The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is surely one of the more paper-intensive federal agencies, rivaling Congress and the Pentagon in its annual consumption of wood pulp. This annual paper consumption will drop soon - at least slightly - as DHS begins to phase in...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) published an interim final rule on May 20, 2010 that will raise application processing fees for several categories of nonimmigrant visas and adult border crossing cards (BCCs), and for certain Mexican-citizen minors who apply for BCCs.The fee hikes are...
A recent article on CNN.com reports that growing numbers of conservative evangelical church leaders are rallying to the cause of comprehensive immigration reform, at least partly in response to the passage of Arizona's controversial new immigration law. (See New Force for Broad Immigration Reform: Conservative...
A leading Republican Senator, Richard Lugar of Indiana, has proposed legislation that would give two-year visas to immigrant entrepreneurs who can attract at least $250,000 from U.S. investors to start companies here. (See Lugar Wants Citizenship Path for Entrepreneurs, by Maureen Groppe, Gannett Washington Bureau,...
It may be that truth can set you free, but it can come back to bite you if you aren't careful. This caveat runs counter to current trends that are breaching the longstanding walls between our public and private lives. One might call this the...
As we often have noted in this space, the immigration debate is only as good as the information that goes into it. In engineering circles, this has its own acronym: GIGO, which stands for "garbage in, garbage out." In the echo chamber of public opinion,...
Starting this month, USCIS will be issuing a new and redesigned permanent resident card - or "green card" - to those who qualify for new, renewal, or replacement cards. The new green cards incorporate several cutting-edge technologies, to facilitate quicker, more reliable authentication, and make...
There seem to be as many potential solutions to our immigration problems as there are interlocutors in the debate. Although we can't all agree on the remedies, much less the underlying diagnosis, there is widespread agreement that the U.S. immigration system is "broken." What people...
Baseball has a unique hold on the American imagination: sacrosanct in its way, and just short of being a national religion, it is the National Pastime and the Quintessentially American Game. Pundits of the Left and Right, arguing as they might about politics, will get...
Some weeks ago, when we still expected Senators Schumer and Graham to introduce a bipartisan immigration reform proposal, Senator Schumer quipped that all he needed was a second Republican to begin moving on a CIR bill. Then Senator Graham backed out, leaving not a single...
