 Matthew Hellrung is co-Founder & Partner at Meltzer Hellrung LLP. He helps companies create scalable and compliant immigration programs that withstand audits and policy changes. With over a decade of experience, he’s a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies and HR leaders    for his expertise in I-9 compliance, global mobility, and visa sponsorship. In this episode, Matthew talks about “What HR needs to know before sponsoring that next work visa". 
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Ramon Ontiveros’ conspiracy to defraud the United States is not an anomaly, it is a lesson learned from a system built to look away. This essay examines how Ontiveros’ actions reveal deeper failures within the U.S. immigration and labor structures: a culture that rewards coercion, punishes vulnerability, and turns immigrant fear into an economic resource. Rather than treating the immigration system as “broken,” this work asks a more urgent question: What if the system is functioning exactly as designed? What if its inefficiencies, contradictions, and abuses are not errors, but features? Through political reflection, philosophical analysis, and firsthand insight into coercion, retaliation, and institutional silence, this essay confronts the uncomfortable possibility that exploitation in America is not an accident, it is an expectation. 

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Samuel Martínez Roque vs. The United States of America: Political Essays on American Hypocrisy

Ramon Ontiveros’ Conspiracy to Defraud the U.S. Immigration System: A Political Indictment of American Hypocrisy

Ramon Ontiveros' Conspiracy to Defraud the United States

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A new section of the Immigration Rules, ‘Part Suitability’, came into force on 11 November 2025. For many categories of visa, little will change, but for some family and human-rights based applications, this could make a huge difference. 

Roberta Haslam and Karma Hickman, immigration lawyers at Bindmans, discuss the implications for people applying for Partner Visas who have overstayed or who have convictions.

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Ramon Ontiveros’ conspiracy to defraud the United States is not an anomaly, it is a lesson learned from a system built to look away. This essay examines how Ontiveros’ actions reveal deeper failures within the U.S. immigration and labor structures: a culture that rewards coercion, punishes vulnerability, and turns immigrant fear into an economic resource. Rather than treating the immigration system as “broken,” this work asks a more urgent question: what if the system is functioning exactly as designed? What if its inefficiencies, contradictions, and abuses are not errors, but features? Through political reflection, philosophical analysis, and firsthand insight into coercion, retaliation, and institutional silence, this essay confronts the uncomfortable possibility that exploitation in America is not an accident, it is an expectation.

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The United States of Hunger is a searing political essay that exposes the contradiction at the heart of the American project: a nation that praises freedom while punishing truth, and that celebrates justice while weaponizing hunger against the vulnerable. Through personal testimony and rigorous political reflection, Samuel Martínez Roque examines how systems built to protect citizens become tools of coercion for immigrants, where reporting abuse results in retaliation, where police defend threats as “protected speech,” and where bureaucracy functions as a modern form of cruelty. This essay exposes hunger as a political instrument, silence as a survival strategy, and truth as an act of rebellion. With unflinching clarity, Martínez Roque reveals how deprivation becomes policy, how the border becomes a stomach that digests the poor, and how liberty becomes a privilege reserved for those whose lives the system values. A philosophical, legal, and deeply human indictment of the American myth, The United States of Hunger asks the question the nation fears most: What kind of freedom is it when your survival depends not on how much English you speak, but on how much truth you can swallow just to be allowed to eat?

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The New York Immigration Coalition and allies on Sunday November 30 held a news conference to respond to the successful effort by local residents and activists to prevent ICE from seizing street vendors on Canal Street.  Several people were arrested following the blockade of the entrance to the parking garage, where dozens of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had gathered for the immigration raid. We hear from Murad Awawdeh, of the New York Immigration Coalition, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, and Hannah Stauss of Hands Off NYC.

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The conversation then turns to the war crime allegations against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who allegedly gave the orders to "kill everybody" on Venezuelan boat strikes that resulted in the killing of survivors, and what limits actually exist on the use of military force. The editors also examine a new federal ban on hemp products and the damage it could inflict on a growing legal industry. A listener asks whether recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions signal a troubling erosion of constitutional protections, and the group takes time to reflect on the legacy of playwright Tom Stoppard and his long association with free speech and small government ideals.

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