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On the Loss of Michael Hethmon

Dan Stein — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 19:46:03 +0000

Mike Hethmon was a long-time attorney with the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), an affiliate of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). News that he was killed this weekend in a car wreck, at the hands of an alleged criminally negligent driver, hit us all like a ton of bricks. Mike, who had been [...]

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Legal Victory in Oregon Makes Ballot Referendum Regarding Illegal Employment Clearer to Voters

FAIR Staff — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:06:41 +0000

Stopping illegal immigrants from using fraudulent paperwork to get jobs is easy to do: the federal government established the E-Verify system to ensure that only people with legal documentation are able to work in the United States. In addition to taking jobs from American citizens, many illegal immigrants take on their identities by committing identity [...]

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Federal Court Case Halts Obama Administration’s Policy of Allowing Illegals to Vote, For Now

FAIR Staff — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:50:32 +0000

In an attempt to create a robust voting bloc and suppress the will of several states, the Obama administration is pushing to enfranchise non-citizens, including illegal immigrants. The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), FAIR’s public interest legal affiliate, is representing Kris Kobach, secretary of state of Kansas, who is trying to work with the ostensibly [...]

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Immigration: A Hot Topic in the Courts

FAIR Staff — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:35:25 +0000

Immigration has been a hot topic in the courts this year. IRLI, FAIR’s partner organization, has been involved in some of the top immigration cases from 2015. Texas et al. v. U.S. et al. The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the 26-state challenge of the President’s 2014 executive actions granting [...]

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Leaked DHS memo shows Obama might circumvent DAPA injunction

Immigration Reform Law Institute — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:07:11 +0000

“A newly leaked internal DHS memorandum produced for an off-the-record agency conclave reveals that the Obama administration is actively planning to circumvent a federal court injunction that suspended part of last November’s deferral-based amnesty initiative. The document, apparently prepared as follow-up from a DHS “Regulations Retreat” last summer, appears sure to re-ignite concerns in Congress as [...]

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Federal Court Rules in Favor of American Workers

Immigration Reform Law Institute — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 21:18:00 +0000

“Today (August 12th), the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of an American tech workers union that brought a lawsuit challenging a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulation that permits non-student foreign labor to compete with American workers. The court struck the rule, finding that DHS did not comply [...]

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