For decades, industrialized countries like the United States benefited from the international "brain drain," as the brightest and best talents from the developing world came here seeking opportunities that were unavailable in their home countries. In the event, many of these immigrants did not just...
Russell Pierce, the Arizona State Senator who gave us S.B. 1070, has launched another legislative barrage. Just as S.B. 1070 aimed to make local police into de facto immigration enforcement agents by requiring them to demand immigration papers from anyone they stopped who looked potentially...
On February 14, Secretary Janet Napolitano released the fiscal year (FY) 2012 budget request for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes three of the major agencies - other than the State Department - that deal with border security and immigration issues: U.S....
This week, an Arizona jury returned a death sentence for Shawna Forde, founder of the Minutemen American Defense group, for her role in the 2009 shooting deaths of Raul Flores and his nine-year-old daughter, Brisenia. (See Arizona Jury Condemns Anti-Immigration Activist to Death, Reuters, 22.Feb.2011.)...
This story is far from new, but the warning it contains bears repeating: think carefully about the contents of your electronic devices before you travel outside the United States with them, because you never know what might get searched at the border when you return....
As we reported last week, a new iPhone app called Smuggle Truck purports to satirize our broken immigration system, even while exploiting it for profit, with the object of the game to keep as many illegal immigrants as possible in the bed of a truck...
Notwithstanding recent rumors and hints and portents of a possible thaw in the frozen deadlock that comprehensive immigration reform has become, the real action in immigration policy is still on the enforcement side, and increasingly on the "wholesale" side - targeting employers - rather than...
As the first wave of baby boomers reaches retirement age, more families are beginning to confront the question of who will take care of them when they can no longer take care of themselves. For many Americans, the cost of nursing homes and other long-term...
The Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a non-partisan immigration think tank in Washington, recently released a study of a controversial immigration enforcement program commonly known by the section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that authorizes it - section 287(g). Under section 287(g), state and local...
In soccer, a player will be "red carded" - kicked out of the game, without a replacement - for using threatening or offensive language, conduct that’s considered beyond the pale of good sportsmanship and fair play. At times, one can't help wishing that similar sanctions...
