Friday, December 01, 2006

"GOOD" USCIS WEB SITE STILL ONLINE 

In case you viewed with horror the new USCIS web site at http://www.uscis.gov, you may be relieved to know the USCIS has left up its old web site at http://149.101.23.2/graphics/index.htm. USCIS noted that the site was going to go down on November 30th, but we were pleased to see it was still up this morning. Hopefully, the USCIS folks who came up with the new web site have been slapped and told to go back to the drawing board and the old site will be brought back. Remember New Coke?

# posted by Greg Siskind @ 7:42 AM

Thursday, November 30, 2006

AP: REID MOVES IMMIGRATION ONTO DEMOCRATS '07 AGENDA 

While immigration is not on the Democrats First 100 hours issue list, Democratic leaders are finally starting to make it clear that immigration will not be ignored in the new Congress, despite some media reports questioning the commitment of Democrats to change. Harry Reid tells the AP's Spanish service that immigration will be dealt with by the Democrats. But hopes of quick passage of legislation are likely to be dashed as Reid again reiterates that the issue is complicated and needs close consideration.

# posted by Greg Siskind @ 2:46 PM

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

LOVELY 

Not for the squeamish. Take a look at this story from the NY Daily News. Brooklyn , NY judge John Wilson has a charming new children's book called "Hot House Flowers" that warns our impressionable youngsters about the dangers of illegal immigration. According to the Daily News, the plot involves "beautiful flowers that wither when dandelions sneak into their greenhouse."

This judge's book is offensive on so many levels. He's a judge in a city largely comprised of immigrants. His book's plot reminds me of Nazi ideology regarding Aryans and the impure. And the book is aimed at children. This guy needs to go.

# posted by Greg Siskind @ 12:30 AM

TECH NOTES BLOG DEBUTS 

Many readers of this web site may know me as someone who writes and speaks regularly about immigration law. What you may not know unless you're an immigration lawyer and a member of either the American Bar Association or the American Immigration Lawyers Association, is that I also regularly write and speak on law office technology subjects. The web site on which you are reading this blog post was one of the very first law-related web sites on the Internet when it went online in 1994. I have co-written a best selling book on the Internet and the legal profession. I'm a regular speaker at the ABA 's annual Techshow. And I'm a technology columnist for Immigration Law Today, the magazine of AILA.

This month I was writing a column for ILT on the subject of blogs and decided to create a new blog to go with that column. Tech Notes is my new blog for my tech musings. I'll be posting on law office technology subjects, new web sites, cool gadgets and more. I invite you to visit the new blog and give me feedback on what you like and don't like.

# posted by Greg Siskind @ 9:27 PM