Rachel Browning’s Legal Blog

Today, the new Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will reportedly be having an important meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), one day after testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee for the first time as the head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  Presumably, the CHC will have questions about her [...]

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            A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about President Obama’s issuance of an Executive Order calling for the closure of the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where approximately 245 individuals remain,  all of whom were brought there and held as “enemy combatants” by the Bush Administration.  But what has yet to be determined, [...]

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            Earlier this week I wrote about the proposed Sanders/Grassley Amendment to the stimulus package prohibiting financial institutions who receive TARP funding from hiring employees under the H1B program.  In my opinion, and the opinions of other immigration practitioners and members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the amendment would have no impact on the [...]

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For the past couple of weeks, the country’s attention has been focused on the efforts of the Obama Administration and both houses of Congress as together they attempt to rehabilitate the faltering economy through new legislation.  Each has its own version of a stimulus plan that it contends will ensure job growth, invigorate the credit [...]

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While the debate over the economic stimulus package has made its way to the Senate, and the public has begun to wonder if any of President Obama’s other cabinet appointees have also had trouble remembering to pay their taxes, one major piece of legislation did manage to make it to the President’s desk for signature [...]

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