News Update - November 22, 2008Obama Set to Pick Moderate for Head of Homeland Security Along With His Moderates in the Immigration Policy Working GroupPresident-elect Obama is set to tap Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano
as his Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, which governs
22 agencies including U.S.C.I.S. and U.S.I.C.E. She is a moderate
extremely knowledgeable concerning border issues and has opposed
fencing the U.S.-Mexico border often saying that someone would find
a 51 ft. ladder if you built a 50 ft. high wall. The selection would
be in line with Mr. Obama's theme of appointing moderates in the
immigration area, such as Alexander T. Aleinikoff and Mariano Cuellar
for his immigration policy working group. Mr. Aleinikoff was formerly
General Counsel and Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs
at Legacy INS during the Clinton administration, and Mr. Cuellar
also served in the Clinton years at Treasury, has served on the
board of Asylum Access and testified before Congress on immigration
policy. Both Mr. Aleinikoff and Mr. Cuellar are graduates of Yale
Law School. Mr. Aleinikoff has been Dean of the Georgetown University
Law Center and Executive Vice-President of Georgetown University
while Mr. Cuellar is Professor and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
at Stanford Law School. † The author is a 26+ year practitioner of immigration law based in New York City. He was awarded the Sidney A. Levine prize for best legal writing at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1977 and has written extensively on immigration over the past years for the ethnic newspapers, World Journal, Sing Tao, Pakistan Calling, Muhasha and OCS. He has testified as an expert on immigration in civil court proceedings and was recognized by the Taiwan government in 1985 for his work protecting human rights. His article, "The Bush Temporary Worker Proposal and Comparative Pending Legislation: an Analysis" was Interpreter Releases' cover display article at the American Immigration Lawyers Association annual conference in 2004, and his victory in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in a case of first impression nationwide, Firstland International v. INS, successfully challenged INS' policy of over 40 years of revoking approved immigrant visa petitions under a nebulous standard of proof. Its value as precedent, however, was short-lived as it was specifically targeted by the Administration in the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004. ‡ This article © 2008 Alan Lee, Esq.
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