provide psychologists with an understanding of the current psycholegal environment....
Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles between Chinese immigrants, U.S. government offici...
As Peter Kvidera has pointed out Chinese immigrants were “more directly affected by legal restrictions than any other in the history of U.S. immigration.” Collectively, the laws aimed to make life in America so restrictive, so expensive, as to drive the Chinese population in America out of...
On June 25, 2012 the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court decided to uphold the central component of Arizona’s 2010 immigration statute—its so-called “‘show me your papers’ provision.”1Already the ruling seems to mark a pivotal turning point in the immigration debate that ha...
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IMMIGRATION POLICY OBJECTIVES AND BELLISSIMO LAW GROUPCanada is commonly recognized as one of the most desirable countries in the world in which to live. The flow of immigrants to Canada is, therefore, very strong. According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), annual immigration levels ...
A California judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt much of its massive downsizing of the federal workforce Associated PressMay 9, 2025 US Judge Halts Plan to Transfer Oak Flat Land for Contested Arizona Copper Mine A federal judge has temporarily halted the federal government...
“Managing a business immigration law firm without access to IMI Pro is the equivalent of running a financial trading company without Bloomberg Terminal“ Jean-François Harvey Managing Partner - Harvey Law Group “Thanks to IMI Pro, I am never that one guy in the meeting that hasn’t heard...
1924: In the wake of the numerical limits established by the 1924 law, illegal immigration to the United States increases. TheU.S. Border Patrolis established to crack down on illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican and Canadian borders into the United States. Many of these early border crossers...
As implied, this card signifies that the holder has the right to remain in the country on a permanent basis as long as they do not commit any acts that would make them removable under immigration law. Additional benefits of a green card include granting the permanent resident the right to:...