Murthy Law Firm attorneys are in demand as guest speakers at professional conferences and continuing-education seminars. Why? Because they have achieved a high level of legal scholarship and technical know-how in the course of their law practice. A recent case in point: two of the...
Silicon Valley is world famous for its culture of innovation, for a hothouse atmosphere where new ideas can grow - seemingly overnight - into successful companies, even entirely new industries. It can't hurt that investors often are tripping over each other to pour money into...
Not everyone in the GOP was happy to hear House Speaker Boehner's announcement, some weeks ago, that immigration reform was essentially off the table in 2014, ostensibly because many in his caucus did not trust the President to implement whatever reforms Congress ultimately passes. Conservative...
Though U.S. immigration officials have not quite rolled up the welcome mat for high-tech workers from overseas, in recent years, it's become progressively more difficult for certain types of nonimmigrant workers to get their visas approved. The USCIS has been taking a harder line in...
Though the politics of immigration reform remain fraught with controversy, the economic reasons for pressing forward are as compelling as ever. As a recent study from the American Competitiveness Alliance (ACA) makes clear, immigration, innovation, and entrepreneurship are closely intertwined: "Immigration can contribute to economic...
Social scientists have long recognized that there's something special about immigrants. As historians know, immigrant energy, creativity, and brainpower have driven the growth of this country from its very beginning, and economists often remark about the disproportionate number of patents and doctorates earned by foreign-born...
What does immigration have to do with American agriculture? Quite a bit, according to a recent study from the American Farm Bureau, a leading advocacy organization for the nation's agricultural sector. The relationship is largely a question of labor economics. As the Farm Bureau study...
A post on the Christian Science Monitor WebSite put us in mind of a popular bumper sticker that admonishes: "Don't believe everything you think." This advice is especially relevant in the context of immigration, because the conventional wisdom so often proves to be wrong -...
When President Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in the summer of 2012, many supported it on the grounds of fairness: it didn't seem right to deport undocumented immigrants who came here as children, through no fault of their own -...
Now you see it, now you don't. When the House GOP released its immigration reform framework at the end of January, there was guarded optimism that the planets might snap into alignment, however briefly, to make an immigration reform deal possible in 2014. Granted, their...
