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...
On June 11, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a proposal to increase the filing fees for a variety of immigration forms. (See Proposed Rule: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Fee Schedule, 75 Fed. Reg. 33445, 11.Jun.2010.) The proposal has met with mixed reviews....
One would think they had learned their lesson with Arizona Senate Bill 1070. The same geniuses who brought us the "Show-me-your-papers!" legislation are at it again, thinking up new ways to say "I hate you" to millions of undocumented immigrants in Arizona and around the...
The war of words reached all the way up to the White House during a recent meeting between President Obama and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who met to discuss border enforcement and other immigration matters - including the infamous new Arizona law that requires police...
Comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) has been elusive as a white whale in the open ocean. The Obama administration, and many Congressional Democrats, are in hot pursuit, chasing what may turn out to be little more than whitecaps on heaving seas. The CIR outline circulated several...
As we have noted in recent postings, the Major League Baseball Players' Association has condemned Arizona's new immigration law, S.B. 1070, which is set to take effect at the end of July. The Player's Association didn't call for a boycott outright, but did promise to...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has introduced a new version of Form I-766, the Employment Authorization Document, which henceforth will have a machine-readable area on the back of the card. USCIS began issuing the new EADs in May, as part of a continuing...
The war of words over Arizona's new immigration law continues unabated. In all of the noise and bombast that have surrounded the measure, perhaps we should recall the crux of the measure. The new law expressly requires state and local law enforcement officials to ask...
A popular bumper sticker reads, "Paddle faster: I hear banjos!," alluding to the 1972 film, "Deliverance," in which city boys come to ruin on a canoe trip into the back country of rural America. The river turns out to be a dangerous place.One could hardly...
During her husband's presidency, former First Lady Laura Bush mostly kept her distance from the sound and fury of the political arena, apparently preferring to stay above the fray and concentrate on special projects like literacy promotion. In those days, Mrs. Bush kept her own...
