I loved Stephen Colbert’s Republican solutions for alternatives to legalizing the illegal farm workers. No American will work in farms, and we wont legalize the Mexicans who actually work there. So:

1. We should grow fruits and vegetables that pick themselves— with the help of Fruit of the Loom Scientists
2. Stop eating fruits and vegetables— Which Americans have started doing already

In the same vein, I would like to add some Democratic Solutions to Professional Employment based visas, where it seems they have a vendetta againt Indian Computer Professionals.

1. Make the average Permanent Visa wait times for Indian and Chinese people to be 150 years. Dont extend their H-1B, they just need to go back to India or China and come back in 150 years

2. Stop programming office Computers—– go work in the farms instead. Kill two birds with one stone— no more Indian Computer professional, and no more illegal Mexicans either. Immigration problem solved.

3. Raise the taxes of the Indian and Chinese H-1B professionals to 200% of their income. Not only will we take care of border security (which we are now doing with the $4000/- per H-1B fees from Indian Companies), but we will also take care of the budget deficit with the Indian and Chinese money. Then we can give Cadillac health care to all those people who had stopped eating fruits and vegetables following Mr. Colbert.

For more information contact Houston Immigration Lawyer or Houston Immigration Attorney, Annie Banerjee

This blog is for humor purposes, there is no truth to it.

Read our lips, No new taxes whatsoever—– yeah the deficit, who cares, we just increase it and then blame it on Obama. As long as our white constituents don’t have to pay for the poor blacks and the Hispanics.

We will cut everything—- public education, food stamps, etc. But not the military. Need to keep fighting, “to keep America safe.”

Oh, I forgot, the other way to do this is to prevent the rise of Muslims. No new mosques. Actually we should infuse this fear of Muslims into our children too—– lets do a reverse jihad on the Muslims. Lets follow Texas’ lead and rewrite the history of the 11 to 15th Century. During this period the Christians were regrouping and making a grass roots revolution. We did not trade with the world to prevent the growth of those Muslims. We cut our spending and prayed in our monasteries instead.
Just like we should do now.

And of course one way to do this is to cut out the illegals. We should not spend on them. Follow Arizona. Those slimes will not vote for us if we grant them citizenship. Yeah, and kill those anchor babies as well. Then we don’t have to bother with changing our constitution to divest them of citizenship.

Written by Houston Immigration Lawyer or Houston Immigration Attorney, Annie Banerjee

My son recently joined medical school, and was given his first “patient” to diagnose. The students are graded not only on the correct medical diagnosis, but also on bed side manners. His “patient” (these are actually actors that med schools hire) presented herself with chest pain. After this experience my son asked me, whether if I was having chest pain, I wanted the doctor to say “everything will be alright” even though the doctor knows I may not. ie do I want a doctor to be sympathetic or do I want to hear the truth?

My answer to my son was that even though I don’t need the hand holding, because I am a very strong person, I’m sure most people do. ie, Hold their hand and break the bed news as gently as you can, but don’t hide the news.

Which is what a lot of unscrupulous lawyers do not do. I know many lawyers will promise clients the moon. Since I practice immigration law, I will keep my examples to immigration issues only.

When a client goes to a lawyer, a lot of lawyers lie—- no surprises here. “yes we can get that done”, “yes, we have done thousands of these.” These lawyers are very friendly, have the greatest bed side manners. Yet when they get the denials, they sound very sincere when they say, “i don’t know why CIS denied your case.” Any good lawyer knows what case is going to be approved and what case is going to be denied. Yet they do not refuse to take the case knowing they will get money to work for it.

Also just because a case can be filed, does not mean it should be filed. For instance, you can file a labor certification (PERM) for almost anyone. But if the next step, ie the I-140 does not go through, the PERM is useless. Same is true for certain family filings. Yet unscrupulous lawyers take the case, and the money to file the case.

Same is true for doctors. Both can be equally sweet and equally deceptive.

Yet clients, (and patients) choose doctors and lawyers by asking their friends, and by their professional’s bed side manner rather than objectively by their education and wisdom. If you want someone to hold your hands and cry with you, get a friend. If you want your doctor and lawyer to represent your interest, choose one who went to a good school, does not have any disciplinary violations, and is sincere in his efforts. Generally foreign doctors and lawyers are less qualified simply because its easy to get into law schools and med schools in most countries. In India for instance the top students are engineers. Lawyers and most people in Humanities are at the bottom of the IQ heap.

In the end you are a consumer, and you have to do your due diligence or be duped.

For more information contact Houston Immigration Lawyer or Houston Immigration Attorney, Annie Banerjee

Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act better known for its acronym, the dream Act, is again going to be debated as early as next week. The Democrats are going to append it to the Department of Defense Authorization Bill. The Dream Act is aimed at legalizing those children bought over illegally by their parents, have graduated high school and plan to attend at least a two year college or join the military. We educate these children, they are here illegally through no fault of their own, they studied, graduated high school, and in many instances college, and yet cannot work here legally. I know several Masters Degree holders who are illegal. They work illegally as clerks in convenient stores, no where realizing their potential. You would think that their plight will have non partisan support in the Congress. Yet this bill has not passed since 2001.

We pay for their education, yet we don’t employ them, so that they can pay taxes and be productive members of society. What’s tragic is that even though they fall in love and marry US Citizens, they still cannot get residency, because they “entered illegally.”

I really hope that the Senate and Congress will come together on this issue. But with the current Republican strategy of “just say no” and with certain members introducing such terms as anchor babies, I doubt anything will get passed. Another time their dreams will be shattered.

For more information contact Houston Immigration Lawyer or Houston Immigration Attorney, Annie Banerjee

On July 12, 2010, the summary deportations of Wayne Smith and Hugo Armendariz were determined to be illegal, with the United States government at fault. Houston-area immigration lawyer Annie Banerjee offers some pertinent commentary concerning inequities of media coverage involving this grave injustice.

On Dec. 27, 2002 and July 17, 2003, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) received petitions from the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), the law firm of Gibbs Houston Pauw, and the Center for Human Rights and Justice against the government of the United States on behalf of Wayne Smith and his children and Hugo Armendariz and his children, respectively, in relation to Mr. Smith and Mr. Armedariz’s deportation from the United States. According to the petitions, the State violated the alleged victims’ rights protected under Articles I (right to life, liberty and personal security), V (right to private and family life), VI (right to family), VII (right to protection for mothers and children), IX (right to inviolability of the home), XVIII (right to fair trial), and XXVI (right to due process of law) of the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man, ironically, in this instance, known as the “American Declaration.”

More than three years later, on July 20, 2006, the IACHR finally admitted the petitions. In both cases, the IACHR found the alleged victims’ petitions admissible with regard to potential violations of Articles V, VI, VII, XVIII, and XXVI of the American Declaration.

In the determination report filed by IACHR and published on July 12, 2010, it was stated that Messrs. Smith and Armendariz, both of whom were legal permanent residents of the United States, were subjected to deportation without permitting them to present a reasonable defense in administrative or judicial courts, including the following alleged internationally-required consideration of humanitarian equities to deportation: the alleged victims’ length of legal residency in the United States; the alleged victims’ family ties in the United States; the potential hardship on the family members left behind in the United States;  the alleged victims’ links with their countries of origin; the extent of the alleged victims’ rehabilitation and social contribution to the United States; any medical or psychological considerations; and the gravity of the alleged victims’ offense and the age when it was committed.

Both Messrs. Smith and Armendariz had been convicted of “aggravated felonies,” but the actual crimes of both were found to have been misdemeanors if charged under more reasonable prosecutorial conditions, in fact, Mr. Armendariz’s offense, an instance of shoplifting, had occurred when he was 13 years of age, well under the age of majority for such a crime if committed in the United States.

“What’s really amazing in these cases,” said Houston-are immigration lawyer Annie Banerjee, “is that these men were deported during a period of rabid anti-immigrant hysteria and that their cases – and their individual ordeals, as well as the hardships inflicted by the U.S. government on their families – were virtually ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, and in fact, even the well-deserved positive resolution of their cases as judged on their merits, received scant attention even from moderate voices in the U.S, media, such as Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow hosting programs on MSNBC, while more rabid “conservative” anti-immigrant voices such as Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh only singled them out prior to the more human resolution of their cases.”

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