It may be that truth can set you free, but it can come back to bite you if you aren't careful. This caveat runs counter to current trends that are breaching the longstanding walls between our public and private lives. One might call this the...
As we often have noted in this space, the immigration debate is only as good as the information that goes into it. In engineering circles, this has its own acronym: GIGO, which stands for "garbage in, garbage out." In the echo chamber of public opinion,...
Starting this month, USCIS will be issuing a new and redesigned permanent resident card - or "green card" - to those who qualify for new, renewal, or replacement cards. The new green cards incorporate several cutting-edge technologies, to facilitate quicker, more reliable authentication, and make...
Donna Mayne started her career in the advertising industry as a proofreader and typesetter. "This was all before the Macintosh came in and changed everything. Typesetting was an art, and you had to really pay attention to the details; you had to manually space the...
There seem to be as many potential solutions to our immigration problems as there are interlocutors in the debate. Although we can't all agree on the remedies, much less the underlying diagnosis, there is widespread agreement that the U.S. immigration system is "broken." What people...
When you are really good at what you do, others try to figure out how you do it, in hopes that mimicry will also bring them success. After all, as the old adage says, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." [Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon,1820.]...
Baseball has a unique hold on the American imagination: sacrosanct in its way, and just short of being a national religion, it is the National Pastime and the Quintessentially American Game. Pundits of the Left and Right, arguing as they might about politics, will get...
Some weeks ago, when we still expected Senators Schumer and Graham to introduce a bipartisan immigration reform proposal, Senator Schumer quipped that all he needed was a second Republican to begin moving on a CIR bill. Then Senator Graham backed out, leaving not a single...
I am honored and delighted that a colleague and friend whom I respect and admire has been nominated by President Obama for a position in the nation's highest court, as U.S. Supreme Court Justice. I have had the opportunity to get to know Dean Kagan...
Appearing on the Sunday news program, NBC's Meet the Press, Attorney General Eric Holder said the federal government may sue to challenge a new Arizona law that requires state and local police to question people about their immigration status whenever they have a "reasonable suspicion"...
