The Murthy Law Firm is carefully following the developments in the Tri-Valley University case. We have been in close contact with high-level officials in both the United States and Indian governments, seeking to minimize the harm to Indian students who were caught up in this...
It is getting increasingly difficult to keep track of all the immigration bills now under consideration at statehouses across the country. Arizona may claim the dubious distinction of having done it first, but several other states - 37 at last count, according to ABC News...
For decades, industrialized countries like the United States benefited from the international "brain drain," as the brightest and best talents from the developing world came here seeking opportunities that were unavailable in their home countries. In the event, many of these immigrants did not just...
Russell Pierce, the Arizona State Senator who gave us S.B. 1070, has launched another legislative barrage. Just as S.B. 1070 aimed to make local police into de facto immigration enforcement agents by requiring them to demand immigration papers from anyone they stopped who looked potentially...
On February 14, Secretary Janet Napolitano released the fiscal year (FY) 2012 budget request for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes three of the major agencies - other than the State Department - that deal with border security and immigration issues: U.S....
Einstein famously said that imagination is more important than knowledge. Obviously, we need both, but in many educational systems, emphasis on rote learning - mere assimilation of facts - is crowding out essential lessons on critical thinking and creative problem solving. In this country, educators...
Attorney Sheela Murthy attended a meeting at the Embassy of India, Washington D.C., on March 2, 2011. Following is her report on the meeting and discussion.----------On March 2, 2011, I was joined by Aron Finkelstein, the Managing Attorney of the Murthy Law Firm, as we...
This week, an Arizona jury returned a death sentence for Shawna Forde, founder of the Minutemen American Defense group, for her role in the 2009 shooting deaths of Raul Flores and his nine-year-old daughter, Brisenia. (See Arizona Jury Condemns Anti-Immigration Activist to Death, Reuters, 22.Feb.2011.)...
This story is far from new, but the warning it contains bears repeating: think carefully about the contents of your electronic devices before you travel outside the United States with them, because you never know what might get searched at the border when you return....
As we reported last week, a new iPhone app called Smuggle Truck purports to satirize our broken immigration system, even while exploiting it for profit, with the object of the game to keep as many illegal immigrants as possible in the bed of a truck...
