March 9th, 2010 · Comments Off
The recent opinion issued regarding Temporary Protection Status for illegal immigrants to the United States of America, concludes that children of parents granted TPS, who did not live in the United States, are ineligible for TPS, and therefore cannot legally join their parents to live in the United States of America.
Opinion as follows:
CERVANTES v. HOLDER
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Decided: March 8, 2010.
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Tags: Human Interest
The U.S.A.’s Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, alerted the Obama administration’s Congress that approximately $31 million in U.S.A. assistance for Honduras would be forthcoming.
“We think that Honduras has taken important and necessary steps that deserve the recognition and the normalization of relations,” Ms. Clinton remarked.
She plans to discuss normalizing relations with Honduras with six nations on her visit through Latin America. Argentina and Brazil have already voiced their disapproval on the matter, to which Ms. Clinton replied, “I don’t know what they are waiting for, but that is their right to wait” … “We believe that President Lobo and his administration have taken the steps necessary to restore democracy.”
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Tags: Honduran Business & Economics · Politics in Honduras
March 5th, 2010 · Comments Off
Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes, is meeting today in Guatemala with their President, Alvaro Colom, and the President of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, to address
Honduras’ return to international recognition.
President Funes told reporters that they plan to discuss ways to help Honduras “advance in its internal process to obtain a consensus, the construction of harmony, and the coexistence of peace and democracy”.
The talks are scheduled to take place before the meeting being held of Central American Presidents with U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
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Tags: Politics in Honduras
February 12th, 2010 · Comments Off
George LeMieux, a Senator from Florida in the United States will visit Honduras on Monday, according to an official announcement from the American Embassy.
Senator LeMieux is expected to meet with President Porfirio Lobo Sosa on the subject of the existing relations between the United States and Honduras. LeMieux, a republican, will visit one of the Millennium Challenge projects, as well as Soto Cano.
The Florida Senator was one of the congresspeople last year who held up the nomination of Tom Shannon as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, until he received assurances that the U.S. would continue to normalize relations with Honduras’ government and then President-elect Lobo.
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Tags: Politics in Honduras