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No more “Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” but “Common Sense Immigration Reforms.”

November 11, 2012

As the prospects of serious immigration reform have exploded over the past week, we propose a change to how advocates of immigration reform call it. For years, we have called it comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). ...

Supreme Court Argument in Chaidez v. United States

November 2, 2012

So I went up to the Supreme Court yesterday to hear argument in Chaidez v. United States, No. 11-820. Chaidez concerns the straightforward question whether the Court’s decision in Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct....

Time to go, Sheriff Joe!

October 3, 2012

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet Paul Penzone, a Phoenix police officer for the past 21 years, who is running for Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. Now, ordinarily, I don't have a lot of...

Oh No, he didn’t! Romney endorses anti-immigrant wingnut Steve King.

September 10, 2012

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of67SW_r2VU] On Friday, Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney endorsed Steve King (R-IA) for another term in Congress. King, who once compared selecting immigrants to dog breeding, represents the worst of nativist sentiment and ...

Meet Sandra Arboleda

September 4, 2012

Benach Collopy is starting a new series to introduce our friends to our staff. While lawyers claim all the glory and publicity, the reality is everything attorneys do is made possible by an amazing staff...

Shenandoah- A Film

August 10, 2012

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/43903604 w=500&h=281] SHENANDOAH- TRAILER- A FILM BY DAVID TURNLEY from David Turnley on Vimeo. This fall, filmmaker David Turnley will release the film Shenandoah about the murder of undocumented Mexican immigrant Luis Rivera by...

In Other News: Syrian Kurd Obtains Asylum

August 5, 2012

The violence in Syria has increased in recent weeks – government forces pushed insurgent bands out of Damascus, the capital, and battled for Aleppo, the country’s commercial hub – and world leaders such as Kofi...

10 Things We Know From the New Guidance Released By DHS on Deferred Action Today

August 3, 2012

The long-awaited conference call and release of materials regarding DREAM Act deferred action finally occurred today. While there are many questions left about the process of deferred action for certain undocumented youth, we learned a...

Her name is Mother of Exiles

May 14, 2012

"...Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand/A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame/Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name/Mother of Exiles." (from The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus) For Mother's Day this year,...

Why I am supporting the President’s re-election

May 7, 2012

I do not intend to give a comprehensive discussion of the Presidency of Barack Obama. I am only writing on the one issue that I have true expertise on: immigration. From all of the articles...

Hello world!

January 6, 2012

Welcome to Lifted Lamp, a blog authored by Benach and Thomas Ragland, immigration partners at Duane Morris. The goal of this blog is to provide commentary, analysis and opinion regarding legal, political, economic and cultural issues...