• Immigrants' Rights Update Index

Immigrants' Rights Update

Volume 19, Issue 1
February 10, 2005

Immigration Issues

• REAL ID Act of 2005 reintroduces DL provisions stripped from last year’s 9/11 Commission implementation bill

• TPS for El Salvador extended 18 mos.; reregistration period ends Mar. 8

• CIS to end "age-out" policy for V-2 and V-3 visas

• L.A. County to enter limited MOU with ICE to permit immigration enforcement at county jail

Immigration Litigation

• Supreme Court rules DHS may remove noncitizen to a country that has not consented to the removal

• Supreme Court rules INA does not authorize indefinite detention of inadmissible immigrants

• 1st Circuit invalidates regulation barring "arriving aliens" from adjusting while in removal proceedings

Employment Issues

• Congressmembers introduce sweeping proposals to curb hiring of undocumented workers

• Unions win arbitration victories related to SSA "no-match" information

• N.Y. court holds that undocumented workers can recover lost wages, but only the amount they would have earned in their home country

• Workforce Investment Act reauthorization bill reintroduced in House

• Senate confirms William J. Sanchez as OSC special counsel

• OSC announces request for proposals for outreach program

Public Benefits Issues

• Colorado legislature votes to restore Medicaid eligibility for immigrants

• Arizona allowed to implement Prop. 200's verification and reporting requirements as litigation continues