By Sean Collins Walsh and Brandon Mulder, American-Statesman Staff BASTROP —At 7:23 p.m. Saturday, 27-year-old Jacqueline Benitez-Quintana was driving in western Bastrop County when she was pulled over by a sheriff’s corporal for failing to use her blinker while changing lanes. When the officer, Brandon Stark, learned she was driving […]
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Foster Ranked Top Tier 1 Among 2018 “Best Law Firms” Surveys by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®
8 Nov
by Foster LLP, on News
HOUSTON – Nov. 1, 2017 – Foster LLP, a leading immigration law firm delivering the full spectrum of U.S. and global immigration solutions, has been recognized as a metropolitan Tier 1 firm in the 2018 “Best Law Firms” survey by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®. Foster received […]
Undocumented immigrants provide Texas with net benefit of more than $700 million annually, report says
8 Nov
by Foster LLP, on News
By Will Anderson Undocumented immigrants contribute about $2.7 billion to the Texas economy while receiving about $2 billion in public services from the state — a net benefit of $703 million that critics of Texas’ restrictive new immigration law are touting. The numbers come from a new report by AngelouEconomics, […]
Federal immigration officials Tuesday evening denied that a new policy by Sheriff Sally Hernandez led them to conduct a major enforcement operation in the Austin area. But, in a hint of their changing strategy, federal agents said more enforcement is needed in places such as Travis County where local authorities […]