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...
Attorney Sheela Murthy is not only one of Maryland's leading entrepreneurs, she also is among its leading philanthropists. Murthy's uncommon success in integrating smart and purposeful philanthropy with a thriving law practice has been recognized once again, this time by Baltimore SmartCEO magazine, required reading...
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...
This week marks sixteen years since Attorney Sheela Murthy began her solo practice in U.S. immigration law and hung out her shingle on MurthyDotCom. In 1994, the newness of the Internet was both daunting and seductive. There was no manual for figuring out how to...
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...
As we have noted in earlier postings, GOP support for comprehensive immigration reform has waned to the point that Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and John Kyl (R-AZ) have made clear that they do not intend to support CIR in the near future. Anti-immigrant anger is...
