January 06, 2012
Massachusetts Court Mandates Tax Paid Health Care for Illegal Aliens
"Massachusetts lawmakers must quickly come up with about $150 million to provide health insurance to tens of thousands of legal immigrants, after the state's highest court ruled yesterday that they were illegally excluded from subsidized coverage available to other residents," the Boston Globe writes.
"The Supreme Judicial Court said a 2009 law that cut legal immigrants from the insurance program 'violates their rights to equal protection under the Massachusetts Constitution.'"
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Obama Administration Changes Rules to Benefit Illegal Aliens
"The Obama administration plans a rule change to help reduce the time illegal immigrant spouses and children are separated from citizen relatives while they try to win legal status in the United States, a senior administration official said.
Currently, illegal immigrants must leave the country before they can ask the government to waive a three- to 10-year ban on legally coming back to the U.S. The length of the ban depends on how long they have lived in the U.S. without permission," the AP reported.
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New Campaign Against Notario Fraud
"The logjam in Washington D.C. over immigration reform has led to an unintended consequence: Fraud. So called 'notarios' who sometimes also go by 'immigration consultants' are essentially non-lawyer, non-licensed legal advisers that are popular with illegal immigrants seeking some kind of legal status," Fronteras Desk writes.
"These notarios can charge several thousand dollars for work visas, green cards or citizenship applications. Sometimes it works. Most of the time, it doesn't."
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