• Immigrants' Rights Update Index

Immigrants' Rights Update

Volume 19, Issue 5
October 5, 2005

Immigration Issues

• Gang bill would expand "crime of violence" definition and otherwise negatively impact noncitizens

• Driver's license strategy meeting focuses on REAL ID–related issues

• Resolutions critical of REAL ID adopted by Santa Fe and the American Library Association, and introduced in New York City Council

• 28 states consider driver's license bills in 2005

• TPS extended for Somalia, Liberia, Burundi & Sudan

• BIA: Accumulation of continuous presence for cancellation of removal not interrupted by brief departure and unsuccessful attempt to reenter at border, absent a formal removal or voluntary departure

Immigration-related Litigation

• District court dismisses challenge to Kansas in-state tuition law

• Indiana court strikes down rule requiring state driver's license applicants to prove lawful immigration status

Employment Issues

• North Carolina work site enforcement action puts workers at risk

• 11th Circuit allows RICO lawsuit to go forward against employer for allegedly hiring undocumented workers

• Federal court in New York prohibits inquiries into FLSA case plaintiffs' immigration status

• New Hampshire Supreme Court: Undocumented workers may recover lost earnings at U.S. wage levels in limited circumstances

Public Benefits Issues

• 9th Circuit dismisses challenge to Arizona's Prop. 200 and vacates district court ruling denying injunction