There are many reasons that every American should care about immigration reform, but perhaps none more compelling than this: we all have to eat, and our food supply is heavily dependent upon the immigrant laborers who bring in the harvest. A recent study released by...
Once again, Murthy Law Firm founder and president, Sheela Murthy, has been listed among the top immigration lawyers in the country - and in the world! Who's Who Legal has included Murthy in its 2013 edition of Corporate Immigration, a prestigious and well-respected directory of...
Most of the public debate over immigration reform has ignored its impact on a key sector of the U.S. economy: travel and tourism. This, despite the fact that travel and tourism "comprise the largest service-export industry in the U.S., setting a record $165.6 billion in...
As the former House Speaker, Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, famously said: all politics is local. With that in mind, the White House is making a full-court press to show the positive local impact of the Senate comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill - the bill it...
Shortly before Congress high-tailed it out of Washington for the August recess, two of the Obama administration's point people on comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) held a nationwide teleconference with business leaders to discuss the economic benefits of CIR. Murthy Law Firm founder and president, Sheela...
Vivek Wadhwa, a prominent academic and frequent commentator on high-tech immigration, recently appeared on PBS to talk about why America needs more foreign STEM workers. [See The Immigrant Brain Drain: How America is Losing its High-Tech Talent, PBS Newshour, The Business Desk with Paul Solman,...
Earlier this year, we noted with interest that Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, had waded into the immigration debate by starting his own lobbying group, FWD.us, to push for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). [See Mark Zuckerberg: Immigration Activist, MurthyBlog, 05.Apr.2013.] He did so tentatively,...
Murthy Law Firm founder and president, Sheela Murthy, is the featured Member of the Month in the Maryland Chamber of Commerce's Member Spotlight, in recognition of her outstanding contributions as a leader of the Chamber, and her phenomenal success as an entrepreneur. [See Member Spotlight:...
For supporters of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR), passage of this landmark legislation is more a hope than an expectation at this writing. Everything depends upon the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold the majority, albeit a fractious majority, riven by internal conflict between its traditional...
Official Washington likes nothing better than a good political horserace, but these are few and far between in the summer doldrums of a non-election year, so it was like manna from heaven when Janet Napolitano announced her impending resignation - effective this September - from...
