If you're a seasoned observer of Capitol Hill, it probably comes as no surprise: less than a week after the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith (R-TX), released a bill to provide 55,000 green cards to foreign STEM graduates, the measure crashed and...
On Capitol Hill, the wrangling continues. Many lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree that we should make more green cards available to foreign students who complete U.S. graduate degrees in STEM fields - science, technology, engineering, and math. Despite broad agreement on the...
In August, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rolled out the application process for the new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This program allows certain undocumented immigrants, brought here as children, to live and work legally in the United States, on a two-year...
Last year, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program resettled more than 56,000 refugees in the United States - people seeking permanent shelter from persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. Although the U.S. government provides transition assistance...
Arizona's loud and peevish immigration saga continues, barely audible beneath the roar of election-year news coverage, but still there, nonetheless. Though its immigration story no longer dominates the news, there has been no shortage of developments in recent weeks. Far from being put off by...
It's long been known that poverty and desperation drive a good deal of illegal immigration to the United States. Although the numbers have been dropping with increased border enforcement, thousands still make the trek northward from Mexico and Central America, hoping to get into the...
Our hearts go out to the families, friends, and colleagues of Ambassador John Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith, and the two other U.S. Embassy staffers who were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Bengazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012. Ambassador...
In the 1967 film, The Graduate, Ben Braddock is just back from college, wondering what to do with his life. A family friend tells him there's a great future in plastics, and he really should give it some thought. Better advice would have been: get...
We are pleased to announce that Adam Rosen, a Member of the Murthy Law Firm and Supervising Attorney in the Special Projects Department, has published an article in the Summer 2012 Newsletter of the Immigration and Naturalization Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section...
Earlier this summer, the Obama administration unveiled the "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" program ("DACA"), which will allow undocumented immigrants, who were brought here as children, to receive a two-year deferral of removal, if they meet certain application criteria. [See DHS Update on Deferred Action -...
