Stacy Tolchin and Ahilan Arulanantham


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ACLU of Southern California staff attorney Ahilan Arulanantham, right, with attorny Stacy Tolchin at the 15th Annual Law Luncheon, hosted by the ACLU/SC Foundation. Tolchin was presented with the Equal Justice Advocacy Award for her work on cases challenging immigration raids, including National Lawyers Guild v. Chertoff and in re: Perez-Cruz.

Laurence Banville and Mairead Conley


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Two of the three Irish Echo "40 Under 40" winners from the Philadelphia area.

Banville, an attorney who was born in Wexford, Ireland, is general counsel and partner in the firm Alliance Equals LLC in Philadelphia, president of Irish Network-Philadelphia, and sits on the board of Irish Network USA. He has also been named to the Irish Legal 100, an annual publication that recognized Irish and Irish-American lawyers.

Conley is the reigning Philadelphia and Mid-Atlantic Rose of Tralee. She is also deputy director of community programming at the Irish Immigration Center of Philadelphia, treasurer for Irish Network-Philadelphia, and active in the Reform Immigration for America campaign. She is a member of the selection committee of the Inspirational Irish Women awards, a joint program of the Irish Center and the Irish Immigration Center.

Drexel Law Volunteers


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These budding lawyers help with legal consulting at the Irish Immigration Center in Upper Darby. They are, from left, Kevin Rowe, Lauren Carey, and Kaitlyn Cahill.

Protest against DNA Immigration laws


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There was a small meeting on the Trocadero (as known as the "Human rights" square as well) this saturday. The protest was against the French new Immigration laws being voted involving DNA test to check Family Immigration.

These kind of tests are already done in other European countries but lots of people do not want to heard of it in France. Especially when we knowing France Immigration history (a welcoming country) and Family notion, France racism and xenophobia history as well…. and especially when current President once said (few months before his election) "There is undoublty a DNA cause in violence, pedophilia"…

The law should be validated/cancelled today… it was voted on September 20th at 4h20 am by 23 deputies (French Assembly has 577 deputies)… what a great example of Democracy !

Police Chiefs Concerned Arizona Immigration Law Will Strain Resources


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Following a meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder, police chiefs from several Western states held a press conference to discuss concerns regarding Arizona’s controversial immigration law.

Immigration Law was established because many foreigners wanted to come to the United States to have a better life and they needed to have a standard of law. In the beginning of the countries history there was a open door policy towards immigrants and anybody could come to have a new life. But then in the late 1800′s they started limiting certain groups from coming in and these were mainly savory characters looking for trouble. By the early 20′s the Us had a quota system and this further produces Immigration Law.

Many people that are in the Us need to have a Immigration Lawyer so that they can keep there green card status up to date. If you visa expires you can be asked to leave the country so it is important that you find an attorney that has the knowledge you need to help you stay in the country legally.

If you are found to not have the proper documents to be in this country then you can be deported and sent back to the country of your birth. It is important that you understand how Immigration Law works so that you can obtain citizenship is you are looking to stay in the U.S.

Remember that it is important for you to be legal so that you do not get deported back to your country of birth. You need to understand the Immigration Law’s of this country so you know what you need to do to gain citizenship. It is also a good idea for you to find a good Immigration Lawyer that has the experience you need to help you out. This type of law has been around for a long time and is basically to protect the citizens of this country.