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11 Jun 2010

Baseball Boycott vs. Arizona Immigration Law

As we have noted in recent postings, the Major League Baseball Players' Association has condemned Arizona's new immigration law, S.B. 1070, which is set to take effect at the end of July. The Player's Association didn't call for a boycott outright, but did promise to...

10 Jun 2010

Arizona Immigration Law: The War of Words Continues

The war of words over Arizona's new immigration law continues unabated. In all of the noise and bombast that have surrounded the measure, perhaps we should recall the crux of the measure. The new law expressly requires state and local law enforcement officials to ask...

31 May 2010

Dueling Boycotts?

A popular bumper sticker reads, "Paddle faster: I hear banjos!," alluding to the 1972 film, "Deliverance," in which city boys come to ruin on a canoe trip into the back country of rural America. The river turns out to be a dangerous place.One could hardly...

29 May 2010

Laura Bush Has Concerns About Arizona Immigration Law

During her husband's presidency, former First Lady Laura Bush mostly kept her distance from the sound and fury of the political arena, apparently preferring to stay above the fray and concentrate on special projects like literacy promotion. In those days, Mrs. Bush kept her own...

26 May 2010

State Department Raises Fees for Many Nonimmigrant Visas

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) published an interim final rule on May 20, 2010 that will raise application processing fees for several categories of nonimmigrant visas and adult border crossing cards (BCCs), and for certain Mexican-citizen minors who apply for BCCs.The fee hikes are...

23 May 2010

Conservative Evangelical Leaders Rallying to the Cause of CIR

A recent article on CNN.com reports that growing numbers of conservative evangelical church leaders are rallying to the cause of comprehensive immigration reform, at least partly in response to the passage of Arizona's controversial new immigration law. (See New Force for Broad Immigration Reform: Conservative...

21 May 2010

A Path to Citizenship for Entrepreneurs: GOP Senator

A leading Republican Senator, Richard Lugar of Indiana, has proposed legislation that would give two-year visas to immigrant entrepreneurs who can attract at least $250,000 from U.S. investors to start companies here. (See Lugar Wants Citizenship Path for Entrepreneurs, by Maureen Groppe, Gannett Washington Bureau,...