18 Nov 2010

USCIS Improves Information Provided to New Citizens

Even as some legislators prepare to roll up the welcome mat, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced an initiative to give all new citizens a standard U.S. Citizenship welcome packet when they take the oath of citizenship. According to a message from...

17 Nov 2010

Local Immigration Laws: Trend and Counter-Trend

Local immigration laws seem to be all the rage. Although it received most of the blame - or credit - for the recent flurry of home-grown immigration laws, passed by states and localities, Arizona is far from the only jurisdiction to do so. You may...

16 Nov 2010

The Sobering Costs of Mass Deportation (Removal)

The most ardent immigration restrictionists like to entertain fantasies of a massive government roundup, to arrest every last illegal immigrant and summarily deport (the correct term now is "remove") them. Such fantasies gained remarkable currency in the recent election season, migrating from the outermost fringes...

15 Nov 2010

CIR Down, But Not Out?

There seems an endless number of political obituaries mourning - or celebrating - the demise of any hope for a comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill, with immigration hawks descending on Congress in a matter of weeks. According to some commentators, though, rumors of the death...

12 Nov 2010

Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, Olympic Park?

Don't look now, Silicon Valley, but your foreign competition is catching up - and not just India, as it turns out, but the United Kingdom. According to a report last week in The Guardian, British Prime Minister David Cameron plans to build an extensive new...

11 Nov 2010

Election Recap: What Now for CIR?

The only thing we can say for sure is that last week's mid-term elections decisively shifted the balance of power toward the Republicans. The GOP wrested control of the House of Representatives from Democrats with a new and substantial majority, while whittling the Democratic Senate...

08 Nov 2010

NYT: DREAM Act Vote, Coming Right Up!

The New York Times reports that Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, has promised to bring the DREAM Act to the floor of the Senate for a vote some time after election. (See Reid Promises Immigration Vote After Election, by Ashley Southall, New York Times, The...

05 Nov 2010

The Immigration Solution: Import Nobel-Caliber Minds

America has a long history of attracting the best and brightest thinkers, researchers, and innovators to our shores - but our immigration policies are making it harder to continue this trend, warns a recent article in The American Spectator, by Ryan Young and Alex Nowrasteh....

04 Nov 2010

President Obama’s Visit to India: IT Issues on Agenda?

As the weather turns cold in Washington, and the political climate turns positively icy on Capitol Hill, President Obama will no doubt be relieved to be in sunnier climes, when he arrives in India later this week. The President's discussions with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...