The GOP Position: Immigration under Glass
Labor Day, the quaintly traditional start of the Presidential election season, arrived this year with the memory still fresh of self-mortification Republican style — the projection of Second Amendment...
View ArticleThe Immigration Week That Was
Youthful fans of Saturday Night Live may be forgiven for assuming, however mistakenly, that SNL invented satirical television comedy. The patent for this invention probably ought to go instead to other...
View ArticleNew York Times and Ann Coulter Refuted: Immigrant Rights ARE Civil Rights
Today is the federal holiday of Columbus Day. In ironic recognition, President Obama will stop by a remote California village to dedicate the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument, memorializing the...
View ArticleThe 2012 Nation of Immigrators Awards – The IMMIs
As we count out the final hours of 2012, let’s recall the highs and lows of the past year in America’s dysfunctional immigration ecosphere. Nation of Immigrators is pleased to confer its third annual...
View ArticleThe Immigration Line is Too Damn Long (and Slow)
Steadfastly opposing a path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants, the anti-immigration crowd has long trumpeted an array of related memes: Why don’t they just get into line like everyone else?...
View ArticleThe Xenophobes Can’t Kill Immigration Reform – But What Should CIR Supporters...
The usual xenophobic suspects made the usual noises after the tragic events in Boston last week. Perhaps the most premature outcry came from electrified-border-fence proponent, Rep. Steve King,...
View ArticleImmigration Voices – Careen Shannon: “Edward Snowden and the Politics of Asylum”
[Blogger’s note: Our guest blogger today is Careen Shannon, Of Counsel at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New...
View ArticleFour Post-Infosys Strategies for Corporate Customers and Consultants to...
Samuel Herbert, Her Majesty’s Home Secretary from 1931-32 (the British equivalent of the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security), could well have been speaking about two recent immigration-related events...
View ArticleThe 2013 Nation of Immigrators Awards – The IMMIs Are Announced
Hindsight, the armchair pundits say, is 20-20. The year 2013 has proven them wrong. The end-of-year’s rear-view mirror onto the world of U.S. immigration shows impenetrable fog. Unsurprisingly, as...
View ArticleThe Immigration Pony in Eric Cantor’s Defeat
The usual voices said trite things when a sliver of Richmond, Virginia Republican primary voters last Tuesday rejected Eric Cantor’s bid to continue as Majority Leader in the House of Representatives....
View ArticleThe Immigration Pony in Eric Cantor’s Defeat
The usual voices said trite things when a sliver of Richmond, Virginia Republican primary voters last Tuesday rejected Eric Cantor’s bid to continue as Majority Leader in the House of Representatives....
View ArticlePursuing a National Interest Exception to the Presidential Entry Bans on...
We’ve seen this movie before. Scene 1: The President issues a proclamation in reliance on his authority to restrict the entry of certain noncitizens under Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) §...
View ArticleWhy? Oh My! ~ State Department Makes It Harder for Travelers from the...
“America is back, the trans-Atlantic alliance is back.” – So declared President Biden on February 23, 2021. Apparently, however, Antony J. Blinken, the newly installed U.S. Secretary of State (DOS),...
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