As MurthyDotCom and several major newspapers reported last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shut down Tri-Valley University, located in the San Francisco Bay area, alleging it helped foreign students to gain student immigration papers illegally. (See NewsFlash! ICE Raid at Tri-Valley University Impacts...
In recent days, Cairo, Alexandria, and other parts of Egypt have been rocked by massive demonstrations, demanding free and fair elections, an end to government repression, and other political and social reforms. It is too early to say how all this will end - whether...
Several hundred Indian students now face immigration proceedings, including possible removal (deportation), due to the massive immigration fraud that Tri-Valley University allegedly perpetrated, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. According to the Economic Times, the Indian Embassy is offering assistance to these...
It wasn't that long ago that the news outlets were full of stories about immigration raids, federal agents hawkishly swooping down on a chicken processing plant or a construction site, carrying off as many illegal immigrant workers as they could, starting massive deportation proceedings against...
Like other states in the industrial midwest, Michigan has seen more than its fair share of economic decay, beset by unemployment and the atrophy of the heavy industry that once thrived there. In some circles - one thinks of Michael Moore's films about the decline...
The annual green card lottery is a fixture of the U.S. immigration system, allowing up to 50,000 foreign nationals to immigrate to the United States on a diversity visa, if they come from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the U.S. and they...
Even amidst the steamy bloviation of our national immigration debate - which at times seems more concerned with partisan advantage than with problem solving - there are cool-headed and serious-minded policy analysts who continue crunching the numbers and tracking the economics of immigration in a...
After the calamitous bloodletting of the American Civil War, Congress faced the task of binding the nation back together, and ensuring - once and for all, most of them surely hoped - that states would no longer have the right to allow human beings to...
The Arizona state legislature whipped up a froth of controversy nationwide - not to mention lawsuits - when Governor Jan Brewer signed S.B. 1070 into law last April. As originally written, S.B. 1070 required Arizona police to question people about their immigration status whenever the...
Momentous changes have been in the works since November's mid-term elections swept Democrats from control in the House of Representatives, and chipped away at their Senate majority. The effects of these changes will begin to be seen this week, as members of the 112th Congress...
