The Rich Democratic Attorney v. The Poor Immigrant

In this editorial, ICIE founder Ralph Isenberg addresses the recent moves by both the President and Congress on the immigration issue.

Once again, immigration reform has suffered yet another setback. The real question is whether the Congress or the President ever intended to pass meaningful immigration reform in the first place. I am of the opinion that our present immigration laws works just fine with some adjustment to so-called "reforms" during the Clinton era.

Those that say the Republican leadership shot down immigration reform to get at President Obama are not correct. President Obama, by law, has very little to do with the immigration process and the Congress knows this. What the House accomplished in this most recent round was denying the liberal Democratic lawyers that largely make up the legal segment of the immigration field the ability to gain a windfall profit from the immigration issue.

Immigration attorneys and non-immigration attorneys turned immigration attorneys were setting up shop from the Obama announcement. The Republicans in Congress figure the best way to maintain the control in Congress is to make sure Democratic attorneys have no areas where they can obtain windfall profits and pickup votes from sympatric voters.

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The Isenberg Center for Immigration Empowerment (ICIE) is "a resort of last hope” for foreign nationals. People come to ICIE because the system has failed, and as a result, someone is facing a wrongful deportation. Since their founding in 2011, ICIE has helped hundreds of deserving families, and provides all services pro-bono. The organization deals with the entire family unit, from teaching the basic fundamentals behind community service, to English education, to individualized counseling to build positive mental health. ICIE has established a fund to underwrite operating expenses, including the legal fees incurred by foreign nationals in the immigration court process. To support this fund, click here to make a donation by PayPal.