There was immigration-practice-related developments in the main stream news this week. First, the President announced that any executive orders he will make about immigration law will be after the November (2014) elections.  Also, it was reported that the immigration court backlog has reached 400,000. The popular wisdom is that the President needs to issue executive orders to placate the pro-immigration forces that are part of his base. As the President cannot run for president again, why he has to keep…

President Elect Obama’s pick to be Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, was caught in a mini-scandal last week over employing a housekeeper whose employment authorization had apparently lapsed. This is reminiscent of other prominent people involved or interested in becoming involved in government getting involved in similar immigration-related mini-scandals, including Republicans, such as Mitt Romney and Bernie Kerik, and Democrats, such as Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood. Some wonder if this has something to do with the proclivity of…