LEGALIZING UNAUTHORIZED IMMIGRANTS: EU vs. US

As we begin yet another year disillusioned at the charade of comprehensive immigration reform in the United States, perhaps we might, in the proud tradition of Thomas Jefferson, gaze across the Atlantic for relative consolation. There, we might hope to find in, say, the 22,000 migrant deaths at the European Union's southern border since the year 2000 (as compared with "only" 6,000 deaths at the US-Mexico border) a reminder--albeit morbid--of why, despite its shortcomings, America is still the world's beacon: "a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home."

But, then, what should we make of the fact that EU nations have actually legalized far larger proportions of their unauthorized immigrant populations than the United States in recent decades?

RECENT ARTICLES ON ASYLUM

The following articles were published in the past few months on NOLO.COM:

• Qualifying for Asylum Based on Persecution for Your Race (available here)
• Qualifying for Asylum Based on Persecution for Your Ethnic Group (available here)
• Qualifying for Asylum Based on Persecution for Your Religion (available here)
• Qualifying for Asylum Based on Persecution for Imputed Political Opinion (available here)
• Can Asylum Applicant Claim Discrimination as Persecution? (available here)

RECENT ARTICLES ON REFUGEE STATUS

The following articles were published last month (in February 2014) on NOLO.COM:

• How to Get a Referral to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program? (available here)
• Can a Refugee or Asylee Lose Status Once Conditions Improve in Home Country? (available here)
• How Can Refugee or Asylee Help Family Come to the U.S.? (available here)
• Can refugee brother and sister come to the U.S.? (available here)
• Can refugee apply to adjust status after one year has passed? (available here)

GPI LAW IS MOVING!

Effective in 2014, GPI Law is moving its main office from Downtown Baltimore, MD to Downtown Miami, FL. Our new office is located at the Miami Center, near Biscayne Bay.

Appropriate measures have been taken to minimize the impact of this relocation on our services and obligations to current and past clients in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.

For more information, visit GPI Law's website at www.gpilaw.com, or contact Amien Kacou by email at akacou@gpilaw.com or by phone at (305) 647-6227.

ARTICLE ON GLOBAL MIGRATION REFORM

GPI LAW attorney Amien Kacou has a new article in the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. The article, titled "The Case for Treating Migration as Trade," presents arguments in favor of liberalizing and multilateralizing global migration on the model of global trade.