Immigration is no more a difficult process as it once used to be. Years back, this process was so complex that hardly one could imagine the process would get complete in one year or so. There are manyIndians who have even dropped their immigration plans, owing to the intricacies involved. But today with the availability of immigration services in India the number of people writing their success stories are also growing in number. Read More..

“Rules are rules. The law is the law,” said prosecutor Brandon Long in a closing statements as he spoke for the government in the case against Witness Against Torture activists. Frida Berrigan’s recent column relates the details of the anti-torture activists trial and convictions for speaking out in the US House of Representatives as they petitioned their government to oppose the NDAA. Read More..

Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was back in the United States on Friday and at the center of an international mystery over how a minor could be sent to a country where she is not a citizen.Her family has questioned why U.S. officials didn’t do more to verify her identity and say she is not fluent in Spanish and had no ties to Colombia. While many facts of the case involving Jakadrien Lorece Turner remain unclear, U.S. and Colombian officials have pointed fingers over who is responsible. Read More..

A judge dealt another setback to Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration enforcement efforts by barring sheriff’s deputies from detaining people based solely on a belief that they’re in the country illegally. Read More..

The immigration website takes a look at the philosophical aspects of immigration reform between conservatives & libertarians. More specifically those libertarians that believe in open borders:
Yet, even if we were to concede that there’s no firm historical or Constitutional foundation for this nation’s current open borders policies, can it not be argued that there is a compelling moral case for the views espoused by those at the Wall Street Journal editorial board, Cato Institute, Reasonoids, and other trendy, beltway cosmotarians? You would definitely think so if you took their arguments at face value. The notion that we have no moral basis for barring certain immigrants from entry into the United States is certainly widespread in certain libertarian circles, but I don’t believe that makes the idea, ipso facto, libertarian. Julian Simon, in a 1998 essay published in the Journal of Libertarian Studies, articulated the perspective felt by many that individual autonomy takes precedence over other “public” goods, including our national borders. In an anarcho-capitalist reality, nation-states would not exist, therefore deciding who should or should not be admitted to your nation would be a moot point. Read More..

The U.S. immigration debate has generated a lot of heat over the years, but not necessarily a lot of light. Americans have been talking about the topic for centuries without coming to any firm conclusions. Indeed, the United States has been debating immigration since even before its founding—probably longer, even, than Americans have been self-consciously reminding themselves that they are, after all, a nation of immigrants. Read More..

Now before I say anything else I just want to say one thing – the number of times I hear friends and family say ‘I don’t do politics’ and then proceed to complain about fuel prices, jobs, immigration, education and all manner of other issues, I have to tell you if you ‘don’t do politics’ how can you have the gall to complain about any of these things!? because you know what THAT ISPOLITICS!!! Read More..

Before I was introduced to voluntaryism I believed that illegal immigration was a huge problem for the people of the United States. However, I now understand that all of the alleged problems of illegal immigration disappear when we take government out of the equation. Read More..

Today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from the Ninth Circuit decision of April 11th holding the then new Arizona immigration statutes unconstitutional due to federal preemption. Of some interest, Read More..

The Department of Immigration and Citizenship issued the following media release: Read More..