01 Apr 2011

Remembering Our Shared Humanity

If you believed the hype emanating from anti-immigrant fear-mongers, you might think that every immigrant was Latino, every Latino was undocumented, and that all of them had criminal records and was intent to do us harm - or at least to sponge government benefits. These...

31 Mar 2011

Immigration Reform: Still on Obama’s Agenda

Comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) continues to be one of the major political IOUs still outstanding, two years and counting into the Obama administration. As a candidate, Obama promised to introduce a comprehensive immigration bill in his first year, a promise still not kept, as of...

24 Mar 2011

Help for Japan and Japanese Nationals Overseas

The Japanese government, with the help of international aid, is struggling to restore a sense of normalcy after the recent earthquake and tsunami left thousands homeless, and a death toll that continues to grow. The international community is rallying to provide humanitarian assistance to disaster...

23 Mar 2011

Rhetoric Watch: Say What?

As we have noted before in the MurthyBlog, there are times when our national conversation on immigration sounds less like a policy debate than a barroom brawl. People hurl insults and accusations like barstools, heedlessly saying things they may not mean, but may come to...

17 Mar 2011

State Immigration Bills: Utah’s Unique Approach

In recent months, several states have ventured onto federal turf, passing immigration legislation of their own, in the hope that local remedies will succeed where Congress fears to tread. For the most part, these state measures are all about enforcement, allowing local police to "step...

15 Mar 2011

Promoting Immigrant Entrepreneurship

For some reason, our national discourse on immigration tends to steeply discount the wealth of benefits we receive from the energy, brains, and brawn of immigrant workers, and that is unfortunate. If our perceptions are slightly askew from reality, a possible explanation may go something...

10 Mar 2011

WSJ: Senators Call For Action on Illegal Student Visas

The Murthy Law Firm is carefully following the developments in the Tri-Valley University case. We have been in close contact with high-level officials in both the United States and Indian governments, seeking to minimize the harm to Indian students who were caught up in this...