It’s a Monday morning. I’m groggily sipping my usual espresso as I skim my emails before getting down to the business of immigration law. An email from a stranger leads me to a page of five finalists in a video contest on immigration in America. The contestants’ films lift my spirits. One talks of
March 2008
Departing USCIS Commissioner Gonzalez in High (But Unjustified) Dudgeon over N.Y. Times Editorial
By Angelo A. Paparelli on
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USCIS Director Emilio Gonzalez took umbrage last week with a March 19 New York Times editorial (“Citizenship, Thwarted”) published the day before:
My posting today demonstrates to the more than 700,000 newly naturalized citizens that this country embraces free and open debate. It is a shame, however that a newspaper like the New
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“Hurry Up And Let Them In” in Forbes.com Raises Anti-Immigration Hackles
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Judging from the response, this blogger’s commentary today in Forbes.com annoyed more than a few opponents of legal immigration. One writer thought the piece was funny, suggesting that my commentary earned me a spot on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show. Others suggested a pecuniary interest in that more work visas mean more work for immigration lawyers.…
End Immigration Arrogance: It’s Time to Put Out a New Welcome Mat
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Angelo A. Paparelli and Ted J. Chiappari published in the New York Law Journal February 25, 2008
When the subject of immigration policy has been raised in the stump speeches and debates this election season, the candidates (particularly the anti-immigration candidates who, for want of voter support, are no longer in the race) have focused…