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"This document announces that pursuant to a Joint Declaration between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Secretariat of Governance of the United Mexican States, CBP is expanding eligibility for participation in the Global Entry pilot to include qualified nationals of Mexico who otherwise satisfy the requirements for participation in the Global Entry pilot." FR Doc. 2010-32832 Filed 12/28/2010 at 8:45 am; Publication Date: 12/29/2010.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is undertaking an agency-wide effort to move immigration services from a paper-based model to an electronic environment. This effort is known as USCIS Transformation.
Transformation will deliver a simplified, Web-based system for benefit seekers to submit and track their applications. The new, account-based system will provide customers with improved service. It will also enhance USCIS’s ability to process cases with greater precision, security, and timeliness.
Through Transformation, USCIS is dedicated to redesigning our agency’s business processes to ensure we deliver the most effective and reliable operating model for the 21st century. We are working toward this goal with ongoing input from key stakeholders, including our customers and our federal partners.
I invite you, too, to join USCIS Transformation by visiting our Outreach Page and participating in one of our future engagement sessions. Together, we can redefine the immigration-services experience.
Thank you.
Gerri Ratliff
Chief of the Office of Transformation Coordination
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
"The plaintiffs have alleged facts sufficient to indicate that defendants Julie Myers, John Torres, Bruce Chadbourne, and Jim Martin had notice of constitutional violations under policies they created, implemented, or allowed to continue, and thus the motion to dismiss the Fourth Amendment claims against them is denied." Diaz-Bernal v. Myers, Dec. 16, 2010.
Victory in the House! Wednesday night the House attached the DREAM Act (H.R. 6497) to another moving House bill, H.R. 5281 and passed it on a vote of 216 to 198. On the Senate side, initially the Senate was scheduled to take a procedural vote Thursday morning on its version of DREAM (S. 3992). But since the House passed its bill, Senate Democrats decided to focus on the House bill and to withdraw theirs–which they did today on a vote of 59-40.
So the DREAM Act is alive and well. Within the next several days-likely after the tax cuts and other big issues get addressed-the Senate is expected to take up the House bill.
The House win has generated more momentum and changed the tone of the debate on DREAM. Ten years after the DREAM Act was first introduced, we are closer than ever to gaining passage. Last night DREAM triumphed over partisanship and won the votes of eight House Republicans and many conservative Democrats. All this creates the best possible setting for a win in the Senate. For Senators there is now a greater sense of urgency that their individual votes will be the deciding ones for a historic victory on immigration reform.
Moving with the House version is better strategically for the following reasons:
What happened in the Senate? In the past 24 hours, Senate leadership made several strategic and unprecedented moves to make sure the DREAM Act has the greatest possible chance of passage. On Wednesday, the Senate delayed its initially scheduled cloture vote on S. 3992. That delay enabled the House to take its vote and win last night. Today, Thursday, the Senate withdrew its bill on the "table" vote. Now the way is cleared for the House bill to move forward in the Senate.
"President Barack Obama told Democratic members of Congress Tuesday he wants the DREAM Act passed in the lame duck session as a “down payment” on substantial immigration reform, according to members at the meeting. And, he said, he’d call resistant senators to get them on board." Politico, Nov. 17, 2010.
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