The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a case challenging the constitutional validity of Arizona's infamous immigration law, commonly known as SB-1070, a state law that purported to give greater control over immigration enforcement to state and local police in Arizona....
Our main conference room is now graced by a stunning wall-sized photograph of Lady Liberty, artistically rendered in sepia tones, with the closing line of Emma Lazarus's immortal poem, The New Colossus, printed across it: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" It is a fitting...
Seventy years after the fact, it still ranks among the most appalling events in U.S. history: on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which allowed military authorities to round up 120,000 JapaneseAmericans and lock them into muddy, fly-blown internment camps...
In the absence of Congressional action to reform our nation's immigration system, many state legislatures are trying to fill the void with immigration measures of their own. This is true in Maryland as well, where the General Assembly is poised to consider legislation to require...
First the good news: the immigration system is turning in a more business-friendly direction. The catch? The arc of change is long and slow.Last May, on a trip to El Paso, TX, President Obama gave a major speech on immigration, pressing Congress to enact the...
We have pointed this out before: international visitors bring a huge amount of revenues to this country - $134 billion in 2010, according to the U.S. Travel Association (USTA) - expenditures that directly support about 931,000 U.S. jobs, with total wages of $24.7 billion in...
The legal skirmishing has gone on for months, ever since Arizona's controversial immigration law, popularly known as S.B. 1070, was signed into law back in April 2010. You may recall that a year later, in April 2011, a federal appeals court upheld a lower court...
The 19th-century military strategist Carl von Clausewitz observed that war is politics by other means - cautioning that war can't and shouldn't be undertaken except to advance a legitimate and carefully-considered policy objective. This was a radical idea at a time when absolute monarchs might...
As President Obama is no doubt tired of hearing, he promised to tackle immigration reform within his first year in office. For a variety of reasons, that promise remains unfulfilled - the financial collapse and its aftermath, two wars, a string of natural disasters, the...
On October 28, 1886, President Grover Cleveland stood before a crowd of dignitaries on Bedloe's Island, in New York harbor, to dedicate what was to become an iconic symbol of human striving for freedom: the Statue of Liberty. President Cleveland said Lady Liberty's "stream of...
