Immigration 'Language is the Skin of the Soul'
As 1930s radio shows and 21st Century talk-radio shock jocks remind us, words -- perhaps even more than images -- carry evocative power, the power to incite passion. Fernando Lázaro Carreter, the...
View ArticleImmigration Thought Leadership - Needed Now More Than Ever
Writing for The Hill, pundit Kathy Kemper just published a thoughtful piece on "Debt and immigration." In it she contrasts American policy-makers' obsession with the financial Sword of Damocles, set...
View ArticleSuffer the Children: Immigration Heartlessness and Hypocrisy
A recent televised debate revealed an immigration fault line within the GOP. Texas Governor Rick Perry's many challengers for the Republican presidential nomination railed against his decision to...
View ArticleTelling Immigration Stories: It's Not Just about Code Sections
From the first prehistoric evenings sitting around campfires, humans have been telling stories. Heroic myths, fairy-tale fables, oral histories -- all have been seared into heart and memory through the...
View ArticleNew York Times and Ann Coulter Refuted: Immigrant Rights ARE Civil Rights
Today is the federal holiday of Columbus Day. In ironic recognition, President Obama will stop by a remote California village to dedicate the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument, memorializing the...
View ArticleArcing toward Immigration Justice: "Illegals" No More
All of us at times become dispirited. As I've viewed immigration over the last 40 years, passionate advocates have come and gone, fortunate foreign citizens have been granted green cards and then...
View ArticleNo Longer Illegal, But Still An Alien
[Blogger's Note: Our guest blogger today is Careen Shannon, who is Of Counsel at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in...
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