Angelo Paparelli

  

Categories: International Affairs, US Foreign Policy, Surveillance, Outsourcing, Government, Politics/law/government, Jobs, and Homeland Security

Tags: homeland, illegal, immigration, immigration, immigration, legal, security, and visas

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Oct 27, 2008 (3 posts)

Sep 29, 2008 (11 posts)

Dec 03, 2007 (10 posts)

Last week, a client died unexpectedly, and two government officials tasked with administering the immigration laws retired after long careers of honorable service.  The client, a renaissance man of many talents, was remembered by a throng of mourners representing a wide cross-section of the community — academia, local government, the arts, family and friends.  I saw him two weeks [...]

This month, the Task force for New Americans (chaired by the Secretary of Homeland Security) issued a generally commendable document, Building an Americanization Movement for the Twenty-first Century, A Report to the President of the United States from the Task Force on New Americans. The report talks about the importance of Americanization, which it defines [...]

These days, the news on immigration seems like one large and scary technology mashup. The evidence is everywhere: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) publishes a final rule that authorizes the taking of DNA specimens from persons merely detained (not necessarily found liable) for alleged civil violations of the immigration laws. DHS reports to Congress on its [...]

The Wall Street types came first, and save for the unsaved Lehman Brothers, bailout delectables were generously doled out.  Next came the hungry insurance behemoth, AIG, the large and small banks, the credit-card lenders and the makers of consumer loans. Each voraciously consumed their bailout largess.  Last, came the Big Three U.S. automakers, the UAW, and with them in tow, [...]

The two-year presidential campaign created new legions of policy wonks.  Now, with the Bush-to-Obama interregnum in full swing, the wonks have turned into an avid audience observing the jo-ha-kyū movements of Kabuki theatre as performed by the new administration-in-waiting.  On the immigration front, the thoughtful and deliberate character of the President-elect is on full, if subtle, display.  [...]

I spent this week on a three-city speaking tour in Asia with a delegation from the County of San Bernardino (California) Economic Development Agency. Our purpose was to promote foreign investment into the county and outline the advantages of the EB-5 (Employment-Creation) immigrant investor visa category. Speaking in Seoul, Shanghai and Hong Kong to enthusiastic [...]

What message is conveyed when, in less than 24 hours after the election of Barack Obama, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Julie L. Myers, immigration raider extraordinaire, announces her resignation?  What does it signify when two days after the vote, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) rushes out a self-congratulatory press release that [...]

There is a troubling development in the land of immigration.  The lessons of history have been forgotten.  The immigration bureaucrats, immigration enforcement officials, and collusive politicians have been engaged in mischief, and a gullible media swallow the Kool-Aid.  The public is then misled.  What’s behind these bold assertions?  For the full story, see the long version of an [...]

Sen. Barack Obama recently chided his running mate, Joe Biden, for engaging in “rhetorical flourishes” after the Delaware Democrat predicted that hostile foreign elements would test the mettle of a President Obama in the first six months of his term. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, should receive a similar upbraiding for the ill-considered remarks [...]

The final presidential debate is now history. An allegedly unlicensed (illegal?) plumber nicknamed Joe (whose real name is Sam) received top billing, having been mentioned over 25 times in the 90-minute encounter. Less than a week ago debate moderator, Bob Schieffer of CBS, hinted that immigration — a topic missing in action in the first [...]