Imagine a latter-day Rip Van Winkle who fell asleep twenty weeks ago or so, on June 27th, when the Senate passed its comprehensive immigration reform bill. Awakened today, having slept through the recent fiscal unpleasantness, he would be in his right mind to think that...
Though the government shutdown has come and gone, it's too soon to judge the full extent of the damage. To be sure, the full faith and credit of the United States did not implode into "full-doubt-and-debit" status, but that's not to say there aren't some...
On October 18, President Obama ended months of speculation about who would succeed Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the massive federal agency charged with securing the nation's borders, enforcing and administering U.S. immigration law, safeguarding American cyberspace, and responding...
A sort of cooling-off period has begun in our nation's capital, now that the government shutdown is safely behind us - behind us for now, at any rate. Amid sighs of relief and a drop in the collective blood pressure of official Washington, there is...
Generations of immigrants have contributed their brainpower and creativity to the grand experiment that is the United States: born risk-takers, adventurers, and entrepreneurs, people with the vision and boldness to venture beyond the borders of everything they've known up to then. This has been true...
Though odds are growing longer that Congress will pass a comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill this year, many in the business community remain concerned about what might happen if CIR does pass. Why? As we noted in a recent post, language in the Senate immigration...
Hope springs eternal, it would seem, even in the waning days of a particularly fraught session of Congress: in early October, House Democrats introduced a comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill, in the teeth of the prevailing partisan gridlock over fiscal and budgetary issues. As the...
America enjoys the great good fortune of being a top destination for the world's best and brightest. Our universities, our culture, our companies - indeed our entire economy - are all the richer for it: immigrant entrepreneurs are the creative force behind countless new technologies...
Supporters of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the possibility that the House might take up some form of immigration reform legislation when the storm clears from the fiscal and budget crises that began earlier this month. Ever since the Senate...
There's something downright gothic about the current state of immigration reform. Perhaps it's the season - Halloween is just a few weeks off - but CIR is looking more and more "undead" these days, a creature of the same twilight realm as zombies and vampires:...
