Three pointless things that should stop.

Monday, February 24th, 2014

Immigration law, as immigration lawyers (and their clients) say often, is quite complex. There are a lot of hoops people have to jump though to get a benefit. Forms on top of forms asking the same things over and over. Fees on top of fees. Petitions, applications, security checks, medical exams, interviews, investigations, verifications. With all the stuff that is deemed necessary, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State should, one would think, want to eliminate pointless…

Some considerations if we amend the 14th Amendment.

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

The way U.S. citizenship law works is that being born here usually makes one a citizen. As the Fourteenth Amendment stated, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” This was a change from Article I, Section 2, of the Constitution, which states, “Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this…

Obama eligible for presidency on two counts

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

You have probably heard about it. President Obama is not entitled to be President because he was not born in the United States. Not because Hawaii was not a state yet, as Hawaii was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959, and Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 (I know, younger than me, too), but because he was actually born abroad. Not that there is any proof he was born abroad, but because of some concerns about…