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Use of E-Verify is Mandatory as is the Potential for Businesses to Lose their Licenses Under New Immigration Regime in Arizona

By Montserrat Miller

Effective January 1, 2008, all Arizona employers must participate in the federal government’s electronic employment verification program known as E-Verify, which was formerly known as Basic Pilot.  While this program is voluntary nationally, a federal judge last week upheld an Arizona law which requires its mandatory use and which also provides for monetary penalties and worse, loss of state issued business licenses.

Federal Government Fails in Attempt to Bend Regulatory Flexibility Act

By Montserrat Miller

On October 10, 2007, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge Charles R. Breyer, issued an order granting the plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction preventing implementation of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’ or the “Agency”) rule on the Social Security Administration (SSA) No-Match letters, in a suit brought by a cross-section of civil rights, union and business interests.

Shaking the Pillars: An Asylum Applicant Shakes Loose Some Unusual Relief

By Jonathan Robert Nelson

The name of Xiaodong Li, a Chinese refugee, may not sound like Samson, but his struggle for asylum shook the American religious establishment in late 2005. In the process, Li’s case exposed fault lines in the administration’s immigration policies and littered the legal ground with broken precedents and vacated decisions. Whether Li will be able to move the Board of Immigration Appeals to grant him asylum remains to be seen.

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