Immigration One Year Later
June 5, 2009 by Charles Kuck
Filed under Immigration
A year ago I began my journey as AILA President with a speech at the annual conference in Vancouver. I focused my words on five principles in which I believe, God, Family, the Constitution, Service, and Litigation. Today is my last day as AILA President. As I reflect on the last year, I see that it was my belief in these five principles which carried me through what has been an amazingly difficult year.
From the economic disaster that started in the fall and continued through the spring of this year, to an election that has promised change, but which has not yet had time to fulfill all its promise, to the impending departure of two of AILA’s long time and key leaders, we have seen our fair share of challenges and obstacles.
BUT, we stand at the dawn of a new day. We believe that with the key personnel the Obama administration has begun to put into place at the Department of Justice, USCIS, ICE, CBP, and within the White House that we will see aggressive and positive administrative change and reform. For example, just today we have seen the outrageous Mukasey Compean decision reversed by Attorney General Eric Holder. I believe this action is just the beginning of a restoration of constitutional due process principles for which we have long been clamoring.
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