It's indefinable, but unmistakable: that certain something that makes a person creative, uniquely insightful, and extremely successful. New York Times columnist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Tom Friedman, has this quality in abundance, and when he talks, smart people sit up and listen, be they...
Adam Rosen, a Supervising Attorney and Member at the Murthy Law Firm, has published an article on Consular Non-Reviewability Doctrine in the Summer 2013 Immigration and Naturalization Committee Newsletter of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section on International Law. The ABA's International Law Section is...
After the Senate passed its version of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) earlier this summer, proponents of CIR had the sense, at least briefly, that political momentum was on their side. That said, few were optimistic about CIR's prospects in the House, and virtually everyone expected...
Nonimmigrant visas help American businesses to compete in the global hunt for talent, allowing them to hire the best and brightest minds available on the international labor market. Virtually everyone in the U.S. high-tech industry has heard of the two most common nonimmigrant visas -...
For years, support for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) was largely a matter of party affiliation: the vast majority of supporters were Democrats, and opponents were largely Republican. Now it's more complicated. The demographics have shifted in recent months as more and more leading conservatives have...
Perhaps it's true that desperate times call for desperate measures, but it can't be a good sign that Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) - one of the GOP's leading advocates for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) - is resorting to scare tactics, hoping to drive more of...
There are many reasons that every American should care about immigration reform, but perhaps none more compelling than this: we all have to eat, and our food supply is heavily dependent upon the immigrant laborers who bring in the harvest. A recent study released by...
Most of the public debate over immigration reform has ignored its impact on a key sector of the U.S. economy: travel and tourism. This, despite the fact that travel and tourism "comprise the largest service-export industry in the U.S., setting a record $165.6 billion in...
As the former House Speaker, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, famously said: all politics is local. With that in mind, the White House is making a full-court press to show the positive local impact of the Senate comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill - the bill it...
Shortly before Congress high-tailed it out of Washington for the August recess, two of the Obama administration's point people on comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) held a nationwide teleconference with business leaders to discuss the economic benefits of CIR. Murthy Law Firm founder and president, Sheela...
