(updated May 9, 2008)

• The Social Security Administration No-Match Program: Inefficient, Ineffective, and Costly - This report provides an overview of SSA’s no-match letter program, a summary of DHS’s new supplemental proposed rule regarding no-match letters, and an overview of the unintended consequences of no-match letters that are sent to employers. (May 2008)



• Press Release: On the Eve of an EEVS Hearing: What Should We Be Listening For? - This week, the House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on electronic employment verification systems (EEVS) -- Washington's latest magic potion for dealing with the nation's broken immigration system. As more hearings are expected in the coming weeks in other committees, including Homeland Security and Judiciary, what questions should the American public want to hear be thoroughly asked and answered? (May 2008)



• E-Verify and Arizona: Early Experiences Portend a Rough Road Ahead - This fact check looks at the experiences of Arizona’s employers and employees with E-Verify, and early signals of its impact on the state’s economy. (April 2008)



• Litigation Clearinghouse Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 5 (May 7, 2008)
  This issue of AILF's Litigation Clearinghouse Newsletter covers a new suit seeking detention standards, update on religious workers class action, class action certification in a naturalization delay suit, limitations on the categorical approach, and litigation resources on the web.



• IPC is Hiring! - AILF’s Immigration Policy Center (IPC) seeks a Communications and Research Coordinator. Candidates should be proactive, detail-oriented individual with strong writing skills to coordinate and assist with the day-to-day research, writing, and administrative activities of the IPC.



• USCIS Issues New Directive to Benefit Thousands of VAWA EWI Self-Petitioners
  Work by a coalition of organizations, including the LAC’s Mary Kenney and Beth Werlin, was instrumental in convincing USCIS to issue a new directive on VAWA eligibility that will benefit thousands of people. To learn more about this issue, read AILF's press release. View the VAWA Fact Sheet issued on April 21, 2008 and an April 11, 2008 guidance memo from Michael Aytes.



• Litigation Clearinghouse Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 4 (April 15, 2008)
  This issue of AILF's Litigation Clearinghouse Newsletter covers a recently filed naturalization delay class action, a damages suit against USICE employees for violating 4th and 5th Amendment rights during home raids, and a recent decision regarding the confidentiality of asylum applications.



• Mandamus Jurisdiction over Delayed Applications: Responding to the Government's Motion to Dismiss (Updated April 8, 2008)
  This practice advisory outlines in summary form arguments to make in response to the government's motion to dismiss a mandamus or Administrative Procedure Act case brought to remedy the delayed adjudication of an immigration benefit applications such as an adjustment of status application.



• Litigation Clearinghouse Newsletter Volume 3, Issue 3 (March 21, 2008) - This issue of AILF's Litigation Clearinghouse Newsletter covers the Supreme Court's decision to hear an asylum case involving the persecutor bar, attorneys' fees in naturalization delay suits, pending circuit court cases addressing whether anti-immigration state and local laws are preempted by federal law, and a recent decision regarding evidence that the BIA did not mail a decision.



• Terminating Removal Proceedings to Pursue Naturalization before DHS: Strategies for Challenging Matter of Acosta Hidalgo (March 18, 2006) - This new AILF Practice Advisory sets out arguments to challenge Matter of Acosta Hidalgo, a recent BIA decision holding that IJ and BIA lack jurisdiction to determine prima facie eligibility for naturalization in order to terminate removal proceedings.



• Will EEVS Overburden the Social Security Administration? - Legislative proposals for a universal electronic employment verification system (EEVS) would place enormous burdens on the Social Security Administration. The Immigration Policy Center looks at that agency's current responsibilities. (March 2008)



• Updated Practice Advisory: Reinstatement of Removal (Updated March 14, 2008) - This practice advisory addresses where to obtain federal court review of reinstatement orders and what arguments are available to challenge the legality of reinstatement orders in federal court, including challenges to the underlying removal order.



• Introducing Immigration OnPoint - The Immigration Policy Center (IPC) is pleased to introduce Immigration OnPoint www.immigrationpolicy.org/onpoint, an online compilation of fact sheets that provide quick answers to commonly asked questions about immigrants and immigration. (March 2008)



• Immigration: Long Term Trends and America’s Future - Immigration has begun to level off and immigrants are climbing the socio-economic ladder and becoming increasingly important to the U.S. economy as workers, taxpayers, and homebuyers supporting the aging Baby Boom generation. (February 2008)



• Plaintiffs File for Rehearing En Banc in Duran Gonzales, 245(i)/I-212 Litigation. On February 27, 2008, Plaintiffs-Appellees filed a petition for rehearing en banc in Duran Gonzales v. DHS, 508 F.3d 1227 (9th Cir. 2007). Duran Gonzales is a Ninth Circuit-wide class action challenging DHS’ refusal to follow Perez-Gonzalez v. Ashcroft, 379 F.3d 783 (9th Cir. 2004).



• NEW! AILF's Public Service Announcements on Immigration
  AILF has prepared a set of Public Service Announcements (PSAs) to help you explain this issue in your community.