IndUSb Business Journal recently named Attorney Sheela Murthy, founder and president of the Murthy Law Firm, one of the 100 Most Influential Entrepreneurs and Professionals for her contributions to the South Asian business community in the United States. IndUS is a national business newspaper, read...
Less is more, Mies van der Rohe famously pronounced, trumpeting his allegiance to an austere minimalist aesthetic that, never quite caught on. Minimalism is back again, this time in legislative guise, among the immigration advocates who have been forced to make a virtue of necessity,...
Eight GOP Senators have written to President Obama seeking assurance that the White House will not take executive action to "unilaterally extend either deferred action or parole to millions of illegal aliens in the United States," in response to - perhaps in hopes of spreading...
As we have noted previously for MurthyBlog readers, the immigration debate is only as good as the information that goes into it. Some misconceptions, even outright fabrications, have gained a veneer of respectability by dint of sheer repetition. One piece of popular mythology holds that...
About 1.6 million Indian immigrants now live in the U.S., "making them the third largest immigrant group in the United States after Mexican and Filipino immigrants," according to a recent report by the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a non-partisan think tank. (See Indian Immigrants...
Pundits often refer to the months before an election as "the silly season," because the frantic pace of political campaigns seems guaranteed to generate at least a few memorable moments of unintentional hilarity or wish-I-hadn't-said-that political gaffes from candidates seemingly too exhausted to remember even...
On June 11, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a proposal to increase the filing fees for a variety of immigration forms. (See Proposed Rule: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Fee Schedule, 75 Fed. Reg. 33445, 11.Jun.2010.) The proposal has met with mixed reviews....
One would think they had learned their lesson with Arizona Senate Bill 1070. The same geniuses who brought us the "Show-me-your-papers!" legislation are at it again, thinking up new ways to say "I hate you" to millions of undocumented immigrants in Arizona and around the...
The war of words reached all the way up to the White House during a recent meeting between President Obama and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who met to discuss border enforcement and other immigration matters - including the infamous new Arizona law that requires police...
Comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) has been elusive as a white whale in the open ocean. The Obama administration, and many Congressional Democrats, are in hot pursuit, chasing what may turn out to be little more than whitecaps on heaving seas. The CIR outline circulated several...
