The backlog of cases currently pending in U.S. Immigration Courts has been growing steadily in recent years, according to statistics from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a government watchdog organization based at Syracuse University. Eleven months into fiscal year (FY) 2013 that ended September...
Murthy and Five Former Ambassadors: Senate IT-Contracting Language Must Go!Years of legislative inertia have held back even the simplest of immigration reforms in Congress, so we were greatly cheered in June 2013 when the U.S. Senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill - not least because...
For generations, international development experts have been fretting about the so-called "brain drain," when a country's most promising students and professionals leave a less-developed country to move overseas - often permanently - in pursuit of better opportunities. Over the years, "brain drain" has been blamed...
Every year, the U.S. Census Bureau posts the results of its latest American Community Survey, a statistical compendium that tracks several demographic traits of the American population: employment and education, income and lack of it, the age, gender, ethnicity, and languages of the people who...
The fate of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) remains uncertain, at best, as the House of Representatives haltingly works its way through the crowded legislative agenda to which it returned at the beginning of the month. We won't rehearse here the welter of economic arguments that...
If you've been following the twists and turns of the immigration debate in recent years, you've surely noticed the massive wave of state-level immigration bills that crested in 2011, and, for a time, seemed to be receding for good. These included Arizona's infamous S.B. 1070...
In the ongoing soap opera that comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) has become, CIR has been pronounced dead - or near death - so many times that the plot line is getting a bit stale. Rumors of the untimely demise of immigration reform, comprehensive or otherwise,...
If you are finding the Obama administration's immigration policy to be a bit - shall we say - schizophrenic, you are not alone. On the one hand, the administration has presided over an unprecedented flurry of immigrant enforcement activity, deporting record numbers of undocumented immigrants...
Remember Tri-Valley University? The one that left hundreds of foreign students high and dry as it collapsed in a hail of indictments, when ICE investigators found it had fraudulently obtained government permission to enroll them? TVU is a cautionary tale for any lawyer who handles...
Many astute observers think the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill probably would pass in the House, if it were given an up-or-down vote there. The world may never know, because House Speaker John Boehner has pledged to serve up immigration reform à la carte,...
