Vivek Wadhwa, a prominent academic and frequent commentator on high-tech immigration, recently appeared on PBS to talk about why America needs more foreign STEM workers. [See The Immigrant Brain Drain: How America is Losing its High-Tech Talent, PBS Newshour, The Business Desk with Paul Solman,...
Earlier this year, we noted with interest that Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, had waded into the immigration debate by starting his own lobbying group, FWD.us, to push for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). [See Mark Zuckerberg: Immigration Activist, MurthyBlog, 05.Apr.2013.] He did so tentatively,...
For supporters of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR), passage of this landmark legislation is more a hope than an expectation at this writing. Everything depends upon the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold the majority, albeit a fractious majority, riven by internal conflict between its traditional...
Official Washington likes nothing better than a good political horserace, but these are few and far between in the summer doldrums of a non-election year, so it was like manna from heaven when Janet Napolitano announced her impending resignation - effective this September - from...
It came as no surprise in mid-July when the City of Detroit announced it was filing for bankruptcy. It had been a long time coming.In its glory days, Detroit was the symbol of American industrial might and the economic engine of the Midwest. Demand for...
Comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) is not quite circling the drain yet, but there's no doubt it's in troubled waters. Unless a large contingent of House Republicans suddenly change their minds and decide they can live with immigration reform, down it goes. The chance of this...
In case you missed the Christian Science Monitor's series on immigration and assimilation, it's well worth reading, because it puts a human face on immigration issues that all too often are debated in the abstract. The series delves into the complex terrain of immigrant identity...
As we noted in this space last week, Janet Napolitano announced that, September 2013, she will step down from her post as head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the national security mega-agency that was created in the wake of the September 11, 2001...
Top-level executives and government leaders from India and the United States gathered on July 11th for the U.S.-India Business Council's (USIBC) annual Leadership Summit, held at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington D.C. The Murthy Law Firm was a proud sponsor of this event.The...
The Fourth of July Congressional recess has come and gone, and the House of Representatives has returned to a steamy Washington summer and some contentious legislative battles, including the one over comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). Because the Republicans hold a substantial majority in the House,...
