It is a truth universally acknowledged that election-year politics add more heat than light to the issues of the day, and in that respect, this election year is little different from others - especially where immigration is concerned. Although there are many legitimate concerns about...
Canada appears to have weathered the worldwide economic storm better than most, including the United States, according to a recent article in the Portland Press Herald, of Maine. (See U.S. Might Learn from Canada's Rebound, by Don Lee, Portland Press Herald, 18.Jul.2010.) Along with careful...
USCIS taketh away, but sometimes it giveth. In July of 1997, USCIS raised fees for a broad range of immigration filings, including the green card, which jumped overnight from about $400 to over $1,000, including the mandatory biometrics fee. USCIS recently announced its intention to...
The Murthy Law Firm is proud to report that we have successfully resolved another case in which a foreign national was rejected at the U.S. port of entry. This case involved an incorrect determination that the individual was inadmissible to the United States due to...
For now, GOP strategists seem content to ride the wave of anti-immigrant sentiment emanating from the right fringes of that party, with prominent national Republicans at pains to show their border-tightening, ID-checking credentials at every turn. At the same time, many in the party are...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) runs an enormous system of detention facilities to house the thousands of immigrants it takes into custody each year, for a variety of reasons, ranging from unauthorized entry into the United States, to assertion of an asylum claim, among...
The most controversial portions of Arizona's immigration law, S.B. 1070 will not go into effect on July 29, 2010. On July 28, 2010, the U.S. District Court for Arizona ruled favorably on portions of a motion for injunction filed by the U.S. Federal Government. The...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on July 15th that the agency reached a major goal this year in granting all 10,000 of the available U visas to nonimmigrant crime victims who seek to remain in the United States. (See USCIS Reaches Milestone:...
Reasonable minds can differ on the origins and effects of - and possible solutions to - our broken immigration system, but some interlocutors in our national immigration debate have purer motives than others, and not everyone is completely candid about these motives. At times, beneath...
Mere politics sullied the purity of the turf during this year's All-Star Game, in Anaheim, California, as civil rights advocates, religious leaders, and even some of the players went on record in favor of boycotting baseball's 2011 All-Star Game, if it takes place as scheduled...
