Carl Shusterman Immigration Lawyer Blog

Big Government Comes to Arizona

Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) must be rolling in his grave. The conservative Republican senator from Arizona ran for President in 1964 on a platform condemning “Big Government”. As a kid, I read Goldwater’s “Conscience of a Conservative” and came away with a strong conviction that America was founded on the principle of individual freedom, and that no […]

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Padilla – Bring Back the JRAD?

Thanks to a healthy dose of jet lag (My wife and I just returned from walking on the Great Wall of China a few days ago!), I finally found the time to read the Supreme Court’s new decision in Kentucky v. Padilla. Although I was impressed that Justice Stevens, in the majority opinion, found that y criminal […]

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Good News For Filipinos

May 2010 promises to be a very good month for persons born in the Philippines who wish to immigrate to the U.S. through their relatives. Of course, when you are born in a country with some of the longest waiting times in the world for family-based immigration, “good” is a relative term. Want to immigrate through […]

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Newsletter US Immigration Update April 2010

Volume Fifteen, Number Four Special Message: With increased privacy and security concerns around the inbox, mostly due to viruses and spam, delivering our monthly newsletter to your e-mail address presents many challenges. Sometimes you don’t receive our newsletter. However, if you add our e-mail address to your address book or safe list, this should insure […]

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Shades of Grey

This evening, I watched a debate on television between a proponent and an opponent of comprehensive immigration reform aka CIR. The proponent emphasized that we need CIR not for the benefit of the undocumented, but because it would stimulate the American economy. The opponent said that this amounted to “open borders” and that our immigration system was already […]

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They Shoot Speeders, Don’t They?

The Highway Patrol officer pulls over a speeder on the freeway. It’s a young woman in a Red Camaro. “Do you know how fast you were  going?”, he questions her. “I don’t know, officer”, she stammers, “I’m late for a job interview, and I wasn’t paying a lot of attention. I’m really sorry.”  “Not as sorry as I am” replies the officer, […]

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Newsletter US Immigration Update March 2010

Volume Fifteen, Number Three Special Message: With increased privacy and security concerns around the inbox, mostly due to viruses and spam, delivering our monthly newsletter to your e-mail address presents many challenges. Sometimes you don’t receive our newsletter. However, if you add our e-mail address to your address book or safe list, this should insure […]

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Immigration Reform in 2010

As Rodney King famously remarked, “Why can’t we all get along?” As Democrats and Republicans in Congress have spent the past year beating each other up regarding the health care bill, do we want the same thing to happen with immigration this year? At the moment, President Obama cannot even find two Republican senators out of 40 […]

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Lack of Checks and Balances in Removal Proceedings

The concept of separation of powers, and of “checks and balances”, is as old as Ancient Greece and the Roman Republic. Our Founding Fathers modeled the U.S. Constitution on principles derived from Enlightenment philosophers like Montesquieu, who believed that “the judiciary was generally seen as the most important of powers, independent and unchecked…” He specified that “the independence of the judiciary has […]

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Reforming the Immigration Court System

On February 2, a report entitled “Reforming the Immigration System: Proposals to Promote Independence, Fairness, Efficiency, and Professionalism in the Adjudication of Removal Cases” was presented to the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration. The report, which is almost 500-pages long, was prepared on a pro bono basis by the law firm of Arnold and Porter. Those who are interested […]

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