A public policy blog on America's dysfunctional immigration system
Has it come to this? Foreseeable panic spreads when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers enter neighborhoods near schools. City and school officials in Oakland and Berkeley California have their hands full calming the frayed nerves of children in panic.
When will ICE learn to temper its power with common sense? America has many…
Yesterday, New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein put a light on the shocking underbelly of immigration in America. Her Pulitzer-worthy article revealed a tragic and still largely untold story of the government’s stone-cold indifference in the unknown events leading to the death of Boubacar Bah, a tailor from Guinea who overstayed his visa. How could…
Our immigration policy hurts more than helps. Just one example is the way we treat incoming foreign students. Dr. Allan E. Goodman, President/CEO of the Institute of International Education, made the point vividly in recent testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology (Subcommittee on Research and Science Education):
We can all imagine how
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You don’t often see business leaders participate in a day meant to memorialize worker solidarity. Here in Southern California, however, the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration raids have caused the unimaginable to happen. A growing chorus of opposition to immigration raids is now joined by the The Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and political…
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…
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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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.…
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…
Commentary: The Lowly Form I-9 Gets a Low-Level Makeover By Ted J. Chiappari and Angelo A. Paparelli – New York Law Journal
As of Dec. 26, 2007, all employers must use the updated Form I-9, which the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published in November. In use since 1986, the I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, …
You Can Find Immigration Lawyers in the Strangest Places: Angelo Paparelli Weighs in on Subprime Mortgage Crisis in Quote for The New York Observer on December 11, 2007
Addressing the economic subprime mortgage crisis by way of “picket wielding demonstrators” was all but ignored by spectators walking by one block north of the New York…