This Week's Immigration Update w/ Allen Orr

0:00This is Play Cain Extended, an extended version of my radio show on Series XM Urban View, Channel 1, 2, 6, which airs Monday through Friday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Here my boy, he is an immigration attorney in the former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Mr. Allen, or how you doing, sir? Well, good morning. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. Give us an immigration update. I know there's a lot going on right now across the world, but give us an update. Sure, so I don't know where to begin, honestly, but let's start with the H1B lottery is going to start on the 4th of March, which is the one opportunity that many United States companies have to sponsor individuals from abroad. And this year may be the smallest lottery ever, because if you're abroad and you win the H1B lottery, this particular government is going to charge you $100,000 to get to the country. And in the lottery system, only the individuals who are paid the most have the most propensity

1:02to win this lottery system. So for example, if you're a software engineer and you are required to have at least a bachelor's degree, and your job pays you $140,000, you're going to be in the lottery. And there's another software engineer working for a small black company and they are only able to pay them $80,000. Both of them meet the minimum wage, but the person with $80,000 will be in the lottery one time. The person with $140,000 is going to be in the lottery two times with a great propensity to win. So it's really hurting small companies across the board. We also saw that a lot of the Venezuelans that were moved to Seacot, a judge ordered and said, you have the ability to come back to the United States. And about 40 of them said, I will come back to the United States knowing that they were being detention the whole time when they're back in the United States just to get the due process they were not afforded before they were removed from the United States. There's also reporting from Ford USA, which is an immigration rights group that ICE and GHS still has $150 billion to have towards immigrant

2:04removal in the United States right now, which that's just mind boggling how much money that is to put in enforcement when they have not been able to arrest or remove any of these violent criminals that they consistently talk about all the time and even with DHS closed right now. So even with DHS not having the continuation funding from Congress, they have enough money to last the rest of this administration just on the funding that came from the big beautiful bill. In this moment, as I spoke earlier, the reason why, in many cases, there's an influx of immigrants to the United States is because we do our, we are participants in the instability of those immigrants in their home countries. And that's what we're sort of looking to see now with Cuba, also some Venezuela and also the Middle East that this instability and constant change is going to drop more immigrants here. Last night, the State Department issued a warning for all Americans that are abroad in the Middle East to register with the embassy and they grounded flights.

3:06And so just right now, immigrants is now doing a couple more flights back to the United States. So this is part of the business disruption that we have to sort of deal with is when you sort of close airports for business people because there's a lot of work, I mean, there's a lot of work that goes on in Dubai, there's also a lot of tourism that goes on in Dubai. And if people feel as though they're not going to be safe in Dubai, people are not going to go to Dubai. And a lot of Americans have business in Dubai because it's one of the easier places to get a visa, specifically if you're dealing with the Middle East, you have to go through the long haul trying to get someone to come to the United States. So that's why you sort of meet there, sort of also a center of the world in some places because immigrants flies in their really great flight. So that's part of the problems that we sort of see going in that perspective. We also have seen that the United States government is now interviewing everybody for almost every case, whether it be a family case, a business case, many of those applications were approved right away. But now everyone's getting an application and they're re-opening their files if it's a naturalization application to say, well, what happened when you got your green car? Did you tell the truth on every box to ask someone years later, five years in most cases to

4:10say, is this the correct answer? And how does this manifest itself? There is a mayor, and I will pull the story in a second because I can't pull it right now. There's a former mayor from a county in Florida who's a Haitian who has a naturalized citizen. The government has re-opened his case and said, you are not who you say you are. And we're going to denaturalize you and then put you into removal from the United States. And this person has finished the process years ago. So in order for someone to become a United States citizen, in every case, you have a guy to have some type of non-immorate visa for some period of time generally in this country. But even after that, unless you marry a United States citizen, if you marry United States citizen, you have to be a green card holder for three years. If you don't marry United States citizen, then you have to be a green card holder for five years. Everyone gets that interview that you have to make sure you speak English, and your documents. Everyone gets vetted to see exactly who they are or what that entity is before they approve you to be United States citizen. Now what this government is doing

5:12is going back in and opening all of those cases with regards to those foreign nationals. And I believe that it is a way to attack one to keep people who are green card holders now from applying for the green card, but also a way of removing people who they don't deem to be Americans by opening their applications to denaturalize them and to get them out of the system from voting, right? And remove their status from the United States and potentially remove the status of their children in some cases that they can if this changes on any preferred argument they were having from being United States citizens. So it's a full flow on attack on this. And hopefully this month, you will see from the National Bar Association and hopefully the end of OACP that we're going to do and know your rights because we know ISIS now going everywhere. And Tom Holman's goal is to start going into companies, all companies to make sure that people have the appropriate work authorization. And we're going to make sure that people are ready to respond to say, I'm a citizen, this proves I'm a citizen, ISIS no jurisdiction here. So in case folks may not know, according to the Tampa Bay Times, it is and the former North Miami

6:19mayor, I can't pronounce his name. Felipe, being Ami, I could be saying it wrong from Haiti, like you said, he entered the US in 1995, reportedly using a passport with somebody else's photo. He used multiple identities and he failed to disclose prior marriages and children. He obtained a green card through a marriage and but the government says that it was it was bogus. And he reportedly failed to disclose a prior deportation order. But he did become a naturalized US citizen in 2006 and then 20 years later, the federal government decided they are now filing to strip him of his citizenship. His attorney says the allegations will be addressed in court and that no findings have been made as of yet. Denaturalizing somebody, revoking someone's US citizenship after it has already been granted is rare and historically it has been used in cases like war crimes, terrorism and so on.

7:21Just almost would add to that, Alan. Yeah, no, so the the president's goal is to denaturalize 200 people a month. How do they decide? They look for people that they so it's interesting that he was a mayor, right? And so they're going out to people who have these political platforms or that someone who's in the public eye to denaturalize them as power. Fascinating. Yeah, listen, it is important that we are aware what's happening in the world of immigration right now because if you think it won't impact you just because you may not be a quote unquote immigrant, it most certainly can. It most certainly can. So that's important. Thank you for listening to Claycane Extended. If you want to hear more tune into my show on Series XM Urban View channel 1, 2, 6 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. You know the deal y'all. I never really gone.