A public policy blog on America's dysfunctional immigration system
Economists talk about the moral hazard – the notion that people should not be free to violate principles of good faith and fair play, but instead should be held accountable for their mistakes and transgressions. As Wikepedia tells us (at least as of 9/25/08):
Moral hazard is the prospect that a party insulated from risk
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Bloomberg.com has posted a scary article on how America’s growing financial crisis might lower our nation’s appeal as a world financial center and repository of foreign investments. In a strange coincidence, Wall St. Journal immigration reporter, Miriam Jordan, reported today on the global relocation of people seeking a better, more prosperous life. Her article (“With…
Harry Shearer, the actor and radio host, has a regular feature on LeShow, his weekly radio program. With deadpan voice, and music and lyrics in the background (“I’m sorry; so sorry”), Shearer reads a slew of recent public apologies from the famous and infamous, including a number of government officials. I doubt that the…
The last few days I’ve been gnawed upon by the feeling that my recent postings on the unreliable words of USCIS and DOL left something important unsaid. The recanting of DOL and reneging of USCIS keep reminding me of my law school days as my classmates and I watched the daily unfolding of the Wategate…
There’s little wonder why confidence in government is at a low point. In a recent AAO decision, USCIS went out of its way to say that the public and the immigration bar should not be lulled into deceiving themselves that the agency will stand behind its public pronouncements:
[T]he legacy INS comments in the supplemental
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The Bishop of Providence Rhode Island, Thomas J. Tobin, and 15 pastors in his diocese may have hit upon a divinely-inspired strategy to prod the Bush Administration, in the sunset of its reign, into putting the kibosh on its aggressive immigration-raids enforcement policies. The strategy is conscientious objection, a principle that the Administration just endorsed…