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The Debate Continues: Tweets Get UK Tourists Arrested by U.S. Border Authorities

February 10, 2012

We previously reported on our blog about two British tourists who were detained and prevented from entering the U.S. on the Visa Waiver Program due to a couple of unfortunate tweets. Forbes now quoted a spokesperson from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol stating that the tweets were not the original basis of heightened interest in…

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Alabama’s Immigration Law – The “Law of Unintended Consequences”

February 9, 2012

Crops rotting in fields, long lines at courthouses to renew car tags, massive amounts of paperwork for companies doing business with the government, and the shrinking of GDP between $2.3 billion USD and $10.8 billion USD (1% to 6% of GDP, respectively). Alabama has a problem, and that problem is House Bill 56. State legislature…

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Summer Work Program Set for Overhaul After Systematic Abuse of Foreign Students Discovered

February 7, 2012

The Council for Educational Travel, USA, has been removed from the U.S. State Department’s summer work program. The council, known as Cetusa, may no longer sponsor foreign students coming to the United States looking for summer jobs. The removal of the company follows a walkout by hundreds of foreign students from a Pennsylvania plant packing…

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Tweets Get UK Tourists Arrested by U.S. Border Authorities

February 1, 2012

“Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America?” is what Leigh van Bryan, 26, tweeted to friends about his upcoming trip to Hollywood, California. While “destroy” means “party” in British slang, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security flagged him as a potential threat, ultimately leading to his arrest after a five…

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Fifty Accused of Selling Identities to Illegal Immigrants

January 12, 2012

Fifty people have been accused of conspiring to sell the identities of hundreds of Puerto Ricans to illegal immigrants on the American mainland in the largest single fraud case ever for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the authorities said Wednesday. Hundreds of birth certificates, Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses were sold for up to $2,500…

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Gay Man Faces Deportation Despite Marriage to U.S. Citizen

January 12, 2012

Frederic Deloizy, a French national, and Mark Himes, a Harrisburg, PA native, are a happily married couple with four young children. The couple met in 1990 in Pennsylvania and wed in California in 2008. Their happiness could soon be over, however. Deloizy spent the past two decades in and out of the United States leapfrogging…

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Blocking of Amendment Against Shariah Law

January 11, 2012

As previously reported on our blog, a ban on U.S. courts considering Sharia, or Islamic, law in any proceedings passed overwhelmingly in Oklahoma on November 2, 2010. One day later, on November 3, 2010, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced that it plans to file a lawsuit against Oklahoma for passing the “Shariah law…

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Bloggen kann teuer sein

January 11, 2012

Eigentlich wollte er nur ein lustiges Bild auf seinem Blog einstellen. Dieser Spass kam dem Blogger Carsten Herkenhoff nun teuer zu stehen. Für das Weiterreichen eines Fotos des Fotografen Heinrich von Schimmer hat der Blogger 250 Euro an den Fotografen bezahlt, um einer Abmahnung zu entgehen. Den ganzen Artikel finden Sie hier. (c) Picture: freedigitalphotos.net…

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I.R.S. Revives Voluntary Disclosure Program for Offshore Accounts

January 10, 2012

At the beginning of last year we reported on our blog about the amnesty program of the Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) for offshore accounts. Yesterday, the I.R.S. announced that it would revive its so-called voluntary disclosure program for offshore accounts. The I.R.S. collected $4.4 billion in two previous programs The program’s revival is part of…

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Von Kanada in die USA mit iPad statt Reisepass

January 10, 2012

Gnadenlos und finstere Miene, so kennt man die U.S. Grenzbeamten. Eine andere Art von Grenzbeamten hat nun jedoch der 33-jährige Kanadier Martin Reisch kennengelernt. Dem jungen Mann gelang es ohne Reisepass in die USA einzureisen. Erst an der Grenze bemerkte der aus Montreal stammende Mann, dass er seinen Reisepass zu Hause vergessen hatte. Statt umzudrehen…

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