Firm Wins Permanent Residence for Client Who Entered the U.S. Without Inspection at Age 10

By Shahid Haque-Hausrath, on April 6th, 2010.

Today, the Firm won permanent residence for a client from Mexico who had entered the United States without inspection in 1993, when he was only 10 years old. For the last 16 years, our client has lived in the United States without documented status, getting work as he could find it. After today, he can search for a job on the open market, and pursue a fair living wage for himself and his family. [...]

April 6th, 2010 | Leave a comment

Immigrants Must Be Included in Health Care Reform

By Shahid Haque-Hausrath, on July 9th, 2009.

While we are holding our breath for our representatives to enact health care reform that includes a strong public option, Senator Max Baucus has already announced that any plan that comes out of his office will “not cover undocumented workers because that’s too politically explosive.”  The debate over coverage of undocumented workers has blazed in the [...]

July 9th, 2009 | 3 comments

No Human Being is Illegal: Why use of the term “illegal alien” is inaccurate, offensive, and should be eliminated from our public discourse.

By Shahid Haque-Hausrath, on February 5th, 2009.
No Human Being is Illegal

One can rarely enter into a discussion about immigration without hearing the term “illegal alien,” or references to undocumented immigrants as simply “illegals.” Our basic discourse has come to accept these terms, despite the fact that they are highly inaccurate and pejorative. Of course, not everyone who uses these terms intends to color undocumented immigrants with the stigma that these terms carry with them. Therefore, the purpose of this post is to explain why these terms should be eliminated from our discourse. [...]

February 5th, 2009 | 2 comments