Canadian-born Laurene Ross competed for Team USA in the Alpine Skiing Ladies Downhill this week and tomorrow will begin in the Super-G event. Ross made her World Cup debut in 2010 and has been ranked near the top internationally since. …
Well, I guess it doesn’t matter that lots of highly respected legal experts and even USCIS (in a confidential memo leaked a few years ago) have given their blessing to some pretty broad executive actions to offer relief to people …
Months ago talk of a discharge petition circulated among pro-immigration folks. Basically, House Democrats and allied Republicans could force Speaker Boehner to bring the Senate immigration bill to the floor for a vote if a written petition signed by a …
OK, I’ll admit that I love Olympic curling. I do have to re-learn the rules every four years, but once you’re watching for a little while, you get hooked. I’m reminded a bit of the shuffleboard we used to play …
The US men’s hockey team in Sochi has its first match on Thursday against Slovakia. And playing for Team USA is Cam Fowler, a Canadian-born defenseman. Cam currently plays for the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks and is in his fourth …
I mentioned a while back that 16 years ago, I started what has now been called the first lawyer blog on the Internet. I had already had a web site that started in 1994 (my site begins its third …
I continue my series of posts on honorees of the Vilcek Foundation, this time another winner of their prestigious Biomedical Science prize. Here’s what the foundation had to say about British immigrant Thomas M. Jessell:
…Dr. Jessell, the Claire Tow
The Vilcek Foundation has released its list of 2014 winners of its honors for biomedical science and design. There are four winners who all be writing about over the next few days. I’ll start with Neri Oxman of Israel. According …
OK, I’ve been wanting to resume this feature for a long time and am giving it a go. That’s because there was major news involving an immigrant. And I’ve been wanting to write about immigrants on the US Olympic team …
Speaker Boehner today released a document providing additional insight in to their recently released GOP standards for immigration reform. The document addresses some of the objections that many in the GOP may have to a reform bill. For starters, it …