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...
Appearing on the Sunday news program, NBC's Meet the Press, Attorney General Eric Holder said the federal government may sue to challenge a new Arizona law that requires state and local police to question people about their immigration status whenever they have a "reasonable suspicion"...
High-technology companies depend heavily on the H1B visa program to secure the science, technology, engineering, and math specialists they need to keep their firms on the cutting edge. The stakes are high for these companies, in the ongoing debate over comprehensive immigration reform; they are...
There has been no shortage of rhetorical excess in the national debate on immigration reform, and in recent months, spurious claims and tendentious spin-mongering have come to seem like just another part of the process, par for the course. So much of the debate has...
The king is dead; long live the king! For much of the past century, manufacturing was king in America, and American manufacturing ruled world markets; but ever since the economic slowdowns of the 1970s, pundits have fretted about the deindustrialization of America, and conventional wisdom...
First off, there were the demonstrations. Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets in cities across the country, protesting Arizona's new immigration law and demanding that Congress make comprehensive immigration reform a top priority. (See Protesters Nationwide Call for Immigration Overhaul, by Teresa...
Let's review the recent history again, shall we? Last December, Rep. Luis Gutierrez introduced CIR-ASAP, a comprehensive immigration reform bill, in the House of Representatives, with support from 90-odd members of the House. For members of the House who were anxious about their prospects in...
It is often said that it's an ill wind that doesn't blow some good to somebody. In this case, Arizona's new and draconian immigration law may fan the embers of comprehensive immigration reform and turn up the heat on politicians who, up to now, have...
On April 23rd, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law a highly-controversial measure making it a crime under state law for undocumented immigrants to be present in Arizona. As the New York Times reported, "proponents and critics alike said [this] was the broadest and strictest...
Tax day has come and gone, leaving some of us to anticipate a juicy refund, and others, still smarting from the check written to cover taxes still owed for 2009. Most of the media's attention focused on the protests by TEA party activists - whose...
