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[Blogger’s Note: Today’s guest posting on immigration dysfunctionality offers a view on pop culture. The parenthetical “(REALLY!?!)” in the title — inserted as an editorial comment by the blog’s usual author — suggests the smarmy skepticism of an Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers riff on Saturday Night Live. The Haloween-themed guest post is by…

Much like the drunk who looks near the street lamp for a lost key because that’s the only place where there’s light, House and Senate conferees have granted a three-year extension of life support to the still-tottering E-Verify system — the only legit e-game in town for confirming employment eligibility. Congressional gamblers also double-downed on…

[Blogger’s Note: This blog on dysfunctionality in the world of U.S. immigration law and policy welcomes principled and thoughtful commentary by guest writers. Today’s guest post is by Karin Wolman, a highly regarded New York immigration lawyer with an expertise in immigration issues affecting artists, entertainers and the venues where they perform.]

U.S. Citizenship…

History teaches us a tried-and-true, gumshoe-inquisitor’s method of uncovering scandal. As memorialized in the 1976 film, All the President’s Men, former FBI agent, Mark Felt, unmasked as Deep Throat of Watergate fame, explained the approach to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward:

Deep Throat: Follow the money.

Bob Woodward: What do you

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The immigration news lately for the Department of Homeland Security has been decidedly downbeat:

  • The GAO issues a scathing report on the DHS border fence initiative.
  • DHS settles a complaint that attacked longstanding and deplorable immigration detention conditions in the basement of the Los Angeles federal building.
  • The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race,Ethnicity

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I’ve railed repeatedly in this blog about the abhorrent tendency of federal immigration agencies to make sweeping changes in law and procedure merely by issuing easily-repudiated press releases and policy memoranda. A recent policy memorandum issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) illustrates just how much damage can ensue when bureaucrats pass rules…

try { _uacct = “UA-10608603-1”; urchinTracker(); } catch(err) {}Rarely do we outsiders hear the voice of government authority utter candid and intensely-felt views, unfiltered by in-house spinmeisters. Surprisingly, my recent post, “Ignorance of Immigration Reality,” evoked just that. It unleashed a nether-worldly response from the sass-talking spirit of an anonymous immigration official, “Federale.” …