For Tomás Péndola, an immigrant from Argentina, it was a normal week teaching chemistry in a public high school here, filling a whiteboard with dense equations and coaxing his students to decipher them. For Yeni Benítez, a Mexican immigrant in Wisconsin, this week was when “everything just fell apart.” Mr. […]
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Charles Foster Reappointed to Serve on the Greater Houston Partnership’s Executive Committee
20 Feb
by Foster, on News
HOUSTON – Feb. 20, 2015 – Charles Foster, founder and chairman of Foster LLP, has been reappointed to serve on the Executive Committee of the Greater Houston Partnership (GHP). Foster is a distinguished business and community leader in the Houston area and is a recipient of innumerable awards. As an […]
DALLAS (AP) – A prominent Dallas immigration lawyer has been arrested after a federal indictment accused her of submitting fraudulent applications for crime-victim visas for clients. Immigration agents arrested Sherin Thawer on Friday at her home in the Dallas suburb of Coppell (kuh-PEHL’). She appeared before a federal magistrate in […]
Brenda Armendariz, her husband and their two Mexico-born children were hoping to resolve their constant fears of being deported after President Barack Obama issued his latest executive orders on immigration. But now that a federal judge in Texas has blocked Obama’s efforts to protect four million more immigrants, her family […]