In this issue:

1. Openers

2. The ABC's Of Immigration, Compliance Series: Immigration Consequences of Mergers, Acquisitions and Other Corporate Changes

3. Ask Visalaw.com

4. Border and Enforcement News

-Arizona Desert a Major Avenue for Smuggled Chinese

5. News from the Courts

-Federal court in Chicago will see biggest impact in deportation appeals

-Immigration judge misconduct gives asylee another day in court

6. News Bytes

-U.S. vows to repatriate quake evacuees

-CA governor floats idea to jail illegal prisoners in Mexico

-German Homeschoolers Granted Political Asylum

-IL county board demonstrates support for amnesty

-Nationwide sweep rounds up ‘gangsters’

7. Washington Watch

-Secretary Napolitano Designates 11 New Countries as Eligible for H-2a and H-2b Nonimmigrant Visa Programs

-Government clears 200 Haitian children for humanitarian visas

-White House to discuss immigration with Cuba

8. Notes from the Visalaw.com Blogs

9. State Department Visa Bulletin: February 2010

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