Archive for the ‘Napolitano’ Category
Monday, January 25th, 2010
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have announced on January 21, that the Secretary of Homeland Security had designated Haiti for temporary protected status (TPS) for a period of 18 months. Under this designation, qualified Haitian nationals (and aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Haiti) may ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
According to the statement issued by Matt Chandler, Deputy Press Secretary, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton have temporarily halted all removal of Haiti in the wake of earthquake there. ICE continues to closely monitoring the situation.
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Finally, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) puts an end to a defective federal law that made deceased U.S. citizens’ alien widows ‘ lives miserable. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) interpreted the previous law as, if a citizen spouse dies before the USCIS acts on his/her petition ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano, along with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Alejandro Mayorkas had announced the “I E-Verify” campaign to recognize the approximately 170,000 businesses nationwide that seek to maintain legal workforces by ...
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton announced a detention reform initiative Tuesday that targets seven major components. These reforms will include centralizing ICE’s system of contracts, advancing the effective use of Alternatives to Detention (”ATDs”), placing different detained populations in more appropriate settings, developing a medical ...
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter unveiled a terrorism-prevention video, “Recognizing 8 Signs of Terrorism” on Monday. The announcement came during Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Napolitano’s trip to Denver, where she joined Governor Ritter on a tour of the Center for Empowered Living & Learning (CELL)-a non-profit institution dedicated to ...
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) started the third and final national dialogue last week for the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR). This dialogue is the culmination of an extensive stakeholder outreach effort that began in June with Secretary Napolitano’s outreach to homeland security stakeholder associations and two previous national ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Thursday that the department has new authority to hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity professionals over the next three years. In an announcement made at the kick-off of the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Napolitano said, the new recruits will help fulfill the department’ broad ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
To create jobs in local community while enhancing efforts against terrorism, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano has announced approximately $355 million in funding for more than a dozen airport security projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Secretary Napolitano informed that “These state-of-the-art technologies ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Changing the tactics and using payroll audits rather than the guns and dogs as in the Bush era, an immigration crackdown by the Obama administration has led to the firing of about 1,800 workers at American Apparel in Los Angeles, according to an editorial written in the New York Times. ...
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