My friend Morgan Smith wrote this note about the Rio Grande in July 2024. Learn more about Morgan here , here and here .
J.A.M. v. USA "The Court holds that Oscar is entitled to a much lower, but still notable award of $175,000 because he was somewhat older at the time of the incident, was detained for about half...
Path2Papers, July 17, 2024 " What are the policy changes the Biden administration is implementing regarding temporary work visas? On June 18, 2024, the Biden administration announced a policy...
DOJ, July 18, 2024 "The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key Programs Inc. (Southwest Key), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides housing to unaccompanied children who are...
Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters, July 18, 2024 "Even with all the industries where Californians went on strike during last year’s “hot labor summer,” some of the most active sites of...
"If you have been following their press releases, complaints, and settlement agreements over the past several months, the Department of Justice’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) has announced a number of settlements under the general heading of “document abuse” or “citizenship discrimination.”These settlements, touted along with the amounts of fines OSC has collected span multiple industries from janitorial (Commercial Cleaning Systems, Master Klean Janitorial) to food service (El Rancho Corp., SK Food Group) to construction (Potter Concrete). The settlements and their accompanying press releases are virtually identical, right down to the pro forma quotes from OSC officials. As the OSC website shows, settlements of these immigration-related unfair employment practices are nothing new, but the settlement agreements also share one other common thread: all of the settling parties participated in E-Verify and OSC initiated its investigations in almost all of these cases when a branch of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) referred the matters to OSC." - Douglas A. Hass, July 15, 2014.