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The Federal Government Wants to Reform Immigration Laws

Because the Federal mine caves in on unsuspecting foreigners while those who speak "legal" make stash to get them out,there is no question about whether or not US Immigration Laws should be reformed. None.

To you who have chosen to write on the "No" side of this topic, know that some immigration attorneys and those who can are dancing around loopholes and land-mines created by US Immigration Laws for others to fall in. Once they fall, they come out at a cost of no less than $200.00 per hour. This discrepancy in the law surely certifies long term deposits for those who can squander on it for as long as they can. It is my least suspicion that the Federal Government collaborates with squanders on this matter, but it is a fact that the law is digging one huge grave for unsuspecting foreigners to fall in.

To illustrate, 22 C.F.R. 62.70, 62.73(a)states in certain terms that sponsors or Universities are to maintain and provide student information to US Immigration as is required. Even for students with valid requests for Universities, Universities can still hang onto the information US Immigration requests knowing very well that students running errands for the requester have no alternatives.

It is lack of provision for alternative remedies that call for reformation. The case of a student who protested Weber State University in Ogden Utah stands as witness. US immigration asked the student to provide evidence(RFE)within a specified period. The University refused to release the documents. The student applied for her records through GRAMA so that she could correspond with US Immigration, but the school still held onto some documents. The Student informed US Immigration of the dilemma to obtain the information from the University. The US Immigration officer asked the student to do the best she could to respond to the question their office asked. The student sought an attorney to help obtain the information. First it was the civil rights attorney she consulted to find out why her student information was trapped between rocks.

The University ignored the correspondence from the civil rights attorney. The student looked for an immigration attorney. The attorney asked for close to $3000.00 to help obtain the evidence from the school. In the interim, the US Immigration has declined the student's petition because the student could not furnish the evidence Immigration requested from the school. Yet the University wrote a letter on November 2, 2006 recording that the initial loss of the student's immigration status was due to "computer malfunction".

To no avail, several organizations, churches and state offices have wailed on the students behalf. Is this the dilemma and frustration and robbery that the US Federal government wishes upon unsuspecting foreign students or any foreigner? I believe not. Other students in a similar situation fled the scene. In the meantime, it should be the US Immigration objective to tell us where to go when sponsors, as in the case of this University, ignore US Immigration's requests.

Although this article focuses more on a specific case, the net is replete with cases in which foreigners continue to be bonded and stranded in the hands of immigration attorneys who well know that the only way out or the only way to calm down fears of those unfamiliar with the US legal system is by the dollar sign. This devastation will continue at the expense of desperate foreigners unless the Feds shut the mine for review!

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