President Obama and the Department of Homeland Security, according to press reports, are undergoing a review of hundreds of thousands of pending removal cases, people in immigration court facing possible deportation from the United States, to determine cases that are not worth pursuing. I have commented about this in a movie, here. One concern I express in the movie is that the heightened focus on removing aliens with criminal convictions in their past, particularly long-term permanent residents with decade-old convictions,…

Here is a new test for policemen in Arizona. Governor Jan Brewer is free to take the test too. Governor and officers, please send me your answers as soon as possible because I really want to know the correct answers to better advise my clients. The question: Which of the following are illegal aliens who must be arrested by an Arizona policeman or the policeman risks being sued for failure to do his job?

I resist partisanship in this blog. I try to comment on events in a factual and unemotional way and avoid attacking people’s motives, just sometimes their logic.  But this report about my congressman is just too weird to ignore. Enjoy it.  Randy “Duke” is probably rolling over in his cell. Maybe he didn’t mean it the way it came out. At least he did not say he has illegal-dar. Posted April 22, 2010.