The news from south of the border has been getting steadily worse, it seems. Violence is rampant, as drug lords compete for dominance of the highly-lucrative drug trade with the United States. Kidnappings are commonplace, and gruesome assassinations have become a fact of everyday life...
Last Thursday, President Obama signed into law the Travel Promotion Act of 2009, a measure designed to boost the U.S. economy and promote job creation by increasing international tourism to the United States. It is specifically aimed at reversing the long downward trend in the...
With spring training underway at ballparks all over the sunny south, baseball fans are champing at the bit, awaiting the first crack of the bat on Opening Day. With less than a month to go before the season opener, major leaguers are working hard to...
Among the nominees for Best Feature Documentary at the 2010 Academy Awards was a film called, Which Way Home. The story chronicles the lives of several immigrant children as they make their way across Mexico on a freight train called "The Beast." Among the immigrants...
The Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, recently released a report showing that the estimated number of illegal immigrants living in the United States has declined for the second straight year. According to DHS, the number of unauthorized residents in the U.S. plunged...
If you listened to the shouting of the nativists and xenophobes in the United States, you might believe that no immigration is good immigration, and that America would be altogether better off without immigrants. Here is a cautionary tale for the anti-immigrant fear mongers: if...
A recent posting on the MurthyBlog cited reports that an increasing number of Chinese investors are seeking green cards for themselves and their family members through the EB5 investor visa program, which requires applicants to invest at least $500,000 in a U.S. business, and create...
Fear has been among the most persistent and nettlesome obstacles to reform of our immigration system - fear stoked by popular misconceptions about immigrants and their impact on the economy and society of the United States. One especially persistent myth is that immigration leads inexorably...
As reported in the MurthyBlog last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitians living in the United States, allowing them to remain here for the next 18 months without fear of deportation, provided that they submit a...
Is CIR DOA? In last week's State of the Union address, President Obama focused most of his speech on his plans to address the nation's ongoing economic woes, devoting a scant couple of lines to immigration reform, saying: "...
