Immigration Blog

The people in Congress and the courts who created this mess no doubt were acting in what they thought was the best interests of both the UACs and the nation. But their decisions are having deleterious consequences, both for the children involved and for our system of justice as a whole.

Thousands of cases are heard by immigration judges each year that don't even need to be presented to the courts. Congress has already legislated expedited ways of handling those cases.

The Border Patrol is, after all, just about the only immigration agency that copes with what might be called "outdoor technology" — the others deal with computers, the internet, and other indoor devices.

A court case alleging ethnic discrimination by the Indian outsourcing giant Tata Consulting Services Ltd, the nation's second largest user of H-1B workers, shows that such discrimination is not only illegal, it can be harmful to the bottom line of the discriminator.

When a major newspaper publishes an opinion piece from an ostensibly authoritative source who reduces a fraught policy issue to tendentious shambles, that paper does a disservice to its readers and to the policy debate. The hatchet job recently published by the Washington Post regarding the most prominent immigration restrictionist organizations should not have passed editorial muster.

If the per-country cap were to be lifted, then for the next 10 years, nearly all of the green cards in the ordinary professional worker category would go to citizens of India.

A Muslim cult, using our immigration laws, and our public school funds, to advance its own exotic cause is both hard to believe, and very real.

Now that the Ninth Circuit has finally issued its decision, the path would appear to be clear for the Supreme Court to hear the case. It is time for the Supreme Court to act on this issue, once and for all.