As an immigration law firm, we support comprehensive immigration reform. However, the present immigration reform proposals under discussion do not address a number of the essential issues which will need to be solved in order to genuinely reform immigration in the United States. The legislative proposals being discussed are heavy on ideology and light on truth, skirting important details of the system, like the appeals court, that have to be change. They don’t deal with the underlying issues with the system, and seem to be attempting to patch this up rather than implementing a full overhaul.
Why Our Immigration Law Company Is Hesitant About This Immigration Reform
Quantity of Government Agencies Involved
We say that’too many cooks spoil the broth,’ and this might be an appropriate saying for the present immigration system too. There are just too many government agencies involved in immigration, which makes for quite a complex and confusing system.
Add to the U. S. Department of State (charged with overseeing the U.S. embassies and consulates), the U.S. Department of Justice (governs the Executive Office of Immigration Review), along with the U.S. Department of Labor (which ensures US immigration laws do not compromise fair labor standards). While inevitable, a multi-agency project leads to our next concern which doesn’t appear to be dealt with by present laws – the absence of accountability.
Lack of Deadly
As an immigration law firm, we work with all of the US Government agencies involved and we see too little accountability as being a significant problem in the computer system. A prime example is that the U.S. Embassy, whose consular officers’ conclusions aren’t subject to appeal or judicial review. The following example is the simple fact that an appeal from an immigration judge’s decision can literally take decades. As there are a lot of agencies involved it’s easy to point fingers when something goes wrong and hard to take responsibility for cracks in the system.
Issues Associated with Processing and Information Sharing
Put simply, the manner in which instances flow through the immigration system must be fixed. There has to be consistency in adjudications and predictability in adjudicatory decisions at each level. Interminable delays shouldn’t be tolerated and appeals should not take years. These tips could be the beginning points to what would be a top-to-bottom overhaul. Only if modifications are made to tackle these essential areas of concern will true and comprehensive immigration reform occur.
tamanduadigital 