DHS Creates Obstacles for Small Businesses Seeking High-Skilled Immigrants » Immigration Impact

DHS Creates Obstacles for Small Businesses Seeking High-Skilled Immigrants » Immigration Impact
Politicians love small businesses. They also love high-skilled workers. One might assume, then, that entrepreneurs and start-up companies would have a relatively easy time hiring immigrant professionals through the H-1B program. Not so. In fact, a recently released memo confirms that far from receiving preferential treatment, small businesses are singled out for heightened fraud investigations by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).


~You an see the rest of the article by following the link. NH Reps. Bass and Guinta, Senators Ayotte and Shaheen -- this should not be US Policy.

Mostly Wasted Effort at Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Court -- will the second attempt fare any better?

Talk about disappointing -- TRAC has posted the most recent information about the percentage of low priority cases that qualified for prosecutorial discretion. Take a guess, one in ten, one out of every twenty? Very few jurisdictions hit a rate of 5-10%; most are like Boston (my local area) with a rate of less than 1%.
http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/prosdiscretion/compbacklog_1206.html

Immigration Court Cases Closed Based on Prosecutorial Discretion as of May 31, 2012 Screen entries by specifying an immigration court: Immigration Court:    All       Arlington       Atlanta       Baltimore       Bloomington       Boston       Bradenton       Buffalo       Charlotte       Chicago       Cleveland       Dallas       Denver       Detroit       El Paso       Elizabeth       Eloy       Falls Church - BIA       Falls Church - CIJ       Falls Church       Florence       Guaynabo       Hagatna       Harlingen       Hartford       Honolulu       Houston - Detained       Houston       Imperial       Kansas City       Lancaster       Las Vegas       Los Angeles       Los Fresnos       Lumpkin       Memphis       Miami - Krome       Miami       Napanoch       New Orleans       New York - DET       New York       Newark       Oakdale       Omaha       Orlando       Philadelphia       Phoenix       Portland       Saipan       Salt Lake City       San Antonio       San Diego       San Francisco       San Pedro       Seattle       Tacoma       Tucson       York  [Active Districts] [All Districts - Activity relative to Backlog] Order entries by clicking on the column header Immigration Court ▾ Hearing Location Case Backlog (as of September 2011) Cases Closed Based on Prosecutorial Discretion Closures as a Percent of Backlog All Immigration Courts   298,145 4,585 1.5 Arlington Arlington Detained Location 471 0 0.0 Arlington Arlington, Virginia 8,004 85 1.1 Arlington Virginia Department of Corrections 22 0 0.0 Atlanta Atlanta Detained Location 211 0 0.0 Atlanta Atlanta Federal Prison 96 0 0.0 Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia 6,358 61 1.0 Atlanta Georgia Department of Corrections- Diagnostic 3 0 0.0 Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland 5,256 346 6.6 Baltimore Delaware Department of Corrections 1 0 0.0 Baltimore Maryland Correctional Institute 8 0 0.0 Bloomington Bloomington 141 0 0.0 Bloomington Bloomington - BLM 2,721 12 0.4 Bloomington Minnesota Correctional Facility 73 0 0.0 Bloomington North Dakota Department of Corrections 1 0 0.0 Bloomington South Dakota Department of Corrections 4 0 0.0 Boston Boston Detained 181 4 2.2 Boston Boston, Massachusetts 9,046 67 0.7 Boston Massachusetts Department of Corrections 17 0 0.0 Boston New Hampshire Department of Corrections 1 0 0.0 Boston Plymouth County Corretional Facility 1 0 0.0 Buffalo Batavia Service Processing Center 204 0 0.0 Buffalo Buffalo, New York 2,015 11 0.5 Charlotte Charlotte 3,940 164 4.2 Chicago Chicago Detained 497 0 0.0 Chicago Chicago, Illinois 15,662 58 0.4 Chicago Illinois DOC- Statesville 2 0 0.0 Chicago Indiana Youth Center 17 0 0.0 Cleveland Butler County Sheriff's Office 55 0 0.0 Cleveland Cleveland Detained Location 56 0 0.0 Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio 3,677 98 2.7 Cleveland Ohio Dept. of Corr., Correctional Reception Center - ORI 32 0 0.0 Dallas Big Spring Corr. Ctr. (Airpark) 46 0 0.0 Dallas Dallas Detained 41 0 0.0 Dallas Dallas, Texas 3,588 89 2.5 Dallas Eden, Texas 22 0 0.0 Dallas Johnson County Jail 55 0 0.0 Dallas Oklahoma City Detained 81 0 0.0 Dallas Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1,144 9 0.8 Dallas Rolling Plains Detention Center 131 0 0.0 Dallas Southwest Key Program 95 0 0.0 Denver Denver Detention Facility 273 0 0.0 Denver Denver, Colorado 7,579 401 5.3 Denver Salt Lake City, Utah 1 0 0.0 Detroit Detroit Detainees 112 0 0.0 Detroit Detroit, Michigan 2,817 200 7.1 Detroit Michigan Dept. of Corr., Prison of So. Michigan 24 0 0.0 El Paso El Paso Service Processing Center 330 1 0.3 El Paso El Paso, Texas 4,872 25 0.5 El Paso Otero County Processing Center 436 0 0.0 El Paso Reeves County Law Enforcement Center 28 0 0.0 Elizabeth Elizabeth Service Processing Center 771 20 2.6 Elizabeth Newark - Video Hearings 4 0 0.0 Elizabeth Newark Video Hearings 22 0 0.0 Eloy Eloy INS Detention Center 1,069 0 0.0 Florence Arizona State Prison-Central Unit 17 0 0.0 Florence Arizona State Prison-Rynning Unit 10 0 0.0 Florence Arizona State Prison-Special Management Unit 1 1 0 0.0 Florence Arizona State Prison-Special Management Unit 2 2 0 0.0 Florence Florence, Arizona 703 1 0.1 Guaynabo San Juan, Puerto Rico 572 59 10.3 Guaynabo St. Croix, Virgin Islands 53 5 9.4 Guaynabo St. Thomas, Virgin Islands 173 16 9.2 Hagatna Agana, Guam 96 0 0.0 Hagatna Agana, Guam - Department of Corrections 6 0 0.0 Harlingen Brownsville, Texas 2 0 0.0 Harlingen Harlingen, Texas 4,328 200 4.6 Harlingen Willacy Detention Facility 3 0 0.0 Hartford FCI Danbury Federal Correctional Institution 37 0 0.0 Hartford Hartford, Connecticut 1,295 10 0.8 Hartford Mcdougal-Walker Correctional Institution 105 0 0.0 Honolulu Hawaii Department of Corrections 2 0 0.0 Honolulu Honolulu, Hawaii 312 6 1.9 Honolulu Honolulu, Prison Detainees - PJKK Federal Bldg. 12 0 0.0 Houston Boken Kamp Children's Center 73 0 0.0 Houston Houston, Texas 9,017 1 0.0 Houston - Detained Houston Service Processing Center 423 0 0.0 Houston - Detained Polk County Detention Facility 519 0 0.0 Houston - Detained Texas DOC- Huntsville 131 0 0.0 Imperial Calipatria State Prison 13 0 0.0 Imperial El Centro, California 186 0 0.0 Imperial Imperial, California 735 9 1.2 Kansas City Kansas City Immigration Court - Detained 74 0 0.0 Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri 3,590 73 2.0 Kansas City St. Louis, Missouri 1 0 0.0 Kansas City St. Louis, Missouri Detained 38 0 0.0 Lancaster Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution 73 0 0.0 Lancaster Mira Loma Detention Facility 711 0 0.0 Lancaster United States Penitentiary - Lompoc 10 0 0.0 Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada 2,587 42 1.6 Las Vegas Nevada Department of Corrections 3 0 0.0 Las Vegas Reno, Nevada 278 5 1.8 Los Angeles Adelanto Detention Facility East 173 0 0.0 Los Angeles Los Angeles 3 193 1 0.5 Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 48,015 534 1.1 Los Angeles Orange County Detained 239 0 0.0 Los Angeles San Pedro 1 0 0.0 Los Fresnos Port Isabel Service Processing Center 546 1 0.2 Lumpkin Stewart Detention Center - Lumpkin Georgia - LGD 895 0 0.0 Memphis Louisville, Kentucky 1,443 9 0.6 Memphis Memphis, Tennessee 3,792 75 2.0 Miami Broward Correctional Institution 22 0 0.0 Miami Central Florida Reception Center 20 0 0.0 Miami Charlotte Correctional Institution 47 0 0.0 Miami Florida DOC- Chipley 147 0 0.0 Miami Miami, Florida 9,962 141 1.4 Miami North Florida Reception Center (NFC) 133 0 0.0 Miami South Florida Reception Center 70 0 0.0 Miami - Krome Broward Transitional Center 396 0 0.0 Miami - Krome Glades County Prison 115 0 0.0 Miami - Krome Krome North Service Processing Center 641 1 0.2 Miami - Krome Monroe County Detention Ctr and Sheriff Office 9 0 0.0 Napanoch Bedford Hills Correctional Facility 11 0 0.0 Napanoch Downstate Correctional Facility 170 0 0.0 Napanoch Ulster Correctional Facility 181 0 0.0 New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana 2,001 3 0.1 New York New York Annex 2 0 0.0 New York New York City, New York 43,162 258 0.6 New York - DET New York Service Processing Center (Varick St) 778 2 0.3 Newark Newark, New Jersey 9,301 31 0.3 Oakdale DHS-Litigation Unit/Oakdale 360 3 0.8 Oakdale Federal Corr. Inst.-Oakdale 1 8 0 0.0 Oakdale Lasalle Detention Facility 310 0 0.0 Oakdale Louisiana Department of Corrections 1 0 0.0 Oakdale Oakdale Federal Detention Center 308 0 0.0 Omaha Iowa Department of Corrections 39 0 0.0 Omaha Nebraska Department of Corrections 31 0 0.0 Omaha Omaha Immigration Court - Detained 274 1 0.4 Omaha Omaha, Nebraska 4,706 62 1.3 Orlando Immigration Court 31 0 0.0 Orlando Orlando, Florida 5,211 64 1.2 Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 4,495 128 2.8 Philadelphia Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 314 6 1.9 Phoenix Arizona DOC- Perryville 13 0 0.0 Phoenix Arizona State Prison Complex - Lewis 87 0 0.0 Phoenix Arizonza State Prison- Phoenix West 2 0 0.0 Phoenix Phoenix Juvenile 201 1 0.5 Phoenix Phoenix, Arizona 9,227 49 0.5 Portland Anchorage, Alaska 176 10 5.7 Portland Boise, Idaho 731 8 1.1 Portland Helena, Montana 44 0 0.0 Portland Idaho Department of Corrections 18 0 0.0 Portland Montana Dept. of Corr., Montana State Prison 4 0 0.0 Portland Portland Detention Center 15 0 0.0 Portland Portland, Oregon 2,151 136 6.3 Portland Portland, Oregon - POO 1 0 0.0 Saipan Northern Marianas Detained 1 0 0.0 Saipan Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands 78 0 0.0 Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, Utah 1,173 32 2.7 San Antonio Karnes County Correction Center 15 0 0.0 San Antonio Laredo, Texas -  Port of Entry 19 0 0.0 San Antonio Laredo, Texas - Detention Facility 24 0 0.0 San Antonio Pearsall, Texas - Detention Facility 521 1 0.2 San Antonio San Antonio Detained 136 0 0.0 San Antonio San Antonio, Texas 7,196 44 0.6 San Antonio T. Don Hutto Residential 87 0 0.0 San Diego California DOC- San Ysidro 7 0 0.0 San Diego Corrections Corporation of America-San Diego,ca 273 0 0.0 San Diego San Diego, California 3,986 244 6.1 San Diego San Diego: Federal Bldg. 4 0 0.0 San Francisco Pleasanton - Federal Correctional Institution 21 0 0.0 San Francisco San Francisco Annex 75 12 16.0 San Francisco San Francisco Detained 327 0 0.0 San Francisco San Francisco, California 16,992 387 2.3 Seattle Peace Arch Port of Entry 29 0 0.0 Seattle Seattle, Washington 5,186 243 4.7 Seattle Washington Corrections Center 16 0 0.0 Tacoma Northwest Detention Center 607 1 0.2 Tucson Arizona DOC- Tucson 185 0 0.0 Tucson Tucson, Arizona 934 18 1.9 York Allenwood Correctional Inst. 17 0 0.0 York Berks 34 0 0.0 York Cambria County Prison 2 0 0.0 York Clinton County Prison 21 0 0.0 York Moshannon Valley Correctional Facility 60 0 0.0 York Pennsylvania Dept. of Corr., State Corr. Inst. 52 0 0.0 York Pike County Prison 79 1 1.3 York York County Prison 260 0 0.0