U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) runs an enormous system of detention facilities to house the thousands of immigrants it takes into custody each year, for a variety of reasons, ranging from unauthorized entry into the United States, to assertion of an asylum claim, among...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on July 15th that the agency reached a major goal this year in granting all 10,000 of the available U visas to nonimmigrant crime victims who seek to remain in the United States. (See USCIS Reaches Milestone:...
Reasonable minds can differ on the origins and effects of - and possible solutions to - our broken immigration system, but some interlocutors in our national immigration debate have purer motives than others, and not everyone is completely candid about these motives. At times, beneath...
Mere politics sullied the purity of the turf during this year's All-Star Game, in Anaheim, California, as civil rights advocates, religious leaders, and even some of the players went on record in favor of boycotting baseball's 2011 All-Star Game, if it takes place as scheduled...
Be careful what you wish for, the saying goes; you just might get it. This old saw is especially germane to Arizona's S.B. 1070, the ill-starred attempt to regulate immigration on the state level, notwithstanding the federal government's exclusive jurisdiction over such matters. Arizonans who...
Less is more, Mies van der Rohe famously pronounced, trumpeting his allegiance to an austere minimalist aesthetic that, never quite caught on. Minimalism is back again, this time in legislative guise, among the immigration advocates who have been forced to make a virtue of necessity,...
Eight GOP Senators have written to President Obama seeking assurance that the White House will not take executive action to "unilaterally extend either deferred action or parole to millions of illegal aliens in the United States," in response to - perhaps in hopes of spreading...
As we have noted previously for MurthyBlog readers, the immigration debate is only as good as the information that goes into it. Some misconceptions, even outright fabrications, have gained a veneer of respectability by dint of sheer repetition. One piece of popular mythology holds that...
About 1.6 million Indian immigrants now live in the U.S., "making them the third largest immigrant group in the United States after Mexican and Filipino immigrants," according to a recent report by the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a non-partisan think tank. (See Indian Immigrants...
Pundits often refer to the months before an election as "the silly season," because the frantic pace of political campaigns seems guaranteed to generate at least a few memorable moments of unintentional hilarity or wish-I-hadn't-said-that political gaffes from candidates seemingly too exhausted to remember even...
