Human Rights and Immigration Lawyer Contact Me
Tag: Obama administration
Keynote Speech at Hampshire College: “Crimmigration – We Are All Criminals”
For a primer background, see “But We Are Criminals: Countering the Anti-Racial Justice Framework of Immigration Reform” I received a call from my friend Farzana yesterday. Farzana has been in the country since she was 5 years old. She is Read More …
A Laundry List of What President Obama Can Do On Immigration
“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” -Arundhati Roy Ju Hong’s “yelling” to issue an executive order to stop deportations echoed across the country, and has sparked a series Read More …
Not One More Deportation
You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to Read More …
Growing Clash Between Those Who Want Deportations to Stop And Advocates for S.744
Aloha from Hawaii! It has been a while. While the Democrats continue to look for ways to use immigration reform as a way to win more House seats next year, immigration court backlogs have climbed to 344,230, an 85 percent Read More …
What Should Same-Sex Bi-National Couples Do Since Obama Is No Longer Defending DOMA?
So the Obama Administration is not going to defend the constitutionality of Section 3 of DOMA in courts. That is the section which limits the definition of marriage as that between a man and a woman. The lawyers and law Read More …