Gotta hand it to Obama. He’s one helluva predictor. At the beginning of the summer he said this about taking executive action on immigration: “We know the opponents of reform are going to do everything...
Standing in line in Staples (not a corporate plug yet…but we are open to them…call us) buying a few last minute things for my daughter’s first day of third grade I could not help but...
Congressman Louie Gohmert is a thoughtful and insightful man on most issues, but on immigration he is our era’s Socrates…ok, not sure if Socrates was real thoughtful or insightful but it’s the only name I...
The immigrant community has been hopeful that President Obama would roll out some sort of executive legalization for about, oh, 7 years now. Meanwhile the Obama administration has been promising bold and progressive measures if...
Tamara Scott, an RNC committee woman from Iowa brought up a point that no one has been able to refute and that is that some or many of these children that are presenting themselves on...
Often times we bring up the Constitution and due process when speaking about removal defense in immigration law. So many of those times they are simply a punch line to a joke or the set...
I have to admit an obsession and that obsession is making fun of Steve King and his now famous cantaloupe quote. For all of you who are puzzled about what I am talking about, please...
To say the The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck inspired me to be an immigration lawyer may be a little too simplistic. It seems that my life has been guiding me to this profession...
Sundays have always been a time for relaxation and reflection for me. Yes, there’s the looming shadow of
next week and all the responsibility it will bring, but there’s a stillness and sanctity in the calm before the storm.
I’ve been challenged by Matthew to read The Grapes of Wrath, and so I’m sitting down to do just that. For Matthew, this was the book that inspired him to practice immigration law, but more importantly to fight for the rights of the downtrodden. So I’m curious, what things, be they books, movies, professors, friends, or just personal experiences, have inspired you the most? Why do you do what you do, whatever that may be?
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